Had the goal of doing, but doing on miles -- and so, for some time, I switched (as much as I could while remaining *A G) from flying *A to AF .....just as I reached enough miles, and I mean *just* (maybe 2 days after), AF Concorde service was canned ;(

Boy was I pissed......

For a while, I hoped that sir Branson was going to do something with the Concordes, but alas.....

Every time that I drive from home to CDG, I drive by a grounded concorde, standing there looking all sad and wrong -- that bird is ment to fly, and when it does, man is it beautiful. No other aircraft comes close.

At the Paris airshow just after the Concorde service was canned, I remember that there was a "funeral march" for the Concorde: one was being taxied across the tarmac at Le Bourget Airport, and everybody just silently followed with bowed heads. I had heard no mentions of this nor seen it on the program, so it seemed spontaneous - but it likely wasn't, at least not by the organizers.


Sighs, 'xcuse me while I go whipe my eyes....