This poster depicts a Lockheed Constellation (familiarly known as a “Connie”) on its final descent into New York City’s LaGuardia Airport. The airline would ultimately operate out of Idlewild Airport (later known as John F. Kennedy Airport) in 1949. TWA began its postwar operations in early 1946, with a fleet of ten “Connies.” Its logo featuring an arrow piercing the company’s initials was in use through 1947, but continued to appear in advertisements until the following year. This poster proved so popular that multiple variants, incorporating distinctive colored borders and text, were published into the 1950s. This version was intended for the French market and boasts some of the airline’s new destinations—the Middle East, India, Africa, Europe, and the United States—with a sweeping view of Manhattan standing in for all of them. It was in circulation between 1946 and 1948.