vintage posters are a throwback to the golden age of air travel .
they 're featured in a new coffee table book , airline visual identity 1945-1975 , which revisits a time when the skies were dominated by the likes of pan am , british overseas airways corp -lrb- boac -rrb- and continental .
new york was one of the most popular destinations featured in the adverts in airline visual identity 1945-1975 .