Travel Brand Flight 001 Commemorates 10 Year Anniversary

April 8, 2009 - PRLog -- TRAVEL BRAND FLIGHT 001 COMMEMORATES 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY


New York – April 8 - Flight 001, the world’s only travel store, is celebrating ten years of bringing style and comfort back to air travel.

“After ten years, it is very exciting to realize we have become an international brand,” said co-founder Brad John. Brad, along with co-founder John Sencion, conceived of Flight 001 on a flight to Paris after the two colleagues had each spent exhausting days racing around from store to store preparing for the trip. “When we started the brand, we were essentially targeting ourselves – frequent international travelers who needed a one-stop travel shop,” said John. The first Flight 001 store opened in New York City’s West Village on April 17, 1999, and won immediate acclaim for its striking retail environment, which featured curving white walls and warm walnut accents reminiscent of a 747 jet fuselage.

Flight 001 placed their subsequent store locations in similar neighborhoods in other cities with large contingents of international travelers, like San Francisco and Chicago. In each destination, they have attracted loyal frequent flyers who respond to the brand’s retro-modern design and well-curated merchandise, from sleek trolleys to in-flight amenity kits to innovative space-saving bags from the brand’s own Spacepak series.

Brad and John took the inspiration for their name from Pan Am’s historic flight around the world, which was the first of its kind and operated for 40 years. “That flight continues to be such a perfect inspiration for us, because it made the entire globe accessible,” said John. “That’s the vision we create with our brand.”

After ten years of promoting international travel, Flight 001 will be a global presence itself. This year, Flight 001 is expanding its franchise with an Australian partner – Flight001.com.au launched last week, to be followed shortly by physical store locations in Sydney and New Zealand.

ABOUT FLIGHT 001

Flight 001, the world’s only travel lifestyle brand, is an all-inclusive retail experience that addresses every travel need with style and comfort. The name was inspired by PAN AM Flight 001, the world’s first round-the-world flight, which made stops in Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Calcutta, Delhi, Beirut, Istanbul, Frankfurt, London, and New York. Flight 001’s signature store environment evokes nostalgia for an earlier, more glamorous era of air travel. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the brand has seven retail stores nationally, a well established e-commerce site, and its own award-winning

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Flight 001, the world’s only travel lifestyle brand, is an all-inclusive retail experience that addresses every travel need with style and comfort, evoking nostalgia for an earlier, more glamorous era of air travel.