Dining Room of Boeing Clipper
Pan Am Clipper flying boats were the first true intercontinental passenger airplanes; they crossed the Atlantic and Pacific and circled Latin America in the 1930′s and 1940′s.
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Heinrich Kubis
In March, 1912, Heinrich Kubis became the first flight attendant in history when he began taking care of passengers and serving meals on the German airline DELAG.
Kubis began working as an air steward one month before the sinking of the Titanic, and more than 18 years before Ellen Church became the world’s first stewardess on May 15, 1930.
[Read more about the world's first flight attendant.]
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Air France Golden Parision, 1953
In 1953, Air France introduced its luxury “Golden Parisian” service.
The Golden Parisian used a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation (F-BGNI) which was able to fly nonstop between New York and Paris in just 12 hours.
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The first airliner to make scheduled passenger flights between Europe and the America was not an airplane, but the German zeppelin Hindenburg, which made 34 scheduled trips across the Atlantic in 1936.
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Fw 200 Condor in New York (click to enlarge)
On August 10-11, 1938, a Lufthansa Focke-Wulf 200 Condor airliner made a record-breaking nonstop flight across the Atlantic from Berlin to Floyd Bennett field in Brooklyn, New York.
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