How did airlines come into being?

At present, the scheduled flights in the world can carry millions of passengers every year. At most major airports, flights have to queue up for takeoff or landing. Such air traffic is a common phenomenon in modern times. Therefore, it is hard for many people to believe that regular air transport has only appeared for more than 50 years without counting the early Zeppelin air transport of German Airship Aviation Co., Ltd. and the short-term air transport activities on the airship route from St. Petersburg to Tampa.

19 19, Britain, France and Germany established air transport services respectively. In the same year, Switzerland established military air mail and short-term passenger service. This year is the year when countries begin air transport.

The development of British air transport is first attributed to the visionary George Holt Thomas, who founded the air transport and tourism company as early as 19 16 10.05. Secondly, this is due to the service needs of military airlift after the First World War.

Cross-strait air transport began in the periods of 19 18 and 12. At that time, RAF planes flew back and forth between London and Paris to transport members of the British government attending the peace conference. 1919 65438+1October 10, the 1st (communication) squadron of the Royal Air Force began to airlift passengers and mail between London and Paris on a regular basis.

August 25th 19 19 is the most important day in the history of British air transport, because on this day, scheduled international commercial air flights were launched. The operator of this business is still an air travel company, and the route is from London to Paris. The departure time of the plane from Henslow Airport near Heathrow Airport to Bourget Airport was set at 12: 30, which was always taken as the standard departure time of this route by British Air Transport Company until World War II.

The first third airline in Britain opens19191013. On this day, British Si Tong Company opened a private airline from Cardiff to Paris via London, with the original intention of transporting personnel and documents for the company. But in February 1920, it was changed to a public flight between London and Paris. 192 1 At the end of the year, the air transport department of the company was changed to British Si Tong Airlines.

1920,65438+February, the air transport travel company closed down, 1922, Daimler Airlines inherited its business; 1924, Imperial Airlines was composed of four companies, three of which were Daimler, Anglo-Si Tong and Handley Page. Imperial Airlines merged with later British Airways to form British Overseas Airlines (BOAC). Therefore, the establishment of this company can be directly traced back to the pioneering period of commercial air transport.

Both Beihai Airlines and British Air Transport Company operated a small number of scheduled air services in 19 19, but they closed down one after another soon, which did not play much role in the development of British air transport.

The French claimed that on February 8th 19 19, an air flight from Paris to London was launched. At that time, farman's twin-engine "Goliath" was used to fly from Paris to Kenley. But this is a special plane flight, carrying 1 1 soldiers, which is neither commercial air transport; I didn't book it by air, so I can't call a flight. As a matter of fact, Farman Airlines started the weekly flight from Paris to Brussels at the end of March, 19 19, and Air Transport Company (CMA) started in April 2008. Open freight flights from Paris to Lille.

19 19 September 16, air transport companies and Handley Page started to jointly operate the Paris-London air transport business, using the single-engine Breguet 14 aircraft, and the London-Paris operated by France set sail three days later.

Shortly after the First World War, Latigor began to develop air transport business, which later became the famous French air transport business across the South Atlantic to South America. 19 18 technical trial will be started at the end of this year. 1965438+In July 2009, a pilot air mail service was launched between Toulouse, Rabat and Casablanca; 1920, the regular airmail service as far away as Casablanca was opened. By June 1925, the route is as far as Dakar. 1933 In June, Air France was established. Since then, the company has uniformly undertaken the above air transport business and other air transport businesses in France.

In Germany, the early air transport business was in1965438+February 2009. German air transport company opened regular air service between Berlin and Weimar with single-engine biplanes of A.E.C and L.V.G In March of the same year, Junker Company opened a flight from Dessau to Weimar with an all-metal monoplane modified by J. 10. It is said that this is the first time to fly with an all-metal plane. The route between Hamburg and Berlin was also opened in March; 19 19, sailing ceremonies were held one after another on several domestic routes, including Rump Le route from augsburg to Munich to Nuremberg to Leipzig to Berlin. 1926, some airlines that continue to operate eventually merged into Lufthansa, the predecessor of Lufthansa.

1965438+The Berlin-Weimar flight opened in February 2009 can be said to be the first daily passenger flight in the world, while the London-Paris flight of the air transport and tourism company is the first daily direct international flight.

1919 65438+1On October 8th, Switzerland opened an experimental military postal route between Zurich and Bern with Heiferi DH-3 biplane. In February of the same year 1, the route extended to Lausanne. Civil mail began to be delivered on May 5, and passengers began to deliver it in June, but this route was closed after 10 and never set sail again.

The predecessors of Belgian Airlines, Belgian Equatorial African Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, were established in 19 19, but these two companies did not undertake air transport business in this year.

19 19, the U.S. postal service opened the first intercontinental postal flights in the United States, and Eddie Hubbard started a pilot postal route between Seattle and Vancouver. This route is earlier than the direct passenger flights established by any American airline.