Have had another look at it and I still smell the same rat. They weren't the first jet operator nor was Icarus their first pilot. However, they would have you believe that they and only they have done it all.If you look at the ad, it subliminally suggests that they were the first 707 international operator,they were gods of safety and service , a far larger operator than they were( are) and now with the 380.... more of the same. The truth is somewhat different.
Lets face it, in 1959 how significant was a tin pot country like Australia not to mention an airline to said tin pot country with a name that people couldn't spell?
Jet setters, rich and famous, polititians to Australia? Spare me, please.
A plane or two a week across the Pacific with a couple of stops compared with the many jets that would have been crossing the Atlantic or to South America? Until Paul Hogan went to LA with a bucket of "shrimp", who cared about Australia as a destination.
It's an ad and like all advertising, it is all about creating perceived differences in essentially identical products for the prupose of making money.