Per Airships.Net, “American Airlines timetables from 1936 and 1937 advertised “World-Wide Air Service” from 57 cities in the United States to destinations around the world, via American Airlines to Lakehurst [NJ], Hindenburg to Frankfurt, and connections on Deutsche Lufthansa, Imperial Airways, KLM, and Air France.”
For just $555.95, you could get from Los Angeles to Frankfurt in just 65 hours. Fly to the Summer Olympics in Berlin!
“Herbert Morrison’s famous radio broadcast of the Hindenburg disaster — Oh the Humanity! — would never have happened without American Airlines: the airline had invited Morrison to cover Hindenburg’s first American landing of 1937 to help promote their connecting service with the zeppelin.”
You just can’t buy advertising like that.