Austrian Postal Cancel Question 1937

I have this postcard which has three different cancels The card was request to be sent via S.S. Aquatania on October 6. It has a Paris postmark of the same date. Did the S.S. Aquatania make it to Paris the same day? Why the use of airmail stamps but send by sea? The hospital was owned and run by Dr. Furth (a Jew). Perhaps she didn't think it would be sent because of the antisemitism of the time? Anyone have an idea or know?
Bill





Here is an interesting story about Dr. Furth and some long lost relatives. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/buried-...-29-06-2004/

The sender noted "Avion Paris" under the recipient's address, indicating she wanted the card sent by air mail to Paris. The card would then be sent over land to the port city. Generally, the amount paid for the stamps is the important thing, whether or not they have an air mail inscription. In this case, the air mail stamps reinforced the sender's desire (and payment for) air mail delivery on the first leg of the trip.

I don't think so. I think the sender requested the SS Aquitania which departed Vienna October 6 and the airmail from Paris to New York.
No way that ship went to Vienna. Still why the use of three different postmarks?

If this "SS Aquitania" was RMS Aquitania, sister ship of Lusitania, I seriously doubt she departed from Vienna.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Aquitania

Robert

... Austria being landlocked. Presumably airmail to Paris, thence to Calais, Le Havre etc.