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by SoOvErHim4 on June 11th, 2006

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What was the date of the first airlines that carried people across the country when it opened for business?

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  • by keithold is a prodigal bagger on April 14th, 2007

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    G'day SoOvErHim4,

    Thank you for your question.

    The first private airlines started in the 1920s primarily to deliver mail. According to Wikipedia, "By the mid-1920s, the Postal Service had developed its own air mail network, based on a transcontinental backbone between New York and San Francisco. To supplant this service, they offered twelve contracts for spur routes to independent bidders: the carriers that won these routes would, through time and mergers, evolve into Delta Air Lines, Braniff Airways, American Airlines, United Airlines (originally a division of Boeing), Trans World Airlines, Northwest Airlines, and Eastern Air Lines, to name a few."

    By 1925, passenger airlines started in earnest. Pan-Am was the first international airline and the only one before the 1940s.

    I have attached services for your reference.

    Regards

    Reference
    Wikipedia Airline
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline
    Social Impact of Air Travel
    http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Social/impact/SH3.htm

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