JFK is New York City's main gateway, handling 171,000 passengers a day across approximately 1,200 daily flight movements.
Thanks to the decline of sea travel, Boston quickly became one of the United States’ most important hubs for air travel.
In the shadows of the Cascade Mountains, Seattle-Tacoma is for many the gateway to the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
Today, in 1991, the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet 100 took to the skies for the first time.
On this day in 1988, United Airlines’ 'Friendship One’ Boeing 747 set a new round-the-world record.
Today, in 2002, United Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, one of the largest in US history.
Today, in 1964, a French-built jet became the first to make a fully automatic landing in the US.
A global review of commercial flight
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