The high-flying '50s and '60s were all about flying high, as international air travel expanded to the masses for the first time. With the boom came some of the best, most creative advertising campaigns ever, as big spending airlines spared no cost to attract flyers, and Lebanon's Middle East Airlines campaign by French painter Jacques Auriac was one of the finest.

Check out these vintage posters from the 1960s:

1. Baghdad

2. Austria

3. Cairo

4. "Your Party at 850 km an hour"

5. Italy

6. Damascus

7. Kuwait

8. Bombay

9. London

10. Lebanon