It ’s the 100 - year anniversary of commercial-grade flight of stairs travel . To celebrate , let ’s all check out this lovely interactive map , that shows the flight of stairs route and times of all the plane currently in the air .
The interactional map was create byThe Guardian , using data on both the time and routes taken by all the commercially - take flight planes today , and is a bang-up look into just how in use the skies above have fix .
Commercial travel first take off in 1914 , when the rather charmingly titledSt . Petersburg - Tampa Airboat Line began offeringpassengers the chance to grease one’s palms their way on to a flight of stairs . Passengers were charged $ 400 ( just a slight over $ 9,000 today ) , the only route available was a 29 - geographical mile hops across from Tampa Bay , and the trip take about 20 transactions . They were in business only three months and only transported 1200 passenger in aggregate .
Today , The Guardian says that at any given moment there are over half a million the great unwashed in the gentle wind and they ’ve mapped out the escape patterns that criss - cross the world ( as see in this screenshot ) . Go mark out the full interactive function , complete with prison term and flightpaths , by clicking here .
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