Commercial aviation
Commercial aviation is the part of civil aviation (both general aviation and scheduled airline services) that involves working aircraft for hire to transport passengers or multiple loads of cargo.
The Air Commerce Act of 1926 began to allow commercial aviation by creating standards, facilitation, and promotion.[1]
Commercial Aviation Media
Map of scheduled airline traffic around the world, circa October 2024. It contains 33045 routes.*Base map is NASA Blue Marble (PD) plus airports from file:World-airport-map-2008.png, route data is from Airline Route Mapper.*Generated using Cartopy and Matplotlib (LGPL license). Heavily inspired by file:World-airline-routemap-2009.png.
The World areas covered by Commercial Air Routes, shown in black, in 1925
A commercial aviation scene at Palma de Mallorca, the airport of Mallorca, Spain. Passengers board an EasyJet Airbus A320 (2010)
Variety of commercial airliners at Tokyo Narita Airport
