--- title: "When did Concorde last fly?" description: "A British Airways flight from New York to London, then a final ferry flight to Bristol, 24 October 2003, with the last flight of all on 26 November 2003." url: https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/concorde/ site: "At One Place" --- # When did Concorde last fly? **When did Concorde last fly?: 24 October 2003, with the last flight of all on 26 November 2003** A British Airways flight from New York to London, then a final ferry flight to Bristol Concorde crossed the Atlantic in about three and a half hours against seven or eight for a subsonic aircraft, and it has not been replaced. The 2000 Paris crash was the trigger but not the cause: the economics had been marginal for years, sonic booms had barred it from overland routes, and after 2001 transatlantic premium traffic collapsed. No commercial supersonic passenger service has operated since. - **What:** A British Airways flight from New York to London, then a final ferry flight to Bristol - **When:** 24 October 2003, with the last flight of all on 26 November 2003 - **Category:** Technology that stopped - **Could this change?:** Yes. This streak could end, and if it does this page becomes a historical note rather than an answer. ## Technology that stopped | Question | When | | --- | --- | | When was the last Boeing 747 delivered? | 31 January 2023 | | When did Microsoft Office last change its default font? | 2023 | | When was the last VCR manufactured? | July 2016 | | When was the last telegram sent? | 15 July 2013 | | When did the last typewriter factory close? | 2011 | | When was the last roll of Kodachrome developed? | 30 December 2010 | | When did analogue television end in the United States? | 12 June 2009 | > This page gives a date and never a "years ago". These pages are built as static files, so a computed interval would freeze at build time and quietly become wrong — which on a reference site is worse than making the reader do the subtraction. ## Common questions ### When did Concorde last fly? 24 October 2003, with the last flight of all on 26 November 2003 — A British Airways flight from New York to London, then a final ferry flight to Bristol. ### What happened? Concorde crossed the Atlantic in about three and a half hours against seven or eight for a subsonic aircraft, and it has not been replaced. The 2000 Paris crash was the trigger but not the cause: the economics had been marginal for years, sonic booms had barred it from overland routes, and after 2001 transatlantic premium traffic collapsed. No commercial supersonic passenger service has operated since. ### Could it happen again? Yes. This is one of the entries where the streak could plausibly end, which is stated on the page rather than left implied. ## Related pages - [When was the last Boeing 747 delivered?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/boeing-747/) - [When did Microsoft Office last change its default font?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/office-default-font/) - [When was the last VCR manufactured?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/vcr/) - [When was the last telegram sent?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/telegram/) - [When did the last typewriter factory close?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/typewriter-factory/) - [When was the last roll of Kodachrome developed?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/kodachrome/) - [When was the last Boeing 747 delivered?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/boeing-747/) - [When did Microsoft Office last change its default font?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/office-default-font/) - [When did the London Underground last gain a line?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/london-underground-line/) - [When were the SI base units last redefined?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/si-base-units/) - [When was the last leap second added?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/leap-second/) - [When was an element last added to the periodic table?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/new-element/) - [Everything, most recent first](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/) ## Sources - Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (https://www.wikidata.org/) [CC0 1.0]