Commercial Air Services began by operating Fairchild UC-78's (found in Cairo after the war) as a charter service to some of the remotest places in Africa. New South African Aviation regulations in 1948 allowed for Comair to begin its first scheduled service using a new Cessna model 195. Carrying a pilot and four passengers, the Cessna followed the daily return route from Johannesburg to Durban via Kroonstad, Odendaalsrust, Bloemfontein, Bethlehem and Ladysmith. However, a regulated service was not a commercially viable option for Comair at this time, and when Government support was rejected, it was announced that the service must end. As luck would have it, the Anglo American Corporation approached Comair to keep the service - at least to the Free State Goldfields - and agreed to subsidise the losses within reason. Thus Comair continued to operate a scheduled route, and so secured its future existence.