Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
Concorde at 50: simultaneous Paris and London commercial launches on 21 Jan 1976
On 21 January 1976 Concorde entered commercial service with simultaneous departures from Paris and London. Air France's inaugural routing — Paris–Dakar–Rio — and its British counterpart launched regular Mach 2 passenger operations, marking the commercial start of supersonic air travel fifty years ago.