The Land of the Rising Sun has had regularly scheduled commercial air service since the early 1920s, with the exception of a few years during that war which shall go unnamed. As an archipelago, Japan has constantly benefited from aviation as a way to connect the various islands at jet speed. Meanwhile, airlines from Europe […]
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When people think about vintage airline posters and international travel, they often think far-away lands and far-flung destinations. Mexico, though, has always been a top destination (at least for U.S. travelers) because of its enchanting culture, incredible history, amazing food, welcoming people, varied natural wonders, and—of course—its proximity. Airlines have been shuttling people across the
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Remote and exotic, the islands of Hawaii still hold the promise of paradise here on Earth. To sell tickets to Paradise, airlines toggled between images of lush land- and seascapes and salacious depictions of the islanders: surf, sun, and skin. That combination still seems to work, as some 9 million people visited the archipelago last
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Flying since 1946, Ethiopian Airlines has connected the land of Haile Selassie and the Queen of Sheba to the world. The airline now flies a fleet of Boeing and Airbus jets to 122 destinations around the globe from its hub at Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport. But it got its start with just five routes,
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Russia got Hungary, ate Turkey, fell on Greece and broke China. We learned that little ditty in nursery school, and while it may not have happened in that order, there was obviously some allusion to the Soviet Union’s global sphere of influence during much of the 20th century. As menacing as that may have seemed,
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In commemoration of my recent weekend in The City, VTP (Vintage Travel Posters) is back with a few artistic flights of fancy that enticed travelers from the world over to spend a weekend in … The City! If you liked these, check out VTP India, Rio, and Paris!
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This post is part of a (quasi-)monthly series of eye candy at Fly Brother, imaginatively named VTP (short for Vintage Travel Posters). We’ll see how travel companies and bureaus have been enticing people off the couch since international leisure travel first became a bourgeois conceit. The very name of Paris implies joie de vivre, je
Few places stimulate the imagination for better or worse than India, though travel posters seem to have focused primarily on elephants, the Taj Mahal, and multi-armed Hindu deities to sell a continent-sized country full of over a thousand languages and just as many cultures. Still, the colorful, detailed designs make up for the lack of
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This is the first of a new monthly series of eye candy at Fly Brother, imaginatively named VTP (short for Vintage Travel Posters). We’ll see how travel companies and bureaus have been enticing people off the couch since international leisure travel first became a bourgeois conceit. Our first destination: the marvelous city of Rio de
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