CONCORDE is unlikely to receive an airworthiness certificate
this week, the Civil Aviation Authority has revealed.
A spokeswoman for the organisation said it had requested
further details from British Airways that would need to be studied before a
certificate can be issued.
“We never set a date when the certificate would be issued,
but the Department for Transport Local Government and The Regions said by the
end of August. We would not rule out this week, but it certainly will not be
today,” the spokeswoman said.
The supersonic aircraft was expected to receive an
airworthiness directive by August 31 following a meeting of the Anglo-French
Concorde Working Group (Travel Weekly, August 27). This would have paved
the way for British Airways to commence transatlantic flights once again.