Originally Posted by
photojojo
I'm having a weeks long spirited discussion with a grad school friend of mine and I'm struggling to find statistics for how full Concorde flights were between JFK and LHR/CDG. Does anyone know if this on record anywhere and/or if you were around at the time and able to fly on it, can you estimate the passenger loads?
You piqued my curiosity. I found this in a
US Congressional Research Service report on-line (they are citing a 1994 article in the Washington Post):
Filling the seats on Concorde flights with paying customers was not easy. Concorde tickets were generally priced at about twice the regular first-class airfare on a comparable subsonic flight. For example, in 2003, a round trip across the Atlantic on the Concorde cost £8,000, equivalent to about $15,475 in 2017 U.S. dollars, almost twice the first-class ticket price on a Boeing 747.11 Once the attraction of novelty wore off, the airlines found it difficult to fill the seats, often flying at less than half capacity.12