MIAMI- ‘Speedbird Concorde 1’, a callsign that is recognized throughout global aviation. Over the years, it has been associated with British Airways (BA) and its Concorde service to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) from London Heathrow (LHR). According to flagshipflights.com, The “Speedbird” call sign comes from BOAC, which inherited it from Imperial Airways. It was the name for the airline’s emblem, which has now ended up being the BA logo, known as the ‘Speedmarque’, after several iterations. Until its retirement in 2003, Concorde was such a unique aircraft that it had its name appended to the normal BA callsign for starters. BA even paid extra for her to skip the queue at LHR and JFK.