Today in airline history lists historical airline events that happened on this day around the world.
This collection goes back over 100 years with 7293 + events currently recorded in the airline database. This list gets updated frequently with new airline events that may occur throughout the year.
Some well known events you might see within today in airline history are:
- The Wright brothers successfully taking to the air in 1903 with the first powered aircraft.
- The formation of the longest surviving airline with the same name KLM in 1919.
- BOAC flying the world’s first pure jet service in 1952.
- The first flight of Concorde in 1969.
To view our full list of airline events, please visit our main history page here.
Today in airline history, 12 events from 18th June:
The first direct transatlantic seaplane service was begun by Pan Am, from New York to Southampton
USAEdinburg Air Charter, founded on 18May1990 by John Easson, was renamed to Air Charter Scotland (ii)
United KingdomAll LEVEL Europe short haul flights from Amsterdam and Vienna were terminated
AustriaPasifika Air announced that lack of support from Cook Islands government had led to the grounding of the planned launch
New ZealandUnited Caribbean Airlines and JetAir Caribbean decided to cease all current flight operations meaning that all flights were cancelled, and JetAir's aircraft grounded
Curaçao