Pubity on Instagram: "😭 The first commercial airline flight took place on January 1, 1914, when pilot Tony Jannus flew a Benoist XIV flying boat from St. Petersburg to Tampa, Florida. Operated by the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line and built by Orville Wright’s contemporaries in early aviation, the 23 minute flight carried a single paying passenger and marked the first scheduled, ticketed air service in history, proving that air travel could function as a viable commercial business rather tha