At both Heathrow and JFK you boarded British Airways's Concorde flights from Concorde Room, a premium lounge with a directly attached jet bridge to the plane. (

At both Heathrow and JFK you boarded British Airways's Concorde flights from Concorde Room, a premium lounge with a directly attached jet bridge to the plane. (These live on as BA's lounges for first class passengers; even at Heathrow Terminal 5 from which Concorde never had a chance to operate. But they're nothing special. Lufthansa operates a dedicated terminal for their first class passengers at Frankfurt.) In other words, ground services were and are a key component of a premium travel offering, and can effectively shave a ton off the total travel time. Concorde flights predate the now-common practice of bundling chauffeured limousine rides with premium airfare, but you have to expect that the average Concorde passenger had adequate arrangements in place for their airport transfers. I've only flown Concorde in the easterly direction, with none of the "chase the sun" appeal. But if you're accustomed to the drudgery of the regular JFK-LHR redeye, a breakfast in Concorde Room at 8 am, a very nice lunch at Mach 2.0, and wheels down in London before 5 pm is comparatively a very agreeable way to spend the first half of a work day.