When did transatlantic passenger flights start?
When did transatlantic passenger flights start? Modern passenger service across the ocean began on October 23, 1945, a date that will live in obscurity. At first I couldn't figure out what a Second Assistant Postmaster General was doing on a transatlantic press junket to London in late 1945. The New York Times said his name was Gail E. When was the first flight from England to America? On 4 October 1958, BOAC – today's British Airways – flew two de Havilland Comet 4 aircraft across the Atlantic: one from New York to London and the other from London to New...