United Airlines will end the 32-year print run of it's airline-published inflight magazine at the end of this month.

Pan Am was the biggest U.S. airline of the early 50s, and in 1952, introduced the world's first airline-published inflight magazine, that was 72 years ago

The idea was a hit, and almost every other airline copied it.

The publications at Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines seem to have met their end as a result of the pandemic.

Then, in 2021, with the popularity of smart phones, tablets, I pads, an laptops, American Airlines stopped publishing a print edition of American Way, which had been around since 1966.

Now, UA stops their printed version of their magazine, Hemispheres, which started in 1992 when magazines really were picking up on popularity and becoming very popular. 

Getting rid of print magazines will reduce CO2 emissions by 13,000 metric tons, according to the same internal memo.

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