{"id":370422,"date":"2026-02-17T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/british-airways-air-france-concorde-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:00:17","slug":"british-airways-vs-air-france-who-operated-more-concorde-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=370422","title":{"rendered":"British Airways Vs. Air France: Who Operated More Concorde Aircraft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  >British Airways<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254866\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-france\/\"  >Air France<\/a><\/span> operated seven Concordes, one more than each of them had actually ordered, and one fewer than what was theoretically available. It has now been 50 years since Concorde entered service, and while its core route was Paris\/London to New York, that wasn&#8217;t the case on its inaugural revenue-generating flights. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2050526\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/concorde-1st-commercial-flight-50-years\/\" >first British flight flew to Bahrain, while the French flight flew to Rio de Janeiro via Senegal<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA and Air France both operated one more Concorde than they had intended due to aircraft being built for other customers, but not delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1719,396,1513,1702],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-france","category-aircraft","category-british-airways","category-concorde"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370423,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370422\/revisions\/370423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}