Some links to products and partners on this website will earn an affiliate commission.

Today’s Advent Calendar prize is a wonderful book, designed by Mark Ovenden and Maxwell Roberts, to celebrate 100 years of international passenger flight: ‘Airline Maps – A Century of Art and Design’. It really is the perfect Christmas gift for the aviation lovers amongst your family and friends!

From the first faltering flights over plains, water, and mountains to the vast networks of today, air travel has transformed the world and how people see it. Maps played their part in showing what was possible and who was offering new opportunities. As tiny operations with barely serviceable airplanes pushed out farther and farther, growing and merging to form massive global empires, so the scope of their maps became bigger and bolder, until the entire world was shrunk down to a single sheet of paper. Designs featured sumptuous Art Deco style, intricate artistry, bold modernism, 60s psychedelia, clever photography, and even underground map-style diagrams.

For the first time, Mark Ovenden and Maxwell Roberts chart the development of the airline map, and in doing so tell the story of a century of cartography, civil aviation, graphic design and marketing. Airline Maps is a visual feast that reminds the reader that mapping the journey is an essential part of arriving at the destination.”

How to enter…

Participating couldn’t really be easier – all you need to do is enter your name and email address here.

Good luck – and Merry Christmas!

The rules

Every day a winner is randomly drawn from all registrations and they will be notified via e-mail. In the event that the winner does not respond to this announcement within 7 days, the prize will not be awarded to them and will be assigned to a new winner. You can participate once a day.

By participating in the InsideFlyer Advent calendar you agree to receive a fortnightly newsletter email from InsideFlyer, but you can of course unsubscribe from that at any time.

InsideFlyer and our partners will do our utmost to ensure that prizes are received correctly, but cannot assume responsibility for errors by third parties (eg. delivery).

Prizes which may require delivery can only be sent to addresses within the UK.