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Old 22nd Jun 2003, 23:50
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BahrainLad
 
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First Concorde route was Heathrow-Bahrain.

I believe the accel point was over the Adriatic, and from then on M2.0 all the way across Saudi and down the Gulf. Flight time about 4 hours.

Dubai could be quite a successful route; plenty of high-yield traffic, but to build the market would have to be a daily service to compete with Emirates/BA. With only 5 aircraft, how would SRB propose to service JFK and DXB daily?

Also, would the Saudi's allow supersonic overflight of their (admittedly, empty) territory?
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