Henry Bruce Obermiller replaced Holloway as a general manager in . In the same year, four more Skytrains joined the fleet. New scheduled services to Sheikh Othman and Nairobi were launched in and , respectively. In 1947, Waldon Gene Golien became the general manager, and the company started operating charter flights to Jeddah during the Hajj season. That year in , three more Douglas C-47s were acquired to operate new international routes. A service to Mukalla was inaugurated in . In , Port Sudan was added to the route network (it was previously a technical stop en route to Cairo), Lydda was incorporated as a scheduled destination in and charter flights to Bombay were launched in . Services to Lydda and Mukalla were discontinued in and , respectively. In , the route to Bombay became a scheduled route, with EAL flying as far as Aden, and BOAC operating the Aden–Bombay sector. The route also included stops at Mesirah Island in Oman and Karachi. For a brief period until , Mesirah Island was used as a refuelling stop; since then, services to French Somaliland and Aden started on a twice-weekly basis. EAL was allowed to fly to Aden using Sheik 'Othman Airport, located away from the city, whereas BOAC used the Khormaksar Airport facilities, just from the city. Aden was under British rule at the time as was Sudan, and the British Empire denied EAL landing rights at Khartoum, forcing the airline to move the refuelling stop on the Aden route to Port Sudan. The carrier recorded a £40,000 profit for 1949.