Concorde’s final passenger flight and why Britain retired it

The last scheduled Concorde flight was over before the aircraft itself was finished flying. At 4.05pm on 24 October 2003, British Airways' G-BOAG arrived at Heathrow from New York as BA002. Captain Mike Bannister had brought the final transatlantic passenger service home. Two other Concordes joined the farewell arrivals, one returning from Edinburgh and one from a ceremonial circuit. The aircraft would still fly to museums, but a commercially scheduled crossing of the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound would not be offered again.