How Airliners Cut the Moscow-to-Gorky Trip to 30 Minutes

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The country’s first passenger airline launched in 1923. People could fly from Moscow to Gorky, saving a significant amount of time. A report on the airline’s operations says that in one year it carried 229 passengers. During those turbulent years, that was a remarkable achievement.
But now, such passenger flights can be completed in just 30 minutes. The Tu-104 can carry 229 people and deliver them to Gorky in half an hour.
And if all passengers between Moscow and Leningrad traveled by plane, and the annual number of travelers didn’t exceed 7,000,000, do you know how many planes that would require? Just six airliners!