{"id":28177,"date":"2021-06-16T18:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=28177"},"modified":"2021-06-16T19:40:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T00:40:23","slug":"united-airlines-supersonic-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/united-airlines-supersonic-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"After 2 Decades of Concorde\u2019s Fall, United Airlines to Bring Back Ultrafast Supersonic Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe Concorde was fabulous. I had a love affair with the Concorde that lasted longer than both of my ex-wives. It was a great part of my life<\/strong>. The difference between it and a conventional aircraft is like a Rolls-Royce or Cadillac and a Lamborghini or a McLaren. It was so futuristic and so gorgeous,\u201d said Fred Finn, the \u201cWorld\u2019s Most Traveled Person\u201d title holder in the Guinness Book of World Records, who took a whopping 718 flights on the ultra-fast supersonic jet.<\/p>\n October 24, 2003 saw the Concorde fly high for the last time after three years of struggle following a fatal crash causing the death of all 109 passengers aboard in 2000<\/strong>. Once a darling of the jet-setting elite for its promise \u201cArrive before you leave\u201d and matchless luxury, the space-age wonder became a silent exhibit in aviation museums after Air France and British Airways stripped their fleet of the supersonic jet.<\/p>\n The Concorde – a celebration of wealth, power and technology in its heyday \u2013 traveled faster than sound from New York to London in only 3 hours and 45 minutes, half the time a Boeing 747 takes to cover the same distance. Other than high economics of production and operations, the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center accelerated the grounding of the Concorde. Forty of the Concorde\u2019s frequent flyers who made business travel more than 20 times a year worked at the World Trade Center. Their demise in the\u00a09\/11 attack\u00a0hurled a blow to the world\u2019s fastest passenger flight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n