Background
The establishment of Imperial Airways occurred in the context of British hopes of prolonging and modernizing their Empire that had been based around ocean shipping. The hope was that the new technology of aviation would facilitate overseas settlement by making travel to and from the colonies quicker, and that flight would also speed up colonial government and trade. The launch of the airline followed a burst of air route survey in the British Empire after the First World War, and after some experimental (and sometimes dangerous) long-distance flying to the margins of Empire.
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