<story><title>Singapore Airlines Concorde</title><url>https://mainlymiles.com/2024/03/03/singapore-airlines-concorde-full-story/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delta_p_delta_x</author><text>&amp;gt; Flight times between Singapore and London would be cut from 18 hours on conventional aircraft at the time to just 10 hours.&lt;p&gt;This is very interesting, because current Singapore-Heathrow direct flights are around 13 hours. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t pay first-class++ fares for a 3-hour flight time reduction in a tiny, cramped cabin with worse pressurisation and ventilation than first class on modern A380s, B777s and A350s that currently ply the route.</text></comment>
<story><title>Singapore Airlines Concorde</title><url>https://mainlymiles.com/2024/03/03/singapore-airlines-concorde-full-story/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>I was surprised that SQ was the only third party airline to have its livery on Concorde, as I saw plenty of pictures of Concordes with Braniff livery on on side.&lt;p&gt;Well, I did remember correctly that the service operated from Dallas (to NY or Washington).  Subsonic only, and with lots of crazy adaptation to fit the crazy laws, like changing the aircraft registration number on each flight.&lt;p&gt;But all those pictures I saw were advertising drawings: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.heritageconcorde.com&amp;#x2F;braniff-airways-concorde-operations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.heritageconcorde.com&amp;#x2F;braniff-airways-concorde-op...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>