London - Concorde will be back in passenger service next month after air regulators finally approved a package of modifications to the supersonic aircraft.
The agreement means that alpha foxtrot, the one British Airways Concorde to have been been completely modified, will now get its air-worthiness certificate back. Two more of the airline's seven Concordes are being modified and will get their certificates back shortly.
With three planes in service, BA plans to resume daily London-New York Concorde commercial services "some time in October", moving to the normal twice-daily transatlantic run later.
Air France, which has five remaining Concordes, is expected to start its services again in November. Concorde passenger planes were grounded after last summer's Air France Concorde crash, which claimed 113 lives.