This month, we had an advertisement from a 1971 issue of
The Economist for an airline which no longer exists.
Click or tap on the ad to reveal the answer.
How to guess it?
The “Sunshine States of America” expression used on this advertisement would most likely be used by an airline based in the “Sunshine State” (Florida). The mention of a London – Miami route serves as another clue towards this. In addition, what if the airline used a sun as a logo? But above all, there’s the slogan “I’m (name of girl here). Fly me.” Only one airline ran this type of advertisement at the time. Only one airline was famous for it. If you answered Pan Am, you were close, but not close enough, because the airline in question didn’t merge with Pan Am until about 10 years later (1980).
Statistics
In a multiple-choice poll,
31% of players got the right answer, and 69% got the wrong answer. The most popular wrong answer was Pan Am (24%), followed by Continental (22%).
