Civil aviation

Civil aviation includes three major categories: Although scheduled air transport is the larger operation in terms of passenger numbers, GA is larger in the number of flights (and flight hours, in the U.S.[2]) In the U.S., GA carries 166 million passengers each year,[3] more than any individual airline, though less than all the airlines combined.

[5] After World War II, commercial aviation grew rapidly, using mostly ex-military pilots to transport people and cargo.

While it was a technical achievement, the airplane suffered a series of highly public failures, as the shape of the windows led to cracks due to metal fatigue.

The Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation was originally established in 1944; it states that signatories should collectively work to harmonize and standardize the use of airspace for safety, efficiency and regularity of air transport.

[7] Likewise, the number of registered carrier departures worldwide has reached a peak in 2015 with almost 33 million takeoffs.