Printed with a variety of textual variants, this poster is often also seen promoting travel to the United States via Frankfurt. West Germany did not have an airline that flew transatlantic routes until 1955, and Swissair took advantage of this, offering service to a variety of West German destinations from the United States. Swiss neutrality during World War II allowed Swissair to easily obtain foreign landing rights in the aftermath, quickly offering international service to destinations other airlines could not. In addition to its unique ports of call, the stereotypically Swiss virtues of punctuality and cleanliness were deployed in its advertising. In 1951, Henri Ott was commissioned to produce a series of posters for Swissair as it rolled out the DC-6B aircraft for its long-haul routes. He designed a variety of linocut images in vibrant colors, with this one for the United States focusing on the skyscrapers of New York City.