That, then, is a story worth telling (the Concorde part and the "Tony Crosland's PPS" part - at Environment I'm guessing?)Ah, the Concorde. Always had a special place in the family mythology, as Grandad was one of the first ever passengers back when he was Tony Crosland's PPS.
Yes, McGovern putting a thumb on the scales early with the NYC noise ordinance (it was junked a few years later anyway when fiscally-catastrophic Gotham thought the Concorde would be good for luring more tourists) and also the early deregulation of the airlines - where established carriers (1) need every gimmick they've got to win trade back from low-cost startups and (2) see some advantages to building a revenue base in higher-end clientele - causes a few major carriers to prolong or revisit their decisions about Concorde ITTL.
All of which is also an excuse to say LET THERE BE AIRCRAFT PORN. It will surprise likely no one at all that there is a cottage industry of photoshopping alternate aircraft, both ones that never flew and ones flying in colors that they never did. So, have a little of that there:
Pan American Airlines' Clipper Columbia, one of the airline's four Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde SSTs purchased in response to industry
incentives and the Airline Deregulation Act of 1974, seen here on the "Sea to Shining Sea Shuttle," Pan Am's supersonic connector
between its bases at New York-JFK and Los Angeles (LAX) sometime in the late 1970s
A Trans World Airlines (TWA) Concorde, one of three in TWA livery, on final approach into London-Heathrow in the spring of 1978: TWA was one of the "Fast Four" airlines -
Pan Am, British Airways, Air France, and TWA - offering supersonic routes between London and New York, fighting over the high-volume, high-dollar route at considerable
expense to other carriers, and themselves
An Iran Air Concorde seen at London-Heathrow: not to be outdone in a mildly revived market for the supersonic aircraft, the Shah of Iran pressured his
nation's flag carrier into taking three, which served routes to Paris-Orly and London-Heathrow when one was not being "borrowed" as His Imperial
Majesty's personal form of transportation, usually to OPEC conferences or Washington D.C. by way of Parisian shopping