Alaska Airlines flight map. Not sure what year.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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Not gonna lie, go on a flight from France to South America on an Air France plane in 1954 would have been pretty sick. 100% they would have been smoking on those flights, back in my day even in the 80's airplane armrests still had those foldable ashtrays built in.
I mean have you ever wondered why there is a dedicated "NO SMOKING" sign next to the "SEATBELTS ON" sign, even though everyone knows you can't do that? It's funny to imagine what it would have been back then, it must have been fucking intolerable with the god damned smoke filling up the cabin, you'd be hotboxing carbon monoxide for hours on the flight.
But you were also "kind of" ok fucking the stewardesses (fully consensually), and there was an open bar, and probably fewer seats at passengers, so you had better legroom. Probably the food was also top notch.
I personally remember that question at check in: "Smoking or non-smoking?"
What are dashed lines, as what is the difference between solid and dashed routes? Frequency?
My problem with this map is plane routes don't look straight on Mercator projection. The routes are rhumb lines on this map, but intercontinental flights use routes on the great circle, which should look like arcs.
It's not clearly stated on the map. I suspect dashed lines are either infrequent ones or lines served by partner companies.
I realise that modern maps are better at conveying the information that they are supposed to conves. But these older ones just look like adventure - more like an advertisement than purely informational.