All decades of aviation have important developments and changes.
With over 300 color photographs with extended and informative captions, this book details the many facets of commercial air transport around the world, from the smallest to the largest airlines..
On a sad note, the 2000s saw the final Concorde services, bringing to an end the era of supersonic passenger flights for perhaps many years to come.
The old piston-powered props still served in remote parts of the world but in declining numbers.
It saw the early jets either disappear or get converted to haul freight.
In the 2000s, the European Airbus consortium finally overtook Boeing as the major producer of airliners, with a full range from the smallest, the A318, to the largest of all passenger aircraft, the A380.
All decades of aviation have important developments and changes