Front cover of a vintage airline timetable from United Air Lines dated effective February 1, 1944. The design features a bold red, white, and blue shield logo with the words “United Air Lines” above a stylized red silhouette of a four-engine airplane. The phrase “Route of the Mainliners” is written across the aircraft in script, with the layout repeated symmetrically across a fold.

Interior spread of the same 1944 timetable from United Air Lines showing a large red map of the United States covered with white route lines connecting major cities. A blue illustration of a four-engine propeller airliner flies above the map, while text at the top describes passenger capacity, speed, and wartime-to-peacetime aviation development. Labels identify cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, along with connections to Canada, Mexico, and overseas routes.

United Airlines Mainliner System Timetable 2.1.1944
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Front cover of a March 1946 timetable booklet for United Air Lines. The layout is divided into panels. The upper left shows small calendar grids for March and April 1946. The right side features a large shield-style logo in red, white, and blue reading “United Air Lines,” with the text “Effective March 1, 1946” above it. Below, an illustration of a four-engine propeller airliner in flight accompanies the phrase “Now in Service! Four Engined United Mainliner ‘230’s Coast to Coast.” The lower left panel includes a drawing of a twin-engine aircraft and the slogan “Now All Restrictions on Flying Removed – Fly United – The Main Line Airway Coast-to-Coast.” The design uses patriotic colors and bold typography, with slight wear visible on the paper.

Interior page of the same 1946 booklet for United Air Lines promoting air freight service. At the top, large text reads “Now – United Air Lines Air Freight.” To the left is a detailed illustration of cargo being loaded into a propeller aircraft using a lift truck, with workers handling crates. On the right is a block of text describing coast-to-coast shipping rates and services. The lower half features a detailed map of the United States with a network of routes; United’s primary routes are highlighted in red, connecting cities such as New York, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, with additional connections branching across the West Coast and Midwest. A legend distinguishes United routes from other airlines.

United Air Lines 1946 Four Engine Mainliner System Timetable
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Illustrated airline route map poster for National Airlines titled “The Buccaneer Route,” depicting its network along the eastern United States and Gulf Coast. The design shows a stylized map connecting cities from New York down the Atlantic seaboard through Florida and west to New Orleans. Major stops including Philadelphia, Charleston, Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami, and Key West are marked with red dots and linked by bold route lines. Above the map, silhouettes of propeller-driven airliners in red and blue fly in formation, reinforcing the mid-20th-century aviation theme. At left, a large illustrated buccaneer (pirate) figure in red and black costume with a raised sword symbolizes the airline’s “Buccaneer Route” branding. The background uses strong contrasting blocks of blue and white, with the airline’s circular logo prominently displayed. The composition emphasizes route coverage, regional identity, and the adventurous imagery associated with early commercial air travel.

National Airlines 1946 Buccaneer Route Map.
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1954 United Air Lines Advertisement
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This is a black-and-white airline advertisement dominated by a stylized route map of the western United States. Large text at the top reads, “the route map tells the story of service to the WEST.” The map shows Frontier Airlines routes drawn as thick black lines with white dots marking cities. States labeled include Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Numerous cities are named along the routes, such as Billings, Cheyenne, Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, Salt Lake City, and Bismarck, among many smaller regional stops. Arrows at the edges of the map indicate connecting service to major cities outside the region, including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and St. Louis. A dark oval on the right states that the routes offer connections “with all transcontinental airlines.” At the bottom, bold text reads “fly FRONTIER AIRLINES,” accompanied by a small airplane logo.

1955 Frontier Airlines Map
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1947 United Air Lines Mainliner 300 Douglas DC-6 Advertisement 
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Plane at gate

Map

Bonanza Air Lines Schedule Cover and Route Map from April 28, 1963
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Destinations go from California past Texas as far east as Louisiana. As far north as Denver and Kansas City.

1984 Southwest Airlines Route Map
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Red lines represent the many routes of American Airlines on this map of the United States. There is a beautiful shot of the Gulf of Mexico

1940 American Airlines System Map with the #GulfOfMexico
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All the land part of the map are orange, and you see lines indicating routes.

1955 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines West Indies Division Caribbean Routes with the #GulfOfMexico
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Art work of the American southwest. Routes are seen between places like Salt Lake City and Phoenix and Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

1961 Bonanza Air Lines Route Map.
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Cover of this timetable as a tail of a plane with the words We're Back, noting they were back after a pervious labor strike.

Route map shows destinations in Texas, Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, and New Mexico.

Old logo , Trans-Texas DC-9 flying high up

Trans-Texas (Texas International) Airlines Ephemera.
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Timetable Cover 2-23-1975
1969 Route Map
Trans Texas Airways DC-9 Postcard
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The tail of the F-27 is in the lower corner, and at the top is the airline name.

Inside of ticket jacket is the general information and an ad for Hertz

Back of ticket jacket has boarding pass information. In this case, It was Flight 111 leaving gate 1 for a flight to Phoenix

1967 Bonanza Air Lines Ticket Jacket with F-27 and Route Map.
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Front and back of the jacket. It's blue and shows a route map.

Inside the jacket shows an ad for Hertz car rentals.

1967 Bonanza Air Lines Ticket Jacket with Route Map.
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Route map with routes in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana,

prop plane is over a lake

4 engine plane is parked on the ramp

Air Wisconsin is in the news.
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Timetable and Route Map - 10/31/1971
F-27 Postcard N505AW
BAe 146 Postcard
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An enormous globe with a lot of activity. Below the globes it’s the ocean there is a Pan Am flying boat and a traditional schooner with sales. You see Poseidon, a mermaid all hanging around a sign for Pan Am. The globe has route maps throughout. The center is North America.

Happy New Years, May 2025 bring the world peace. 
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1941 Pan American World Airways Map.
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Routs through Mexico, Central America and South America

1950 Pan American World Airways Map Postcard
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Routes from Washington DC up to New York, Boston, and Canada

Pilgrim Airlines Route Map 2-1-1983
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Routes from the northeast to Florida and New Orleans.

New York Air Route Map 09-15-1985
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Map of the continental United States, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Lines are draw between destinations with thin blue lines. JFK and Long Beach are indicated as hubs.

jetBlue Route Map 2005.
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A view of the continental United States. There is a large AirTran A over Atalanta to show their hub. From there, lines are drawn across to and from destinations.

Cover of the brochure, it says "Everything You Wanted To Know About Us" Then there is a picture of a 717 tail.

2010 AirTran Route Map 7-2010
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