Originally Posted by
ACA856
I also thought the VC10 still held the record until this weekend for JFK-LHR.
The VC-10 may well have held the JFK-LHR record at one point, though I haven't seen it documented anywhere. The Norwegian records set in January and February 2018 (the latter being the one broken at the weekend by BA) got plenty of coverage at the time, beating BA's previous January 2015 record of 5:16. I suppose if we wanted to be really picky, we could argue that one went to Heathrow and the other to Gatwick.
If it's any consolation,
this site reckons that at least up to 2009, the VC-10 held the record for the fastest
westbound transatlantic crossing (LHR-JFK), though I suspect that WestJet now have that, too.