I think everyone on this forum is a collector of some type. Although I haven't met a mini bottle collector who was also a frequent flyer, it was flying that started my collection back in the early 60's and it grew to over 23,000 bottles a few years ago before I started selling it off. It's no surprise that one of my subspecialties was bottles with an airline label on them (a few examples below, including one from McGregor Airlines, about which I have never found any information; the tax stamp is one used before 1945 -- do any of you recognize the name?).

At one time I had 100 different airlines represented (I have flown 98 different ones, but the two lists are not congruent). And my other favorite collection was OAGs, which I sold off a few years back; my odds-on favorite was a 1938 International OAG; I'm sure jlemon's collection has many more unique timetables and Seat 2A's massive airline postcard collection is another example of our collecting mania. BTW, WHBM, a true mini collector only goes for sealed bottles -- once I gave my wife an extra Brazilian Caiparinha to sample, but otherwise none were opened.