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Tickets could be booked and purchased from the travelling office of the Hamburg-America travel services (Hapag). The loading of luggage and the comprehensive and time consuming costums formalities were usually carried out on the eve of departure. A journey to Brazil cost around 1.500 Reichsmarks, a trip to the USA between 1.000 and 1.250 Reichmarks. These amounts represented approximately half of the anual wage of a mechanic on the Hindenburg. Travelling by airship was therefore a luxury reserved for more well-off people.