Just like the steamship companies had, the airline industry found in Hawaii the perfect destination. Who wouldn’t want to visit the paradise clever advertising companies were marketing the world over?

In 1929 Inter-Island Airways--today better known as Hawaiian Airlines--began flying between the islands and in 1935 Pan American World Airways established a regular route with its China Clipper, a so-called flying boat made by Boeing.

With the arrival of large-capacity airliners, especially the 'Flying Clipper,' traveling between Hawaii and the American West Coast was brought back from six days by ship to eighteen hours by plane, and at roughly the same price!

Two main airline companies, Pan American Airways and United Airlines battled for passengers harder than any of their rivals and several of their posters have been preserved, often featuring the Clipper and its post-WWII cousin, the Stratocruiser.

Story of Hawaii offers a few specially priced sets of airline posters.