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Aviation, apartheid and sanctions: Air transport to and from South Africa, 1945–1989

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The geography of air transport to and from South Africa has been shaped powerfully by the world map of anti-apartheid, sanctions-keeping nations which close their airspace to the Republic's state-owned airline. Re-routering, involving notably the offshore west-African link to Europe, revocation of foreign landing rights and a shrinking airline network have resulted. The economic dependence of the Republic's southern African neighbours on their political adversary has dissuaded them from joining an anti-apartheid air blockade. Likewise, the penalties to black African states of denying overfying, landing and traffic rights to west-European airlines plying the South Africa route have diminished the force of the air embargo.

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  1. Department of Geography, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Pirie, G.H. Aviation, apartheid and sanctions: Air transport to and from South Africa, 1945–1989. GeoJournal 22, 231–240 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00192821

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