the company was aimed at providing the british west africa with air transport facilities, to connecting it with dakar and khartoum in order to provide passengers with a gateway to the americas and the middle east, respectively, and to operating feeder flights that connected with the europe-bound boac hermes services at accra, lagos and kano. the close ties with boac were evidenced by the fact that waac actually acted as an agent for the british state carrier in nigeria and the gold coast.