| TAI (TRANSPORT AÉRIENS INTERCONTINENTAUX)
PARIS, FRANCE, 1950 ARTIST: VIC Description: Original Vintage Airlines Travel poster published by TAI (TRANSPORTS AÉRIENS INTERNATIONAUX), a private French airline, based at Orly Airport, Paris. In the early 1950s its routes were Paris - Tunis - Damascus - Karachi - Bangkok - Saigon - Hanoi, Paris - Algiers - Fort Lamy (now N'Djamena) - Douala - Brazzaville - Tananarive (Antananarivo), Paris - Casablanca - Bamako - Abidjan, and Paris - Casablanca - Bamako - Dakar. By 1957 the route continued beyond Saigon to Darwin, Brisbane, Noumea, and Auckland. In 1963, TAI merged with Union Aéromaritime de Transport on 1 October 1963 to form UTA French Airlines. |
