why didnt the concorde become popular in the world?

Question

it was incredibly quick and it saved alot of time on flights

Answer 1

Its accident in 2000 and world economic effects arising from 9/11 basically killed it.

Answer 2

The reason why the Concorde didn't become popular was because of a combination of things:

1) Cost, Ticket costs were significantly higher than commercial jets

2) Emissions, Because the Concorde flew at 60,000 Feet ( most planes fly at 40,000) the exhaust gasses combined with the O-Zone layer and started reactions reducing the amount of O3 in the atmosphere. that is the main reason why it was discontinued.

3) Because the FAA baned supersonic flight over land the Concorde was not able to fly into most airports in the united states. This was another reason why it did not go big.


Also up until 2003 the Concorde was the safest plane in the air and it was up until the crash in France. This crash was not due to faulty engineering or the design of the Concorde. it was scrap metal on the runway from another plane.

Answer 3

1. Incredibly, brutally noisy.

2. Gas guzzling maintenance hog= very expensive to fly.

3. Short range- barely could make it across the Atlantic, not far enough to make cost of supersonic flight worthwhile.

4. Tiny, cramped cabin- only four abreast.

5. Safety- the airplane never should have been certificated with double podded engines. This was known back in the 50s- that's why 707, DC8, Caravelle, 747, A380 all have the engines separated and staggered- because if one blows up it doesn't take out the other on that side- the airplane is not controllable with 2 engines out on the same side.


Only 16 entered service and one crashed. That would be equivalent, over the same time frame, to 80 747s, about 400 737s, or 100 A320s crashing. The airplane was dangerous.

Answer 4

It saved time for the rich and famous who could afford the price they had to charge for a ticket. When the Concorde was in service you could buy a round trip transatlantic flight on a 747 for about $1000.00. A first class ticket on the same plane would cost $7000.00 ,and a ticket of the Concorde was $12,000.00.

The aircraft should never have been put into service but national pride was in the way. No airlines bought the plane and only 20 were built. Of this 20 only 16 were production aircraft that went into service after been virtually GIVEN to the two national airlines of the countries involved in the development England and France.

What it boils down to is the taxpayers of those two countries spent 12 Billion dollars to give the rich and famous a means to cross the ocean at twice the speed of sound and not have to brush elbows with the likes of you and I.

Answer 5

A fantastic aircraft. Before it's time. But it's down to economics. Too expensive. Joe Public will not catch a taxi when he can get a bus. Same with the Concord. People had
to save up to travel on Concord, so it was not an 'every day' aircraft.

Hopefully, one day it will make a come-back.

Answer 6

BOEING. At the time that Concrde was flying around the world on there promotional tour so was Boeing on theres about the sonic boom and the bang that flying at the speed of sound would cause to the land below . Country after country started to cancell there orders but worse than that was they banned concorde from there air space . The USA wanted to ban it as well but due to air force one being more noisy and causing more pollution they decided not to but restricted where it could land . Its also ironic that the country that complained the most also had the most amount of flying concordes in one place . In the USA they have a full size model of there SST but with concorde looming changed there cargo carrying plane into passenger carrying hence the jumbo jet was born (747) . As for price of tickets the british owners had a survay carried out and as the general public thought the price at the time was twice as much as they were being charged they put the price up to what they expect to pay
When flying even with less than 50% of her pasengers concorde coverd the cost of the flight .
As to her safety record not one british concorde crashed .
The french crash had several problems and was on fire before setting off down the runway reported by airport firemen
Poor maintinance had left a part out of the under carrage which caused the plane to crab off the run way which was in a bad state of repair . The next problem the pilot had on the concorde was that the french president had the plane he was travelling on which had just landed to taxie to a crossing point where they could watch concorde take off . the piolt on concorde had two options eithere crash into the 747 and all its passengers or attempt take off and land again . We know the results of that but the two planes came that close during take off that the paint work on the 747 got burnt .
The CAA has removed Concordes air worthy certificate this is due to Airbus moving workshops and refusing to surport the fleet therefore as all parts having a patent by airbus no one else can make them . However the french do have a concorde in near flying condition and have offerd Airbus millions to produce them parts i hope they succeed .
As nothing has surpassed concorde its a shame she was not kept in the air untll something else did .
PS sorry about spelling . spell check not working
added later
considering that boeing caused the down fall of cocorde they now are going to show the world there new plane the 787 with just 200 passengers .they also have plans to fly at
mach 0.9 on there next poject plane

Answer 7

also one reason that no one has stated, was her low range, it could not fly LAX to TKY, Airfrance had the route mexico city paris, but one scale in new york, and what they did was fly subsonic from mexico to the coastline in florida, the supersonic like 30 minutes until new york, then refuel new passengers and to paris, the route was cancelled because it was a non profit route and mexican laws prohibited because the awful noise. a route from Sao Paulo to Johansburg was planned but i believe never took place. Nice incredible aircraft but to advanced for the time, and why buy a 12000 ticket for a 4 hour flight if you can buy a 7000 ticket for a 12 hour luxury service incredible wines and food in a 747.

Answer 8

BIGGEST reason besides range, ticket price, and cost of operation:

The FAA banned it's operations OVER the USA due to the noise (sonic boom). Therefore it only operated out of Dulles in Washington, DC., and after a court-ruling, JFK in New York. Therefore it couldn't be used for supersonic travel from SFO to Japan, or SFO to Hawaii, or LAX to Hawaii, or other such high-profit routes.

Someone here stated that it was only operated by British Airlines and Air France... that is incorrect... Braniff leased some aircraft, as did Singapore Air.

I flew in the Concorde in 1987 Brown-Field Airshow in San Diego.

Answer 9

Concorde didnt became popular because it demanded thorough maintenance hence maintenance cost was high,the fuel consumption was also high since it incorporated the after burner.The major drawback is that tremendrous noise produced due to jet thrust which caused uncomfort to the passengers & the people living near the airport

Answer 10

Too expensive to maintain and ticket prices were rediculous and many airports could not accomodate it.