London - Cape Town

Imperial Airways Africa Service

On 28 February 1931 a weekly service began between London and Mwanza on Lake Victoria in Tanganyika as part of the proposed route to Cape Town.
On 9 December 1931 the Imperial Airways’ service for Central Africa was extended experimentally to Cape Town for the carriage of Christmas mail.
The aircraft used on the last sector, DH66 G-AARY City of Karachi arrived in Cape Town on 21 December 1931. On 20 January

1932 a mail-only route to London to Cape Town was opened. On 27 April this route was opened to passengers and took 10 days.
In early 1933 Atalantas replaced DH66s on the Kisumu to Cape Town sector of the London to Cape Town route.

Source: Wikipedia

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