On This Date-Leah Noble

On October 10, 1959, Pan American World Airways announced the beginning of the first global airline service. This had a huge impact on the world, especially in the years to come. People were now able to travel around the world much faster and more easily than ever before. It made accessibility to places that people had only heard about and seen in pictures much greater. Today, this ability to go halfway around the world in less than a day is often taken for granted. But looking back to before this kind of travel existed, I think we appreciate it and see it as a great asset in that we have access to experience places and cultures that we would otherwise probably not even think about in our day to day lives. All in all, I think that the idea of the first global airline service in 1959 sparked something that exponentially grew into an amazing service we heavily rely on today, over 50 years later.