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Old Aug 5, 2015 | 3:41 am
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Originally Posted by scillyisles
The seats shown are very early Concorde seats covered in fabric with the striped pattern. The film was made in 2000 and these seats had been long replaced on BA's Concordes with the Blue leather versions. So he was not on a flying BA Concorde.
I believe the seats on the Brooklands Museum Concorde are these older fabric seats.
This is completely incorrect.

The blue leather Concorde seats were introduced in 2001 with the return to flight.

The seats BA were flying up until the grounding in July 2000 (and presumably Snatch was filmed in 1999/2000 if released in 2000) were the following



If you look at the centre armrest, this is the armrest you can see in the clip referenced above (look for the metal 'lip' at the end of the armrest, next to Avi's sleeve.)
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