Travel by air is becoming almost as common place in the 21st century as walking was for our ancestors. Whether on business or for pleasure, we fly at the cick of a mouse, to the four corners of the earth. Furthermore thanks to travel search engines and low cost airlines, we even decide to go, not to a place of choice, but to where the cost is least. These are extraodinary freedoms. Air travel and air freight are, at the same time, sinews of a growing,internet- linked, just in time, global economy. The growth is explosive. Since 1949, the birth year of the first passenger jet, air travel has grown 70 fold.

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