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Air Travel Turns 100: How Flying Has Changed Over the Last Century
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1054" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://robbreport.com/travel/destinations/100-years-of-air-travel-british-airways-2847416/" target="_blank"><strong>Air Travel Turns 100: How Flying Has Changed Over the Last Century - Robb Report</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>This year, British Airways celebrates a century in the air. Here's a look at what's changed—for better or worse. </strong></p><p></p><p>As anyone who remembers when flying commercial meant fine china, smoking sections and nary a flip-flop or yoga pant in sight will tell you, a lot has changed with air travel in just a few short decades. Which is nothing compared to the evolution <a href="https://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_us" target="_blank">British Airways</a> has seen.</p><p></p><p>Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, the airline was known as Air Transport & Travel when it flew the world’s first commercial scheduled air service from Hounslow Heath to Paris on August 25, 1919. Since then, the legacy airline has operated under several names (including BOAC, Imperial Airways, and BEA) and undergone many changes (including the success—and discontinuation—of its <a href="https://robbreport.com/style/watch-collector/bremont-introduces-timepiece-celebrating-the-concorde-2826501/" target="_blank">supersonic Concorde service</a>), but through it all, the company has continued to evolve to serve the needs of contemporary travelers. Today, a British Airways aircraft takes off somewhere in the world every 90 seconds, on its way to one of over 200 destinations in more than 75 countries.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1054, member: 1"] [URL='https://robbreport.com/travel/destinations/100-years-of-air-travel-british-airways-2847416/'][B]Air Travel Turns 100: How Flying Has Changed Over the Last Century - Robb Report[/B][/URL] [B]This year, British Airways celebrates a century in the air. Here's a look at what's changed—for better or worse. [/B] As anyone who remembers when flying commercial meant fine china, smoking sections and nary a flip-flop or yoga pant in sight will tell you, a lot has changed with air travel in just a few short decades. Which is nothing compared to the evolution [URL='https://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_us']British Airways[/URL] has seen. Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, the airline was known as Air Transport & Travel when it flew the world’s first commercial scheduled air service from Hounslow Heath to Paris on August 25, 1919. Since then, the legacy airline has operated under several names (including BOAC, Imperial Airways, and BEA) and undergone many changes (including the success—and discontinuation—of its [URL='https://robbreport.com/style/watch-collector/bremont-introduces-timepiece-celebrating-the-concorde-2826501/']supersonic Concorde service[/URL]), but through it all, the company has continued to evolve to serve the needs of contemporary travelers. Today, a British Airways aircraft takes off somewhere in the world every 90 seconds, on its way to one of over 200 destinations in more than 75 countries. [/QUOTE]
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