The Concorde... Airport '79 is a 1979 American air disaster film (in the UK, it was released a year later as Airport '80: The Concorde) and the fourth and final installment of the See more

• Alain Delon as Capt. Paul Metrand
• Susan Blakely as Maggie Whelan
• Robert Wagner as Kevin Harrison
• Sylvia Kristel as … See more

It took producer Jennings Lang a number of years to get permission from Air France to use the Concorde. Air France requested some changes to the story and dialogue. Lang argued the film was not a direct sequel because it used different characters and … See more

Critical reception
The film was the recipient of mostly negative reviews by critics upon its release, and years later holds an approval rating of 25% on the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on eight reviews. See more

The Concorde aircraft used in the film first flew on January 31, 1975, and was registered as F-WTSC to the Aérospatiale aircraft company. It would be re-registered by Aérospatiale as F-BTSC and leased to Air France in 1976. In 1989, this Concorde carried See more

For the film's May 1982 network television premiere on ABC, additional footage was added to expand the film's running time so it could be shown in a three-hour time slot. See more

• Airport
• Airport 1975
• Airport '77
• Concorde Affaire '79 See more