When We Fly

design. Andrew van der Westhuyzen

03-06-2010

client. Personal

medium. illustration

In an age where flying has become almost a reflex, just another mode of transport, the overall number of flights in the air at any particular point in time has reached truly staggering proportions.

According to the ACI(Airports Council International), in 2008, 4.874 billion passengers travelled by air on a total of 77 million flights. This particular view of the aerial next that spans the earth is based on one-minute snapshots of the number of passengers and planes in the air at a given moment in time - little blips on the global radar that add up to an impressive whole.

Featured in Dataflow 2 by Gestalten.

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