（浙江省永嘉县2013届第一次适应性考试，四C）
Today most countries have at least one airline that flies to foreign countries and one airline that flies inside the country. Some countries have several of each.
The world's first passenger airline was called the St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line. This St. Petersburg was in Florida in the USA, and the airline took passengers on a 20-mile flight across Tampa Bay. It operated for only four months from January 1914.
The first European airline flew every day from Berlin to Weimar. Called Deutsche Lutt-Reederei (DLR), it started to operate on 6 February 1919. At first it carried only mail and newspapers, but before long it took passengers as well. The planes were open to the air so passengers had to wear special clothing and shoes to protect them from the wind, rain and cold.
In March 1919 the first international airline began to operate. Lignes Aeriennes Farman flew once a week between Paris and Brussels. The journey took two hours and 50 minutes. Later that year, an English airline, Air Transport and Travel, flew every day from London to Paris.
