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Business History hosts Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith explore how a carrier with just four airplanes shuttling across Texas revolutionized flying by offering free whisky, cheap late-night tickets and free-for-all seating allocation, despite how hard it is to make money running an airline. However, the success story didn't last forever.
Long-distance commercial flights became more common in the 1980s, allowing tourists to travel internationally more easily. For those who could afford it, travel by airplane allowed them to see everything the world had to offer, harkening back to the philosophy of the Grand Tour.
Some in the airport industry argue that charging street prices in airport restaurants isn't sustainable because it's more expensive to run a business inside an airport.
Boarding an airplane takes time, but it doesn't have to. The Steffen perfect method goes like this: first, passengers with window seats in even-numbered rows board, then those in odd-numbered window seats, followed by middle seats in alternate rows, and lastly all aisle seats, reducing bottlenecks.
This interactive timeline covers the first 100 years of passenger air travel, which was created in 1925 when the U.S. Post Office allowed private airlines to start delivering mail.
This infographic details nine airplane models that transformed aviation. This visual guide jumps over the dawn of modern air travel and begins with the open-cockpit biplane flown by the first scheduled airline, the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line.
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