Brief summary of air transport in Eastern Africa

Abstract

In much the same way as air transport generally was developed in other remote and isolated areas of the world, regional and local services in East Africa were organized after long-distance air routes through the area-had "been well established. - Imperial Airways flights linked London with the Union of South Africa prior to 1935 with stopping places in Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Mozambique. While this represented great savings in transport time for Europe, the service was not introduced primarily as a measure for the economic development of the regions.