Summary AIRPORT HISTORY

The epitome of passenger plane travel was the luxurious flying boat, an innovative airplane that used its smooth reinforced underbelly to takeoff and land. All one needed was a few hundred feet of calm seas and a dock. In fact, the very first passenger airline actually started as a seaplane service in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Miami's Dinner Key became America's very first international airport offering trips to southern international destinations on Pan American airlines. Efficiency and Organization Efficiency and organization became a keystone as architects built new airports in places like Germany, France, and England. This attention to efficient traffic flow is apparent at London's Gatwick Airport, which opened for international passenger service in 1936. The beehive terminal allowed a plane landing at Gatwick open field runway to park at one of many gates rather than one.