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Friday, March 22, 2024

VARIG: The Transatlantic Routes, c.1970

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  Remaining as Lusophone as our last post , here is a snippet of a folded, full-color map with the red routes of the storied Brazilian airli...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

TACV: Fly Non-Stop from Providence to Cabo Verde, 2015

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It is a little-known fact that the tiny State of Rhode Island, and much of the surrounding Southern New England region, particularly southea...
Monday, January 4, 2021

Malev: Budapest-Wien-München, Budapest-Zürich, c.1964

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  Starting off the Timetablist' s twelfth year where we left off in December: in Europe of the mid-20th century, here moving a bit furth...
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Saturday, December 19, 2020

Sabena: New York to Brussels to Paris via Hélicoptère, c.1957

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  A lesser-remembered chapter of the old Belgian flag-carrier Sabena is the airline's experiment with helicopter services. The handsome...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Sabena: Mexico City, Montreal, and New York aboard Caravelle Jets, c.1960s

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 Flying to Mexico City in another era: here's an old Newspaper advertisement in a shipping circular, in which the Belgian airline Saben...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Aeromexico: The Monterrey Hub, December 2015

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A third map from Aeromexico 's inflight magazine, focusing on the airline's secondary hub at the northern economic powerhouse of Mon...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Aeromexico: The North American Routes, December 2015

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 Continuing from the previous post , a second map from Aeromexico 's in-flight magazine at the end of 2015, showing the airline's ar...
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Friday, December 4, 2020

Aeromexico: The Intercontinental Routes, December 2015

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 Somehow in the storied history of The Timetableist , now approaching its 11th anniversary, the great air carrier of the Federal Republic of...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Qantas: FFC Sydney to London via Mexico, 28 November 1964

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 Having concluded November with an Olympic Kangaroo Stretch from Athens to Australia , we continue in December to span the globe with an Ant...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

First Flight Cover: Inaugural Olympic Airways Kangaroo Route, March 1972

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 The Timetablist periodically features rare examples of the famous Europe-to-Australia "Kangaroo Route" from decades in the past, ...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Air Liban to Europe and Africa, c.1952

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 Prior to becoming Middle East Airlines , the flag carrier of Lebanon was known as Air Liban . Formed in 1945, it quickly expanded across S...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Athens Airport Departure Board, 19 August 2017 (2)

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Continuing from the previous post , the departures leading to the noon hour shown on a second screen at Athens International Airport on 19 A...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Athens Departure Board, 19 August 2017 (1)

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 Two hours of mid-morning departures at Athens during what is by far the busiest time of year: the mid-August tourist rush. This block of f...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Air Malta Network, Summer 2011

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  Malta has long acted as a crossroads of the Mediterranean : stage of empires, prophets, and crusades. Today it is a densely-populated, pa...
Thursday, November 5, 2020

Libyan Arab Airlines Network, 1977

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Following on from the previous post , here is a newspaper advertisement for Libyan Arab Airlines from a few years later, which centers aroun...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Libyan Arab Airlines: Route Networks and Timetable, 1974

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  A few pages from a timetable brochure for Libyan Arab Airlines , the flag carrier of the then-5 year old Jamahiriya . The route map shows ...
Monday, November 2, 2020

ALIA: The Royal Jordanian Airline Network, 1984-85

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A loose cartography to show the route system of Alia: The Royal Jordanian Airline in the mid-1980s, when the carrier had ambitiously reach...

Gulf Air Network, c.1975

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  The wingspan of the Golden Falcon of Gulf Air reached broadly across the Eurasian continent in the mid-1970s, emblazoned on the tail of th...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Arik Air: 3x Weekly Dakar—Lagos, November 2018

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As is the customary life arc for a Nigerian airline, Arik Air is much diminished from its former glory ; its network is limited to th...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Turkish Airlines to Port Harcourt, 2019

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Continuing from the previous post, Turkish Airline s has grown over the last decade to become the airline serving the most destinations ...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Turkish Airlines to Luxor, October 2019

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A magazine advertisement announcing Turkish Airlines 's new link to Luxor , in the Upper Egyptian tourism zone along the Nile, whi...
Friday, May 29, 2020

Discover Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport, 2019

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While the last few posts have discussed Istanbul 's old Atatürk Airport, which closed last year to passenger flights, which shifte...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Istanbul Atatürk Airport Departure Board, December 2017

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Continuing from the previous post , some nine months and 12 hours later, the same departure monitor screens inside the Turkish Airlines ...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Istanbul Atatürk Departure Board, Late March 2017

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The mid-day departure board at Istanbul 's Atatürk Airport on one of the last days of March, 2017. The home base of Turkish Airlines...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

AtlasGlobal Destinations, January 2018

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A somewhat strange, translucent adverting stand placed in the lower level of the (now closed) Istanbul Ataturk Airport—one of those disa...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Azerbaijan Airlines Timetable, 2016 (Post 2 of 2)

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Continuing from the previous post , the second page of Azerbaijan Airlines 's inflight magazine shows the airline's pair of dome...

Azerbaijan Airlines Timetable, 2016 (Post 1 of 2)

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Another page from the back of the Azerbaijan Airlines in-flight magazine, which publishes the state carrier's entire schedule—some...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

AZALJET Timetable, 2016

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This may be one of the only timetables published of AZALJET , the low-cost leisure division of AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines, which was anno...
Friday, May 8, 2020

AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines Network, mid-2016

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Following on the previous post, by staying in the trans-Caspian region: here is the route map of another post-Soviet, Central Asian fla...
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Thursday, April 30, 2020

Air Astana: Nine Times Weekly from Dubai to Almaty, late 2019

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A print advertisement for the Kazakhstani flag carrier, Air Astana , promoting the airline's ample schedule of services from Dubai ...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Fly Somon Air, October 2016

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Staying in the Central Asian region, and focusing on the here is a banner display stand for the privately-owned Tajikistani carrier , S...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Turkmenistan Airlines: Route Map, c.2016

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This rather incredible specimen is featured on the non-official website of Turkmenistan Airlines —or at least one of the most prominen...
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