How Airlines Expanded Across the World in the 1920s and 1930s

Commercial aviation expanded rapidly between the 1920s and 1930s as airlines opened long-distance routes linking Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and South America. British services reached Cairo, Karachi, Australia, India, Singapore, Brisbane and Hong Kong. France developed its early Morocco airmail route into Aéropostale before its nationalisation and merger into Air France. Germany also built international services through Lufthansa and its famous airships, Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg. Meanwhile, Aeroflot grew into the world’s largest airline by the late 1930s and introduced sustained scheduled jet services in 1956.

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