How has aviation changed the world?

Airplanes have fundamentally changed the way the world works. Most aspects of globalization would be unimaginable without them. Whereas it once took weeks to sail across an ocean and weeks more to travel across land to your destination, we can now travel halfway around the globe in around two days.



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Over long distances, there is no faster mode of transport than the airplane. For this reason, relief goods are mainly transported by air to conflict and disaster areas.

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Advantages of Air Transport
  • High Speed. Air is the type of freight capable of traveling long distances in short periods of time. ...
  • Fast Service. ...
  • Send almost everywhere your freight. ...
  • High Standard of Security. ...
  • Natural Route. ...
  • There is less need for heavy packaging.


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Air transport is at the heart of global economic growth. It creates employment, facilitates trade, enables tourism and supports sustainable development all around the world.

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Sir George Cayley In 1799, the man known as the “Father of Aviation” drew up the earliest known plans for an aircraft that used a fixed-wing design with separate mechanisms for lift and thrust.

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Although 80% of people have a fear of flying (aerophobia) only 5% of the world's population have been on an airplane. There are an average of 10,000 planes in the sky at any one time carrying roughly 1 million passengers. The Boeing 747 has roughly 6 million parts- that's a lot of pieces to keep track of and maintain!

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