Talk:Florida Airways

Removing untrue claim "second airline in the world to start regularly scheduled passenger services".

This claim: "Florida Airways was the second airline in the world to start regularly scheduled passenger service behind Ford Air Transport Service on June 1, 1926." has two citations (Joe Christy, LeRoy Cook, American Aviation, and Kevin M. McCarthy, Aviation in Florida), but it has two blatant falsehoods, which I'm going to remove. These falsehoods can easily be verified as such.

First of all, Ford Air Transport Service was a freight and mail carrier only; it never provided passenger service. Secondly, and more importantly, European airlines had been providing regularly scheduled passenger service for years before either Florida Airways or Ford Air Transport Service began operations. Regular passenger services were started between London and Paris in the fall of 1919 by several companies, including Aircraft Transport and Travel, Handley Page Transport, and Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes, among others. By the 1920s there were many European airlines providing regular passenger services. There is certainly room to argue about who exactly provided the first regularly scheduled passenger airline service (it depends on definitions), but Florida Airways and almost all other U.S. airlines are far out of the running.

Either the cited sources for the above statement do not actually support these claims (which may be difficult to determine, since no page information is included in the citations), or, if they do make these claims, they are grossly incorrect, in which case better sources should be found.

--Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 23:08, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

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