British Airways retired its Concorde fleet on 24 October 2003.

All of BA's Concorde fleet have been grounded, drained of hydraulic fluid and their airworthiness certificates withdrawn.

British Airways plans to retire its Concorde fleet at the end of October.

It became necessary to find additional work for BCal's envisaged two-strong Concorde fleet to increase the aircraft's utilisation, thus permitting a cost-effective operation.

Air France retired its Concorde fleet last May.

Both British Airways and Air France immediately grounded their Concorde fleets.

In this manner the whole Concorde fleet was finally grounded when Airbus SAS surrendered its type certificate.

In an effort to increase the use of the operational Concorde fleet, King allowed the planes to be chartered for special services.

In 1976, L'Epée was selected to equip the whole Concorde supersonic fleet.

The crash forced both airlines to ground their Concorde fleets and cooperate on returning the planes to service.