About

Airline Atlas is a celebration of the single journey. It could be one you have done hundreds of times, one that's so familiar to you that you recognise every turn the aircraft makes, or might be one you will ever only do once in your life time.

This project enables you to create beautiful printed maps of your favourite flight. A way to remember a flight that you have taken based on real world flight data.

Today, we take our trips across the world mostly for granted and when see a airline map, it's usually a busy matrix of intersecting lines. Airline Atlas enables you to create a lasting printed memory for one flight.

There is a rich history of maps like these. Here's a few examples:

KLM famously made a whole book in 1933 that covered their route from Amsterdam to Batavia (now Jakarta) with stops along the way. Part guide book, part airline route map it guided passengers on a journey almost half way across the world.

Sabena produced a whole series of individual route maps, charting the route of a single journey. From Brussels to New York and back again, each with a slightly different design.

In 1934, Imperial Airways, the precursor to today's British Airways, produced a range of posters celebrating a single route. Granted, a single route back then would have multiple stop-overs. Designed by Theyre Lee-Elliott, these art deco poster would distill the route from London to Africa into a single, simple but beautiful map.

The Project Sunrise test flight from Melbourne to Toulouse, undertaken by the Airbus A350-1000 in 24 hours and 24 minutes. Here in A2 and framed.

The maps that you can create in Airline Atlas have been carefully crafted both to accurately showcase the route but also to display the oceans and the mountains alongside key details.

Get in touch

For questions, print-order support, or corrections to a route map, email us at christian@directionoftravel.com. Please include the map URL and a screenshot so we can investigate it.