2014 marks a century of commercial flight. On January 1 1914 the first scheduled commercial airline flight took to the skies. The 23-minute flight from St. Petersburg to Tampa, Florida, had one passenger – Abram C. Pheil, the former Mayor of St. Petersburg.
In the early days of aviation the craft rather than the destination was the star. With the advent of the Jet Age in the late 1950s, the destination was the attraction and two of the airlines at the vanguard were TWA and United Airlines.
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