Explain how and why air transport has grown over time.

Explain how and why air transport has grown over time.

Change Over Time

June 1, 1956: First International flight out of Atlanta to Montreal

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Patterns and Trends

Air transport had an outburst over the years. Although the increase has been fairly recent, the changes were drastic over time. The low price of airline tickets and increased technology of the air transport system have made a major impact in the growth of this specific transportation. The reasons why that air transport is becoming more and more popular are the increase in demand and the expansion of the size of the airline industries.

As the World's busiest airport for passenger traffic, Hartsfield-Jackson is located in the business center and capital of Atlanta.

- It has the highest number of total passengers of about 7,300,000 people.

- It also has the second highest aircraft movements of 868,359.

- It is also a major hub for domestic flights in the Southeastern region of the United States.

- Primary hub for Delta Airlines

Specific Timeline

Feb. 26, 1949 - Mar. 2, 1949:

First 'round-the-world' non-stop flight

Apr. 6, 1924 - Sept. 28, 1924:

First 'round-the-world' commercial flight

Dec. 17, 1903:

First powered flight by the Wright Brothers

Oct. 1, 1969:

First time the Concorde has gone supersonic.

Feb. 9, 1969:

First Boeing 747 was flown from Amsterdam

Mar. 2, 1969: First test flight of Concorde 001.

Oct. 9, 1906:

First successful flight of a Zeppelins (LZ3)

Apr. 27, 2005:

The first Boeing A380 was taken off from Toulouse.

June 15, 1938 - Aug. 11, 1938:

First commercial flight across the Atlantic Ocean

May 2, 1952:

First commercial passenger jet (a de Havilland Comet) from LDN to JHN

General Timeline

1930:

KLM had been established and with it, first plane hostesses and in-flight movie entertainment was developed.

1914:

In Tampa Bay, the world's first scheduled plane service was opened.

1970's-80's:

Glamor of exclusive travel traded in for mass travel.

1919:

First daily International service was launched.

This graph represents the increase of demand for air transport. The yellow line is the RPK, which is a measure of traffic for an airline flight. The black line represents the FTK, which is a measure for actual freight traffic in air travel. Although the RPK is lower, both of these data are increasing over time with some fluctuations over the years.

WWII: Radar and jet engines were developed.

1903:

The first successful airplane was constructed by the Wright Brothers.

WWI: Governments poured money for faster and powerful planes. The planes were re purposed for commercial use.

2000's:

Oil crisis, terrorist attacks, and global recessions did not stop the increase the growth of the air travel industries.

1950's-60's: Foreign holidays became a interest to the wealthy and there began the reign of the MNCs.

Advantages/Disadvantages

- half a million people are in the sky right now

- interconnected world especially over Europe and Asia

- contributes 3% of global GDP

- a major employer because of the growing size of the industry

- aided to the shrinking of the world

- uneven distribution of connection to continents such as Africa and South America

- the amount of oil used is ridiculous (3 per economy, 5 per business, 9 per first)

- the availability of oil is staggering nowadays and the dependency will affect the industry harmfully

- environmentally unfriendly

• Airline Hub - airports that an airline uses as a transfer point to get passengers to their intended destination
• Deregulation - process of removing or reducing state regulations
• Jet Engine - engine that keeps the airplane on the air and moving
• Freight - good transported by aircraft
• Budget Airline - airlines that generally have lower fares and fewer comforts
• Commercial Air Travel - part of civil aviation that involves operating aircraft for hire to transport passengers or goods
• Carbon Emission - greenhouse gases
• Transit - passage from one place to another
• Stopover - brief stop in the course of a journey

WHY did it change?

• Increase in demand to travel internationally by businesses
• Expansion of the size of separate airlines
• Rise in competition of airline industries
• Boost in the demand to travel individually for tourism and leisure to foreign countries

HOW did it change?

In 2007, the DXB had only 34,348,110 total passengers, but in 2014, the numbers grew to 70,475636 passengers.

ICN only carried 1,705,880 tonnes of cargo in 2002 but it grew to about 2,557,680 tonnes of cargo in 2014.

In 2009, IST had only 283,169 total aircraft movements, but in 2014 IST grew to 439,549 movements.

• More passengers
• Expansion of air freight transport
• Increase in number of flights
• Elongated length of flight
• High passenger volume
• Maximization of passenger miles
• Development of cross-border (international) flights
• Doubling of efficiency of commercial aircraft

Explain how and why air transport has grown over time.

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