Ask a Question
or
Create a Poll
  1. Home /
  2. Questions /
  3. Transportation
  4. / Planes And Aviation
  5. / Commercial And Civil Aviation
  6. / More Commercial And Civil Aviation

by Drublic on February 8th, 2007

Drublic

Question

Help answer this question below.

What was the first commercial airline?

  • Like
  • Report
Share:
Other

Answers. 1 helpful answer below.

  • by Firebrand on February 8th, 2007

    Firebrand

    The First Commercial Airline was a german flight on November 16, 1909, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin and a group of entrepreneurs created the first passenger airline, called Deutsche Luftschiffahrt Aktien Gesellschaft (DELAG).
    Between 1910 and 1914, DELAG carried 35,000 passengers around Germany via "zepplins," a form of airship named after their inventor. Tickets cost 100 to 200 reichsmarks each and were sold mostly to wealthy foreign tourists. World War I interrupted service, and flights were briefly resumed after the war.

    The world's first scheduled passenger airline using an airplane was probably the St. Petersburg-Tampa Air Line (also called the "Airboat Line"). On January 1, 1914, pilot Tony Jannus flew one passenger across Florida's Tampa Bay in a Benoist type XIV flying boat. While it only operated for three or four months, the airline's twice daily roundtrips greatly influenced commercial aviation.

    Another early pioneer offered a scheduled passenger service in California. Silas Christofferson seems to have had a short-lived service flying people between the ports of San Francisco and Oakland in 1913. Unfortunately, few details about this airline are available on the Web.

    Source Wik

    • Like
    • Report

    No comments. Post one | Permalink

Want to attach an image to your answer? Click here.

Did this answer your question? If not, then ask a new question or create a poll.

More Questions. Additional questions in this category.

You're reading What was the first commercial airline?

Follow us on Facebook!

Related Ads

Related Questions

Professionally Researched

ANSWERBAG BUZZ

When were the first commercial airlines available
Commercial airline history
What influence commercial avisltion
Silas christofferson
What television has helped the society

Answerbag

a Demand Media company