Airline Timetables
Airline timetables are useful to better understand how travelers would have traveled, both past and present. These timetables can help answer questions like:
- How long would the flight have taken?
- What flights are one-way? What flights require transfers?
- What airline companies utilize which routes?
- What airline companies no longer exist? Which ones still exist?
Please see below, for examples of airline tables that can be useful to your research. Make sure to review newspapers, guidebooks, and city directories to find these timetables.
Catalog Tips
When searching for airline timetables in our Online Research Catalog, we recommend the following keyword or subject search. Please note that you will find more results if you do not include the area of interest, when doing your search:
- Airlines timetables [area of interest]
- Examples: Airlines timetables or Airlines timetables Europe
- Airlines Timetables Periodicals [area of interest]
- Airlines Directories
- Airways Timetables
- Airways Directories
A similar keyword search can be utilized in other digital repositories, such as Hathi Trust.
As noted above, timetables are also often time found within periodicals. As such, check out our Timetables main tab, to see how you can locate digitized periodicals through New York Public Library's databases.
A Selection of Airline Timetables
- Air travel guide. 1930
- 3-VDS (Air travel guide) v. 3,no.2,3,4
- Bradshaw's international air guide. 1934-1948
- VDYE (Bradshaw's international air guide)
- OAG desktop flight guide (Worldwide ed.), 1991-1995
- JSP 92-37
- OAG desktop guide (Worldwide ed.), 1995-1999
- JSM 98-37
- OAG flight guide. Worldwide, 1999-
- *R-BIZ HE9768 .O33
- JSN 95-82
- JSN 00-7
- JBN 17-9
- *R-SIBL HE9768.O33
- OAG flight planner. Worldwide [CD-ROMs]. 2003-2007
- *WSC-3310
- Official airline guide. Quick reference international edition. 1963-1976
- VDS (Official airline guide, International quick reference edition)
- Official airline guide. 1964-1965
- VDS (Official airline guide. World-wide edition)
- Official airline guide. 1965-1968
- VDS (Official airline guide. World-wide edition)
- Official airline guide. Worldwide edition, 1976-1991
- JSP 76 476
- The Official guide of the airways, 1929-1948
- VDS (Official aviation guide)
- Official steamship & airways guide international, 1932-1963
- TRA+ (Official steamship & airways guide interational)
- Sky lines, 1932-1934
- 3-VDS+ (Sky lines) v. 1-3 (Aug. 1932-Feb. 1934, Inc.)
- Universal airline schedules : United States and international passenger, air mail and cargo information., 1943-194
- VDS (Universal airline schedules)
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- Newman's Indian Bradshaw; a complete guide for railway and airway travellers in India, Pakistan and Ceylon. 1978-1979; microform, 1969-1978\
- *ZAN-*O83
- JFL 86-294
- The Official guide of the airways ... 1929-1947
- VDS (Official aviation guide)
- VDS (Official guide of the airways)
- Covers America, Europe, and West Indies.
- Orario delle linee aèree civíli italiàne. 1931-1940
- VDS (Italy. Aviazione civile e traffico aereo, Ufficio. Orario delle linee aeree civili italiane)
- Covers Italy.
- Thomas Cook airports guide. Europe, 1985-1993/1994
- JSP 88-49