Rolex01 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 805 times:
Well.... This shouldnt be a shock to MOST of us who asked WHY IS TOLEDO OHIO (TOL) GOING TO GET A BRITISH AIRWAYS CONCORDE CHARTER?
Well, they are not. Dont waste your time, heading to Toledo to see something that wont be there this weekend.
Making some phone calls a couple weeks back to see if this was still going to happen I spoke with a British Airways agent and she kindly said that Toledo couldnt fill it. They are going to fly the people who did buy tickets to JFK to catch a regularly scheduled Concorde flight.... All 40 of them.
Any other city could have filled a Concorde. Boo hoo….
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 76 Reply 1, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 731 times:
Who in their right mind would have thought there would be enough people in Toledo who could afford a trip on the concorde anyway?
"Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again"
USAFWX From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 25 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 704 times:
HA! Why Toledo would get a concorde baffles me. Toledo is so blue collar, it makes Pittsburgh look like L.A.!
Jayhup From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 440 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 675 times:
Several years ago I worked a BA Concorde (reg G-BOAD for those keeping score at home) charter that went ICT-JFK-LHR. It was completely full. Our arrival the day before made the front page of the newspaper. I'm sure next time Toledo will be able to fill it....
DSMav8r From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 579 posts, RR: 8 Reply 5, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 654 times:
These kind of charters pop up occassionally...There was a vacation package recently that was supposed to bring the Concorde into DSM as well, but like Toledo, they couldn't fill it.
The Concorde has been at OMA on a couple of occassions. One was just a standard charter that went OMA-JFK-LHR and the other was chartered by I believe by local billionaire Warren Buffett.
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GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12706 posts, RR: 80 Reply 6, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 641 times:
This came up a few weeks ago, it's just a bunch of people booked on to a normal BA002 service, as the first part of a trip to sightsee around England, I think they also return on the QE2.
BH346 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 3265 posts, RR: 17 Reply 7, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 639 times:
LOL, Wichita. If Wichita got it, then Toledo can. BTW, I remember seeing years ago a Concorde land at Little Rock.
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Ouboy79 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 3994 posts, RR: 23 Reply 8, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 630 times:
One should note that this travel agency advertised it 1 week about 4 months ago in the daily local rag. Nothing else was mentioned and the only place you could find it was on the airport's website at toledoexpress.com under news. Had they actually advertised it, it may have been filled. Its hard to sell something when no one knows about it! LOL
Any opinion/comment posted is that of my own and not that of Southwest Airlines Co.
ExpressJet_ERJ From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 827 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 586 times:
Cleveland was supposed to get an Air France concorde. But when the Concorde crashed out of CDG it was cancelled.
Serge From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 1989 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 574 times:
Billings Logan (BIL) was also supposed to get a Concorde charter a few years ago... couldn't fill it so it was cancelled.
Rolex01 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 562 times:
Witchita... Concorde.... Like I said, any other city could have filled it. Whats this prove??? Farmers are doing better financially than Owens Corning workers.
Flyinryan99 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 1919 posts, RR: 11 Reply 12, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 539 times:
Rolex....I have a question for u...don't take this personal but do you work for the Blade? It just seems that you have the same mentality of them always trashing the city and always out there to look for something negative about it. I'm just curoius, that's all.
HSVXJ From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 228 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (11 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 504 times:
We got an Air France Concorde charter here in Huntsville back in Oct 99. Thousands came out to watch it land, and even more came out to watch it depart the next morning (having a concorde RON was quite a surprise for the overnighting MD80 and Avro crews that night.) I've got some kick ass pictures of it.
In fact, that Concorde charter went so well, they're trying to bring it back this summer. When they do, we'll be the only city in Alabama to have had the Concorde. Twice even.
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