Air transportation was slow to take off after the Wright Brothers breakthrough at Kitty Hawk in 1903. More than ten years passed before first faltering efforts to launch scheduled passenger services. On January 1, 1914, the world’s first scheduled flight with a paying passenger hopped across the bay separating Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida for a fare that eventually stabilized at $10 per person, round-trip (about $200 in 2006 dollars). By comparison, Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) Southwest Airlines could carry a passenger on a Tampa to Seattle round-trip, more than a hundred times farther, for only slightly more than $200 in 2007. Thus, in the 1930s and 1940s an airfare could account for up to 50% of the average annual per capita income of an American, by 2010 this figure was reduced to less than 2%.