![]() ![]() “I bumped into the head of Perrier,” Makos recalled. During one flight with Warhol, he managed a bit of deal-making for the artist. ‘A lot of people drank better on the Concorde than they did on the ground.’Photographer Christopher Makos frequently traveled via Concorde with pals Calvin Klein and Andy Warhol. Dolly Parton flirted with the pilots and Cindy Crawford has recalled how she once fell asleep before take-off and “ up an hour later to find Mick Jagger sitting next to me.” Masters of the universe Henry Kravis and George Soros seat-hopped. Jet-setters - who included Princess Diana, Henry Kissinger and Steven Spielberg - quaffed from $200 bottles of Dom Perignon and ate blue lobster. ![]() If money had a smell, you could smell it on the Concorde.”įrom 1976 to 2003, it was the world’s most expensive high-tech form of air travel: $1,500 for a round trip the first year and $12,000 by the last. “It was getting in touch with how the super-rich live. “If a really beautiful coat came through, we occasionally slipped it on before placing it on the hanger,” former flight attendant Sally Armstrong, author of “ Vintage Champagne on the Edge of Space,” told The Post. It should come as no surprise that the Concorde had to have a special place to store the mink and sable coats passengers wore on the plane.īut those fliers probably had no idea that the staff of the famed jet was secretly trying on the furs. ![]()
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