Modern Travel · event 2 of 19

1903

The Wright brothers fly. Twelve seconds at Kitty Hawk. Within fifty years scheduled jet services cross oceans, and within seventy the cost per seat collapses to the point where a factory worker in northern Europe can spend a fortnight on the Mediterranean.

The Modern Travel era

  1. 1900
  2. 1903
  3. 1930s
  4. 1936
  5. 1950
  6. 1957
  7. 1958
  8. 1960s
  9. 1962
  10. 1973
  11. 1978
  12. 1985
  13. 1989
  14. 1994
  15. 2001
  16. 2008
  17. 2016
  18. March 2020
  19. 2024

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