# Remind Me: Is the Concord (SST) Flying?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-is-the-concord-sst-flying/153588>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 7, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-is-the-concord-sst-flying/153588 "2003-02-07T22:31:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-is-the-concord-sst-flying/153588/1 "2003-02-07T22:31:20Z")

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Awhile back, I thought there was talk about the Concord flying again. I never heard much more about it, and other news events took priority. It kept slipping my mind to ask. So, is it alive and well, or is SST travel deep-sixed? - Jinx

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-is-the-concord-sst-flying/153588/2 "2003-02-07T22:34:33Z")

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[It’s still going](http://www.britishairways.com/concorde/index.html), on [both side of the Channel](http://www.airfrance.com/double6/passage2.nsf/(LookupPublishedWeb)/en-CONCO-ServicesConcorde?OpenDocument), apparently.

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**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-is-the-concord-sst-flying/153588/3 "2003-02-08T00:45:51Z")

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Still flying, but nowhere near as often as before the accident. I don’t know if this is because the super-rich have lost confidence in it or there are just fewer super-rich in the current economic climate.

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**Author:** ![TBone2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@TBone2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBone2)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-is-the-concord-sst-flying/153588/4 "2003-02-08T03:52:43Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ticker \*  
> \*\*Still flying, but nowhere near as often as before the accident. I don’t know if this is because the super-rich have lost confidence in it or there are just fewer super-rich in the current economic climate. \*\*

Silly! There will always be enough of what you term ‘the super-rich’ to fill the seats on a Concorde.

Lack of money with potential passengers… I doubt it. More likely a lack of confidence combined with a reshuffling of schedules during the SST’s absence.

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**Author:** ![Wysiwig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wysiwig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wysiwig)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-is-the-concord-sst-flying/153588/5 "2003-02-08T07:32:40Z")

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11am over my house every day!!!

Got to say everyone in the street still looks up, what a noise it makes.

Reminds me from my childhood sort of Dan Dare (comic) thing with future space travel in mind. Making paper dart airplanes…