Subject:
The president’s display features a presentation on the mail from China that travelled by air at some point on its route. The display is broadly split into three sections: Pre-WW2 – when the six international airlines competed with one another on price and service; WW2 – with complex routes that were forced upon the carriers by military campaigns closing traditional routes; and Post-WW2 – although stability came back to the routes taken, hyperinflation caused chaos to the rates. Although all material shown has been flown, the treatment of the collection is fundamentally postal history rather than aerophilately.