Increased Global Connectivity Airliners have made the world a smaller place, connecting people and cultures across continents.
With the advent of commercial air travel, cities and countries that were once far-flung and difficult to access are now just a few hours away..
Air transport is at the heart of global economic growth.
It creates employment, facilitates trade, enables tourism and supports sustainable development all around the world..
The first scheduled passenger flight was in 1914 from St.
Petersburg, Florida, to Tampa – a distance of just 17 miles.
In 1930 around 6,000 passengers flew, an amount that increased to half a million in 1934.
Pan Am introduced the Boeing 307s in the late 1940s, the first planes with pressurized cabins..
aviation, the development and operation of heavier-than-air aircraft.
The term military aviation refers to the development and use of military aircraft, while the term civil aviation refers to all nonmilitary aviation, such as air transportation provided by airlines or the carrying of cargo by commercial aircraft..
List of aviation-related events in 2003
List of aviation-related events in 2003
