The date of Jan. 1, 1914, marked the world's first passenger airline service, endeavored by the aptly named “The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line,” which flew from St. Petersburg, Florida and landed in nearby Tampa.
The trailblazing company was operational for just four months, from January 1914 to May that same year, but it set the stage for what would inevitably become thousands of daily transcontinental flights.
