Apart from fortunately flying five trans-atlantic services with Concorde (in the days when several of my flights had 35 passengers on board!), I also managed one of the shortest flights ever - Farnborough to Heathrow!

At the end of a long day at the Farnborough Airshow, British Airways kindly invited some of their corporate customers a "lift" back to Heathrow on Concorde. What a chic way to depart an airshow! The flight took about 35 minutes, as we went down towards the South Coast, turned back towards Dover and came in from the East, right across London to touch down on runway 27L. It was lots of fun.

My best day was a day-trip to JFK to sign a contract and shake a few hands. Up early, on the 10:00 a.m flight, into JFK where BA gave us a meeting room, signed the agreement, spent a very quick 30 minutes with my parents who had come in from the shires to say hello, jumped on the afternoon flight back and landed around 10:00p.m., having been to New York and back in a day. I still have a copy of my ticket (10 March 1994) with a total cost including tax of £5044.30 GBP!

I wish she were still flying...I miss watching her soar over London - it was always such a great sight!