To celebrate the anniversary of 100-years of commercial flight travel, The Guardian has created a lovely interactive map that shows the flight paths and times of all the planes currently in the air.
In 1914, the rather charmingly titled St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line began offering commercial passengers the opportunity to take a flight. Passengers were charged $400 (just a little over $9,000 today), the only route available was a 29-mile hop across from Tampa Bay, and the trip took about 20 minutes. They were in business only three months and only transported 1200 passengers in total.
Today, The Guardian says that at any given moment there are over half a million people in the air and they've mapped out the flight patterns that criss-cross the world (as seen in this screenshot). Go check out the full interactive map, complete with times and flightpaths, by clicking here.
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