On 10 April 2003 , Air France and British Airways simultaneously announced they would retire Concorde later that year . They cited low passenger numbers following the 25 July 2000 crash , the slump in air travel following the September 11 attacks , and rising maintenance costs : Airbus ( the company that acquired Aerospatiale in 2000 ) had made a decision in 2003 to no longer supply replacement parts for the aircraft . Although Concorde was technologically advanced when introduced in the 1970s , 30 years later , its analogue cockpit was outdated . There had been little commercial pressure to upgrade Concorde due to a lack of competing aircraft , unlike other airliners of the same era such as the Boeing 747 . By its retirement , it was the last aircraft in the British Airways fleet that had a flight engineer ; other aircraft , such as the modernised 747-400 , had eliminated the role
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September 11 attacks
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