Imagine a flight where you can actually get up and walk around, socialize, have a cocktail. Enter the flying-boat. Not really safe, but certainly a luxurious way to travel to the most exotic spots on the globe. If only luxury travel marketing could be so simple today.

FUN FACT: Just a few years after this ad came out, Imperial Airways merged with the British Overseas Airways Corporation, which then merged again with the British European Airways Corporation to become what we now know as British Airways.  (Source: Wikipedia)