Operating costs are more and profits less.
With only 20 aircraft built, the development phase represented a substantial economic loss. Additionally, Air France and British Airways were subsidised by their governments to buy the aircraft. As a result of the type's only crash, (on 25 July 2000), economic effects arising from the September 11 attacks, and other factors, operations ceased on 24 October 2003. The last "retirement" flight occurred on 26 November 2003. For more information, try the site below.
Concorde was retired in 2003 after Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde crashed with no survivors. Mostly, there are many tributes to Concorde on YouTube.
In memory of Concorde.
The Concorde stopped flying in 2003.
24 October 2003
Concorde officially stopped flying on 26th October, 2003.
26 November 2003 Wednesday was concordes last flight
The first flight was March 2, 1969. The first commercial flight was January 21, 1976. And Concorde was retired November 26, 2003.
The Concorde was retired on November 26, 2003.
1969
The main trigger was the crash of a Concorde in 2000; all the passengers and crew died. For some years, Concorde had been flying at a loss (even after writing off the huge development costs). After the crash, all Concordes were grounded and airlines took the commercial decision to discontinue the service.
Flying the fisrt Concorde in 1969
no it was not but it was very fast
Concorde suffered only one serious (i.e. fatal) incident/crash during its lifetime.
The last flight of the Concorde was on October 24, 2003. The airplane was too expensive to continue flying.