New Year's Eve dinner on the Concorde

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Concorde into the New Year
40 people will see in the New Year on Concorde

Arguably the most exclusive event this coming New Year’s Eve must be Brooklands Museum’s Concorde Gala Dinner. Just 40 people will experience fine dining in the Edwardian Clubhouse, hosted by Capt Harry Linfield, British Airways Concorde Captain, before seeing in the New Year with Champagne and Auld Lang Syne on board the iconic supersonic airliner, and a spectacular fireworks display.

The black-tie evening begins with a Welcome Champagne Reception followed by a specially-created six-course Concorde Gala Dinner featuring Beef Concorde and Mach 2 Mélange! All drinks are included. Entertainment and music for dancing will be provided by Heather Simmons and the Hot Rhythm Boys and there will be an informal chat with Capt Linfield.

Shortly before midnight, guests will board Concorde for the special ‘flight’ to welcome in 2012 and this will be followed by a spectacular firework display with Concorde as the centrepiece. The price for this exclusive dinner is £295 per person.

Source: AERBT and www.brooklandsmuseum.com

[andorra-airport]

It would be so nice to see it fly again in the future! Maybe at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8712806.stm

http://www.save-concorde.com/

[chornedsnorkack]

Just 40? Too few. Concorde always had 100 seats. Even on the Barbados flights, 80 were for sale.

Concorde was designed for midgets, preferrably midgets without any hand luggage. There were surprisingly few complaints about the poor headroom and tiny seats because the overpaid employees whose tickets were being paid by their companies didn´t want to lose face in front of the economy class tourists who had twice the room on a 747 for a tenth of the price.

Headroom cannot be helped, but Gulfstream, Falcon, Challenger and Global Express have less. Seats could have been made better, even on Concorde. Concorde always was 4 abreast, 2-2, all the way to front. There were talks of installing 3 abreast seats for 1st class, but these came to naught. Concorde could easily be fitted with 60 seats at 3 abreast and 46 inches pitch instead of the 100.

Or indeed, with couches, tables and beds like Global Express, and Embraer Lineage. Embraer managed to squeeze a queen bed into an E190 Lineage (mere 11 cm wider than Concorde):

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Dalia-Ai ... /2015897/L

How would you design a 40 seat interior for a Concorde?

Regarding the gala dinner: what is the dresscode? Is white tie required, or black tie acceptable? And what was the dresscode on Concorde flights - lounge suits, or evening dress?

[andorra-airport]

Just 40? Too few. Concorde always had 100 seats. Even on the Barbados flights, 80 were for sale.

"Delta Golf" has only 40 seats, the rest is transformed into an exhibition area. It's a museum airplane remember..