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Kōrero: Transport – overview

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.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

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

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

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

He kōrero nā James Watson, i tāngia i te 10 June 2013.