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Vintage Airline Timetables, an Archive of Airline Route Maps, Airline Print Ads, Airline Schedules, New Airline Service Announcements, Airport Departure Boards, and First Flight Covers of New Airline Flights, and a leading source of original documentation of the History of Commercial Airline Service.

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Saturday, October 11, 2025

Qatar Airways Worldwide Network, 2011. Detail # 1: The Gulf Region & Western Hemisphere

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Continuing from the last post , here is the first in a series of posts about Qatar Airways from back in 2011, when it began on to nip at th...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Stockholm Arlanda Arrivals Board, May 2017

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Staying in Scandinavia , the display screens at Stockholm 's Arlanda Airport showing the bank of mid-morning arrivals in May 2017. Note ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Icelandair: Your way to Norway, 2011

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Continuing to look at Icelandic air carriers in the 21st century , here is a magazine advert for Icelandair , specifically highlighting th...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Wow Air Network, 2015

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 Continuing the wake for PLAY , here we see the fullest extent of its predecessor, the Barney-purple world of WOW Air . Thinner than either ...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Farewell to Icelandic PLAY Airlines, 2025

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  A billboard at Keflavík Airport , advertising the route system of ultra-low-cost airline PLAY as it appeared in September 2024. Heavy on...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Uganda Airlines: Current and Future Routes, 2025

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Although of the same name as the flag carrier featured in yesterday's post, Uganda Airlines of the 21st century is a new government vent...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Uganda Airlines: Route Map & Timetable, mid-1986

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  A classic handy pocket guide to the operations of Uganda Airlines , which at the height of its glory provided a tri-continental operation ...
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...
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...
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