Concorde chief pilot: Passenger planes won’t break sound barrier until ‘around 2050’
Exclusive: ‘Supersonic flight was a fantastic experience – but we won’t miss it as much as some think’ says BA Captain Jock Lowe

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Exclusive: ‘Supersonic flight was a fantastic experience – but we won’t miss it as much as some think’ says BA Captain Jock Lowe

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Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has issued a warning to travellers going on holiday this summer.

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Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary joked that he and Elon Musk should settle their spat with an arm wrestle “like old farts do” after the billionaire hinted that he would buy the budget airline.

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Exclusive: Airline boss calls proposal from The Independent for test of strength ‘a brilliant idea’

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Exclusive: Micheal O’Leary dismissed bid to buy the carrier, saying ‘non-Europeans cannot control a European airline’

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‘Book today before Musk gets one’ reads the sales pitch

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Plane Talk: Arguments against a successor to Concorde, from Flight Free UK

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Exclusive: Travel from London to Bristol for under £2 – with many other intercity and airport journeys under a fiver

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In the wake of another Spanish train tragedy, how do the statistics compare with road and air?

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Plane Talk: The jet had a creditable 27-year career, but ultimately proved an evolutionary cul-de-sac

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Simon Calder shares all you need to know about the supersonic jet

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Exclusive: Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of the aircraft maker, says Concorde successor Overture could fly by end of decade

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Hamburg to Munich and Cologne to Berlin: £48 buys a month of travel in central Europe’s largest nation

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In the wake of another Spanish train tragedy, how do the statistics compare with road and air?

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