Airline record
West African Airways Corporation (WAAC)
A structured Nigeria airline record in the African Airlines Atlas.
Public text here is generated from fields, not copied encyclopedia prose.
Core record
- Country
- Nigeria
- Years
- 1946 to 1958
- Ownership
- State-owned
- Government involvement
- Full
- Service scope
- Domestic, Regional
- Fleet size
- 13
- Employees
- 13,813
- Former colonial power
- Britain
- Settler classification
- Non-Settler
- Decolonization category
- Negotiated
- Source confidence
- high
Provenance
- Entry number
- 418
- Source file
- OCR Scans Guttery/Nigeria Entries.pdf
- Book page
- 148
- Confidence
- high
- Review flags
- None recorded
Destinations
Documented destination records
The dataset can contain duplicate destination rows from source extraction; this page lists unique city/scope combinations.
- LagosNigeriaDomestic
- KanoNigeriaDomestic
- JosNigeriaDomestic
- Port HarcourtNigeriaDomestic
- EnuguNigeriaDomestic
- CalabarNigeriaDomestic
- Benin CityNigeriaDomestic
- YolaNigeriaDomestic
- AccraGhanaRegional
- TakoradiGhanaRegional
- KumasiGhanaRegional
- FreetownSierra LeoneRegional
- BathurstGambiaRegional
- DakarSenegalRegional
- KhartoumSudanRegional
- NairobiKenyaRegional
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Cite this entry
West African Airways Corporation (WAAC) (Nigeria). In Ben Guttery, Encyclopedia of African Airlines (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998), p. 148. Via African Airlines Atlas / From Colonies to Carriers dataset, ed. Reese Hollister.