One of the most famous airline advertisements in the UK, the British Airways BAC-Aérospatiale Concorde model at London Heathrow airport, is to disappear and will probably be replaced by an Emirates Airbus A380 after the Middle Eastern carrier acquired the site.
The Concorde model is sited on a roundabout on the north side of Heathrow, where the spur road for the M4 motorway into London intersects the road tunnel beneath runway 09L/27R (below). View the location from Microsoft's Live Search site.
Dubai-based Emirates has secured the rights to the advertising site after British Airways ended its 16-year link with the prime location.
British Airways is preparing to dismantle the Concorde model, which is around 1:3 scale, but a spokesman says that the airline wants to try to find a new home for the iconic aircraft. “We hope to have some idea within the next couple of weeks,” he says.
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