Look up in the sky. How many jets or jet-trails do you see? Where we live, we’re about 50 kilometers from our main airport. And, due to that relative proximity, dozens of airliners fly over our area each day. But did you know that, overall, there are about 100,000 aircraft that take off and land every day. At any given time, there are between 8,000 and 13,000 aircraft in the sky. If they have an average of 100 passengers per aircraft, that is over 1 million people in the air at any given time. Imagine the logistics of managing that. And, as the globe gets richer, so does the demand for flights. A recent visit to almost any airport will confirm how air travel has exploded, and there doesn’t seem to be any abatement in the near future.
It’s always a joy to look back at history if we can and compare it to our manic behaviour nowadays. Watch the video below from 1962 where US national TV treasure, Walter Cronkite walks you through those “simpler” times.
The skies were the limit back then – a typical Boeing 707 could course through the skies at 600 miles per hour. And the the Concorde came along and left them all in the dust.
This is worth taking a special trip, especially if you love retro mid-century-modern design like we do.
MCR and MORSE Development have reignited the magic of Eero Saarinen’s landmark 1962 TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, restoring and reimagining it as a first-class hotel. At the center of the hotel is Eero Saarinen’s iconic TWA Flight Center, where restaurants, bars and retail outlets have taken flight. Two hotel wings, designed to reflect and defer to the landmark TWA Flight Center, sit behind the historic building and contain 512 guestrooms with views of JFK’s runways and the TWA Flight Center. Click here to book.
In the buzzy Tribeca district, the hip Roxy Hotel will temp you with its art deco styling is built around a dramatic 8-story atrium. It’s 0.8 miles from the One World Trade Center.
