No Concorde purchase
fN 7 P .4. Pettier—Copyright I ‘ LOS ANGELES. March 30. Continental airlines yester- ' day said it had dropped ’ 1 options to buy three Anglo- ’ French Concorde supersonic ' airliners. “I The airline said that it □ '"cannot effectively utilise the 3 extraordinary capabilities" s !of the plane over its existing routes. r But it asked the rnanu- '• facturers to "consider the e airline as a potential •- customer at some later date.” i- Continental is the fourth 0 United States airline to canto cel options for the Concorde n in the last two months An n airline spokesman said that the new ban on supersonic flights over the continental »r United States was not a facte tor in the cancellation.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33189, 31 March 1973, Page 15
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