Ready to Land in Hawaiian Paradise

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: Air traffic controllers in the U.S. handle around 44-million flights each year. The agency first began controlling the nation's airspace in 1958.

Airport Conditions for: Atlanta | O'Hare

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Above Orlando, FL

Business Travel Facts & Figures: The FAA reports that airliners carried approximately 776-million passengers in 2008! There are currently around 4,000 jet airliners flying in the U.S. to handle that load.

Airport Conditions for: Dallas-Ft. Worth | LaGuardia

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Cold Front Over Corpus Christi, TX

Business Travel Facts & Figures: Unruly passengers often can make the news. However, kicking a passenger off of a flight is a very rare incident. Of the more than 770-million passengers flying each year, only about 200-300 are removed for bad behavior.

Airport Conditions for: JFK | San Francisco

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Sunset Over Saint Croix, VI

Business Travel Facts & Figures: Southwest Airlines is the busiest of all U.S. airlines. American Airlines wins the title for most passengers on international flights.

Airport Conditions for: Miami | Los Angeles

Waterspout Near Saint Thomas, VI

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: The FAA reports that on average around 75-percent of all flights arrive on time each year.

Airport Conditions for: Phoenix | Boston

Storm System Over Flint, MI

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: The world's oldest continuously operating airport is in College Park, MD. The airport was founded in 1909 when Wilbur Wright began giving flight instructions to the first military aviators.

Airport Conditions for: Newark | Denver

Over Talkeetna, AK

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: The first female flight attendants took to the airways on May 15, 1930. Boeing Air Transport was the first to break the gender barrier and paid the pioneering women $125 per month.

Airport Conditions for: Charlotte | Chicago-Midway

Over Daytona Beach, FL

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: Qamdo Bangda Airport in Tibet is the world's highest airport at 14,219 ft above sea level. Arriving passengers are warned before landing to move slowly when leaving the plane and that they may feel light headed because of the thin air.

Airport Conditions for: Houston-Hobby | Las Vegas-McCarran

Clouds Above Dallas, TX

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: The first trans-Atlantic flight of a jetliner took place on Oct. 26, 1958. Pan American World Airways' Boeing 707 offered service between New York and Paris.

Airport Conditions for: Orlando | Reagan National

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High Above McKinley Park, AK

Business Travel Facts & Figures: The first non-stop, U.S. coast-to-coast flight took place in May, 1923. The trip took 26 hours, 50 minutes.

Airport Conditions for: Seattle-Tacoma | Tampa

Over Denver, CO

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International is the nation's busiest airport. Chicago-O'Hare comes in at #2 and Dallas/Ft. Worth rounds out the top three.

Airport Conditions for: Philadelphia | Ontario, CA

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In the Sky Above Nashville, TN

Business Travel Facts & Figures: The first round-the-world, nonstop flight took place in 1949. Captain James Gallagher and a crew of 14 flew a B-50 Superfortress and averaged 249 miles per hour. The plane was refueled four times in the air.

Airport Conditions for: Salt Lake City | Cleveland

Christmas Eve Above Macon, GA

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: The busiest air travel day of the year is not during the holidays. In fact, the nation's airports are at their most full during the summer. Holiday air travel days usually don't crack the top 10 in annual passenger traffic.

Airport Conditions for: Cincinnati | Honolulu

Looking Down on Sierra Nevada Mountains

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: If you don't like long flights, you may want to reconsider taking Singapore Airlines' Los Angeles to Singapore route. The trip takes a total of 18 1/2 hours! It is the longest commercial flight in the world.

Airport Conditions for: Atlanta | O'Hare

Space Shuttle Launch View

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: Federal Express is the largest airline carrier employer in the world. The company has over 90-thousand full-time employees and more than 40-thousand part-time employees. The largest passenger airline employer is American.

Airport Conditions for: Dallas-Ft. Worth | LaGuardia

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Cloud Formations Over Dallas, TX

Business Travel Facts & Figures: Miami International is the nation's leader for international travel. New York's JFK handles the second largest amount of passengers traveling abroad.

Airport Conditions for: JFK | San Francisco

Taken in Nashville

(iWitness contributor Ransch)

Business Travel Facts & Figures: Before making aviation history, Wilbur and Orville Wright were bicycle builders from Dayton, Ohio. Their first 'experimental craft' was a simple kite.

Airport Conditions for: Miami | Los Angeles

(iWitness contributor Sanste)

Chicago from the Clouds

Business Travel Facts & Figures: In 2008, approximately 31-million pieces of luggage arrived late to their destination.

Airport Conditions for: Phoenix | Boston

Thunderstorm Over Minneapolis

(iWitness contributor micief)

Business Travel Facts & Figures: Airplanes are heavier than air and fly because of the aerodynamic force generated by the flow of air over the lifting surfaces. Balloons and airships are lighter-than-air, and fly because they are buoyant.

Airport Conditions for: Newark | Denver

(iWitness Contributor DutchAndy)

Sunset Over the North Sea

Business Travel Facts & Figures: As a general rule, it takes a day for your body to adjust to each time zone crossed. Jet lag is often more common and more dramatic in your eastbound travel (e.g., from Tokyo to San Francisco than from San Francisco to Tokyo).

Airport Conditions for: Charlotte | Chicago-Midway

Above Logan, OH

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: One of the first, if not the first, passenger airlines in the world flew between Tampa, Florida, and nearby St. Petersburg in 1914. The business did well during tourist season, but eventually failed later that same year when the tourists returned north for spring.

Airport Conditions for: Detroit | Minneapolis-St Paul

Colors Over Denver, CO

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: In 1940, the U.S. military was ordering only about 1,200 new airplanes a year. At the height of World War II in 1944, it was ordering more than 50,000 a year.

Airport Conditions for: Houston-Hobby | Las Vegas-McCarran

Heavenly Sight

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: The Wright brothers waited five years after their first successful flight to announce their discovery to the general public. They waited until they were sure their patent would be protected.

Airport Conditions for: Philadelphia | Ontario, CA

Rain Clouds Near Albuquerque, NM

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Business Travel Facts & Figures: Henry Ford is known for his role in the development of the auto industry, but he also played a large role in the creation of a viable commercial airline industry. In 1925, Ford began building the Ford Tri-Motor airplane, the first airplanes used by America's commercial airlines.

Airport Conditions for: Salt Lake City | Cleveland