Air Transport World has been bringing you news on the management of the world’s airlines since May 1964. We feel very honored and pleased to celebrate this milestone of 50 years of publishing with our readers. In my blog over the next several months I will be sharing events that occurred around the time that ATW published its first issue.

Post-Paris Air Show update on large turboprop

The Paris Air Show was a week of fierce storms, torrential rain and a downpour of multi-billion dollar deals as airlines and lessors continued their rush to sign up for efficient, eco-friendly aircraft and fuel-economic engines.

Shown are summer uniforms worn by the flight attendants in the late 1940s at Challenger Airlines. At the time, uniforms changed often. But then, so did airlines.

Temel Kotil became CEO at Turkish Airlines on March 24, 2003. He has transformed the flag carrier to one of the fastest-growing in the world. Turkish operates to 221 destinations with a fleet of 215 aircraft and continues its expansion.

With barely four months to go before the September ICAO assembly deadline for reaching a global agreement on market-based measures to offset aviation emissions, the prospects seem somber.

University of North Dakota department of aviation chair Kent Lovelace remembers a time—not too long ago—when student pilots were eager to go work for airlines.

There are a number of important benchmarks in the next 12 months beginning in January of 2014 when the industry will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first commercial airline flight that took place between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Fla.