BA auctions Concorde tickets online for charity
Howard Lake | 19 October 2003 | News
British Airways is auctioning two Concorde tickets on eBay.co.uk and will donate the proceeds to charity.
The tickets are for a flight from London Heathrow to New York on 22 October 2003, two days before Concorde is withdrawn from service.
Ananova.com reports that the beneficiary charities will be UNICEF, Reading Is Fundamental, The Fred Rogers Fund and The Boys and Girls Club of America. With two hours to go before the auction closed the tickets had reached £19,440.
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