100 years on, airlines hampered by history, IATA says

On New Year’s Day, 1914, Abe Pheil squeezed into the open cockpit of a Benoist Type XIV boatplane in St. Petersburg, Florida, and became the world’s first airline passenger, flying 20 miles in 23 minutes for a specially auctioned fare of $400. Last year three billion people followed in his footsteps. But while the first […]