Delta Air Lines on Wednesday announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation and the European Commission granted permission to Delta to expand its service at London's Heathrow Airport.
Alaska Airlines launches USSR service, a United DC-6 crashes in Pennsylvania, Pan Am begins round-the-world flights, Amelia Earhardt takes off on the world's first transatlantic flight by a woman, and more...
Ecuadorian national carrier TAME recently commenced its new passenger service to southern Florida when flight 562 landed at daybreak at Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport.
Best known for connecting small markets with popular tourist hot-spots, the self-proclaimed "Official Airline for Sunshine" will soon link to Myrtle Beach from Youngstown, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Ind., and Knoxville, Tenn.
Concorde breaks the sound barrier, West Coast Airlines Flight 956 becomes the first fatal DC-9 crash, NASA is born, and the F-86 and XP-59 take their first flights.