Originally Posted by
MrMachfivepointfive
Except that post is wrong - Concorde service to Dulles started in May 1976, only a few months after Concorde entered commercial service. It was banned from JFK for a couple years (primarily due to noise concerns), but not from the US.
And the opposition to Concorde had nothing to do with Boeing - it was pretty much the same environmentalists that helped kill the Boeing 2707 that were against it serving JFK.
