Originally Posted by
NineEighteen
Gatwick Airport's History webpage states that in 1985 "Concorde starts flying commercial flights from Gatwick". Does anyone know any details on this please? Does it mean that the occasional charter left from LGW or was there ever a scheduled service from there? I know it was a diversion airport but presumably that was already the case from when Concorde started operating from LHR?
I'd be surprised if you need more than one hand to count the number of visits to LGW by Concorde over the years (though that does include a visit by an Air France example).
Methinks Gatwick are being a tad disingenuous on their website.