Ashtray T.A.I Airlines Advertising Ashtray - Circa 1950's

T.A.I Airlines Advertising Ashtray - Circa 1950's A large old 1950's era TAI AIRLINES pottery ashtray measuring 7 1/4" in diameter and made by SIMBARD, France. Condition is excellent.T.A.I. (Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux) was a private French airline, based at Orly Airport, Paris. In 1963, it was merged with Union Aéromaritime de Transport on 1 October 1963 to form UTA French Airlines. During the early 1950s, its routes were Paris - Tunis - Damascus - Karachi - Bangkok - Saigon - Hanoi, Paris - Algiers - Fort Lamy (now N'Djamena) - Douala - Brazzaville - Tananarive (Antananarivo), Paris - Casablanca - Bamako - Abidjan, and Paris - Casablanca - Bamako - Dakar. As the decade progressed these routes were extended - in 1957 the route continued on from Saigon to Darwin, Brisbane, Noumea, and Auckland. As the airport for Tahiti began construction, T.A.I. began to fly to Bora Bora on the Society Islands in French Polynesia in 1958. Until the Tahiti airport opened, the island was ser