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The glamour of air travel

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The glamour of air travel

A sunset view of Wellington Harbour from an aircraft is used on this 1959 poster, which somewhat misleadingly promises travellers a flight ‘in the still evening air’. By the 1970s more New Zealanders were taking advantage of cheaper flights to travel by air.

Poster courtesy of Air New Zealand.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-E-AVIATION-NAC-1959-02

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James Watson, Transport – overview – Air travel, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/24998/the-glamour-of-air-travel (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by James Watson, published 10 June 2013.