Timeline Thursday 1 January 1914

Events on Thursday 1 January 1914 1

• 1914 First scheduled commercial airline flight The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line begins service in Florida Pilot Tony Jannus flew a Benoist airboat carrying a single paying passenger across Tampa Bay, inaugurating the world's first scheduled airline using a fixed timetable. The short-lived line proved that regular passenger air travel was commercially viable. It is widely cited as the birth of the airline industry.