Modern Travel · event 7 of 19

1958

The Boeing 707 enters service. Transatlantic jet service begins. Journey times halve and the cost per seat begins a fall that does not stop. The 747 follows in 1970 and collapses it further.

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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