Article ID: CBB033433895

Flying to the Emirates: The end of British Overseas Airways Corporation’s service to Dubai and Sharjah in 1947 (December 2018)

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During the 1930s Dubai and Sharjah in the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates) were regular stops on Imperial Airways’ England – India route. But in early 1947 the successor British airline British Overseas Airways Corporation discontinued service to them. The local market for air travel connecting the Gulf shaikhdoms, which were de facto British protectorates, was undermined just as the expanding oil industry most needed reliable scheduled flights. For fear of competition following its ratification of the Chicago Convention, Britain still restricted access to the airfields at Kuwait, Bahrain and Sharjah. For four years the Trucial States had no regular air service. Its wireless facilities led to the survival of the Sharjah airfield, shared by the Royal Air Force and International Aeradio Limited, a new British telecommunications company. Britain’s control over air services and their post-war disruption arguably contributed to delaying the socio-economic development of the Emirates that oil production would make possible.

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Authors & Contributors
Bilotkach, Volodymyr
Stadler, Christian
Mike Harvey
Diego Barría Traverso
Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo
Goffman, Laura F.
Concepts
Business history
Aviation, commercial
Transportation
Business enterprises
Airline industry
Banks and banking
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Latin America
United States
Africa
Persian Gulf
Bahrain
Institutions
London Stock Exchange
Unilever (firm)
British Airways
Bank of America
Bancomer
Banamex
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