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Western Air Express . . . . Skyway to the Nation's Playground [[image]]Upper––View of Boulder Dam and Lake Mead from Western Air Express Mainliner. [[image]] Left––Fishing is great at Glacier and Yellowstone. WESTERN AIR EXPRESS, America's pioneer airline, is truly the Skyway to the Nation's Playgrounds. Operating a border-to-border system extending from San Diego-Los Angeles to Glacier Park, Western Air Express provides California with air service to Boulder Dam, Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Cedar Breaks, Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, the Craters of the Moon, the famous Montana Dude Ranch and Jackson Hole Areas, and Glacier's band of Shining Mountains. Via luxurious Douglas Mainliner service of Western Air Express, the Los Angeles traveler is only 1 1/2 hours from Boulder Dam-Lake Mead Recreational Area, 7 1/2 hours from Yellowstone and the Grand Teton-Jackson Hole Area, 7 1/3 hours from the Montana Dude Ranch country and 10 1/2 hours from Glacier. Western Air Express is a major link in the mainline mid-continental airway and its passengers enjoy a grand-stand seat view of mammoth Boulder Dam, beautiful Lake Mead, largest man-made lake; of Zion's deep-cut gorgeously colored canyons and of the magnificent Cedar Breaks as they wing their way east on Western Air-United Airline's main line, the oldest transcontinental air route. Los Angeles is just 6 1/2 hours from Denver, 11 3/4 hours from Chicago, 15 3/4 hours from New York, via Western Air-United Airlines main line. Three convenient transcontinental schedules daily are available to Southland travelers. Sky Lounge by day, and Sky Sleeper by night, the luxury and speed of flying the main route east is a travel treat every Los Angelan should experience. Another vacation feature is found in Western Air Express all-expense tours. You may step up to the ticket counter at Union Air Terminal and there purchase your entire two weeks' vacation itinerary including air transportation, hotel accommodations, meals and grand tours, all wrapped up in one package for your convenience. Western Air Express invites you to bring the children along. Children love to fly in Western Air Express luxurious main liners, and now children between twelve and two only pay half-fare. Little tots under two are carried free. Western Air Express is truly the family air line. Of course, when traveling, costs are to be considered. By comparison, flying Western Air Express costs less than driving. Conservative driving costs average five cents per mile. Regular air fares are cheaper, and Western Air Express vacation excursion fares reduce your travel costs to 3 1/2 cents per mile. Your air fare includes meals and there are no extras. For example, it costs only $63.44 to fly from Lost Angeles to Yellowstone and return; only $20.00 to Las Vegas-Boulder Dam and return. As a matter of fact, you can purchase an all-expense one-day tour to Boulder Dam, including your air transportation, a thorough inspection tour of the Dam and a boat ride on Lake Mead, for $25.00-all inclusive. Today all America flies and Western Air Express has modernized and streamlined an old slogan-"See All America First-By Air." [[image]] WESTERN AIR EXPRESS Coast-to-Coast Connections 29
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Upper Image is an aerial shot of Boulder Dam with visible airplane wing in the image.
Left Image captures a man wearing waders in knee high water. He is holding a fishing pole and wearing a cowboy hat. Background captures large river rocks and cascading water.
Image at end of article is a map of the United States showing the Western Air Express and United Air Lines routes.