Originally Posted by
spotwelder
Part of the shuttle promotion was the ability for BA to put random aircraft, even Concorde, on the services...
This always got the media attention. The actual Concorde sectors flown were generally training runs they would have been doing anyway (when they commonly went from Heathrow to Shannon and back). It was classically done the week that competitor British Midland started their "Diamond Service" in the cabin, full meals for all, on the Glasgow run, when BA put Concorde on one of the rotations that came into Glasgow right when the B Mid opening press conference was taking place.
Guess what made its way into all the newspaper pieces the next morning.
The fastest flight time I know of was 24 minutes at Mach 0.88 in the Trident.
Not so much a Gripper after all, then.