Timeline for Did anyone ever do a round trip with a Concorde in a single day?
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| S May 29, 2021 at 12:01 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
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| May 25, 2021 at 7:10 | comment | added | jwenting | @FluidCode correct. The scenarios (as I described) are pretty limited in which such a schedule makes much sense. But it is feasible and can be done. | |
| May 25, 2021 at 7:09 | comment | added | jwenting | My father did it on a 747 once. He needed to fly AMS-JFK-AMS in a single day for an emergency meeting in New York and he had important meetings on the next day in the Netherlands he had to attent. The meeting took place at the airport, in the secure area (prior to 9/11, though given the attendants I'm sure it could have been done there today). So yes, it's definitely possible even with far slower aircraft than Concorde and has been done. Not knowing everyone who's ever flown Concorde I can't tell you more than that. | |
| May 23, 2021 at 20:15 | comment | added | FluidCode | I had a quick look a the list in the linked page, it seems that the olnly possible round trip was from London to New York JFK and return with a gap of 4 hrs. Considering a fast lane for boarding the return flight it would have left about two hours for a business meeting. Except for a meeting to sign a contract (trusting nobody changed a word at the very last moment) I can't imagine so many chances worth the cost of the ticket and the 10 hrs plus travel time. | |
| May 22, 2021 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/1396209268081283073 | ||
| May 21, 2021 at 11:38 | answer | added | Oddthinking♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| S May 21, 2021 at 10:43 | history | bounty started | Tobias | ||
| S May 21, 2021 at 10:43 | history | notice added | Tobias | Authoritative reference needed | |
| May 21, 2021 at 10:38 | history | edited | Tobias | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added extra info about Flight Schedules
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| May 21, 2021 at 10:30 | comment | added | Tobias | @FluidCode Brian Furlong assembled the following list : forums.flightsimlabs.com/index.php?/topic/… | |
| May 21, 2021 at 10:02 | history | edited | Tobias | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Tipo fix
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| May 21, 2021 at 9:22 | comment | added | gnasher729 | I asked a retired stewardess who was around at that time, and was told that crews didn't return on the same day, because the six hours time difference made the return too late. So the main problem is the time difference. And crews would tend to have a shorter time home-to-airport than the average business man or woman. That doesn't mean it's impossible to return same day, but less likely. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 23:13 | comment | added | FluidCode | Are the old flight schedule still available somewhere? Are you able to check if there actually was a gap long enough between arrival and departure to let someone reach the city centre, participate in a meeting, go back to the airport and go through passport control and check in formalities? | |
| May 18, 2021 at 17:34 | comment | added | Jiminy Cricket. | Yeah, yeah, I know I was being pedantic; having been the first to comment I felt a proprietorial twinge when it wasn't "perfect". No harm done. @IMSoP | |
| May 18, 2021 at 15:42 | comment | added | IMSoP | @ARogueAnt. I've seen that kind of argument made here before, and I find it tedious. Questions should be clear, but they don't need to be held up as a defensible contract in court; and titles should be relevant, but nobody should be answering without reading the whole question. I think the intent of the question here is perfectly clear. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 14:25 | answer | added | TimRias | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 18, 2021 at 12:37 | comment | added | Jiminy Cricket. | @IMSoP Whilst I agree with you in the loosest reading, in principle the title: "Did anyone ever do a round trip on a Concorde in a single day?", and the final sentence of the question don't strictly match the claim in the quote. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 12:10 | comment | added | IMSoP | @ARogueAnt. Both the original question and the edited version are clearly talking about customers buying tickets in order to fly there and back again, not crew who are aboard for both legs. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 8:44 | comment | added | Tobias | @John Coleman one way tickets costed +- 6000$ so roundtrip would have been 12k$. So it would have been cheaper to flight first-class non-concorde stay at the Plaza or Savoy Hotel and flight back the next day. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 3:07 | history | edited | Giter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Typo in title
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| May 18, 2021 at 1:23 | comment | added | Jiminy Cricket. | Does the flight-crew count? Isn't it fairly routine on such short-haul flights to have the same pilot/copilot and crew for both legs of a journey? | |
| May 18, 2021 at 1:14 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | Example claim added. Reopened. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 1:13 | history | reopened | Oddthinking♦ | ||
| May 18, 2021 at 1:13 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Cite claim. Copy-edit.
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| May 16, 2021 at 15:41 | comment | added | user11643 | Hello. We will need a quoted claim to test. Even a reddit post with enough views counts. | |
| May 16, 2021 at 15:41 | history | closed | CommunityBot | Not suitable for this site | |
| May 16, 2021 at 13:54 | comment | added | Joe W | Why do you think it didn't happen? Traveling for a day business meeting does happen and with trip times like that it would be worth it for some. | |
| May 16, 2021 at 13:32 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 16, 2021 at 12:34 | comment | added | John Coleman | It doesn't seem like a particularly grandiose or implausible statement, or one which is really important in any way. Why do you think that it is a reasonable target for Skeptics? | |
| May 16, 2021 at 11:25 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 16, 2021 at 11:17 | history | asked | Tobias | CC BY-SA 4.0 |