It was a boom time for the aircraft industry and for airlines as well. Although a small enterprise without the massive financial resources of companies such as BOAC, Albion was not only making a consistent profit, but those profits were soaring as more people than ever before needed to travel from nation to nation and air travel was the fastest and most convenient method of doing so.

The six "Daks", each named after a wife of Henry VIII, flew regular routes to the major European cities and all went well until December 1948 when disaster struck. Two of Albion’s Dakotas were chartered by the British Government to carry vital supplies into a Berlin that was effectively under siege by the Russians. The first aircraft, G-ANNE "Anne Bolyn" crashed on a foggy night approach to Berlin Templehof Airport. The second aircraft, G-KATE "Catherine Parr" was lost a mere five days after the first under similar circumstances. The crews of each aircraft, all volunteers, were lost.

The two aircraft were replaced but never named.

By 1954 the faithful old Dakotas were beginning to feel the strain of the thousands of miles that they had flown, not only in Albion colours, but wearing the "uniform" of the RAF during the War. Ten Douglas DC-4 aircraft were brought in and the "Daks" were phased out by the end of that year. Although not as well known and remarkable a type as the famous Dakota, the DC-4 did sterling service, not only for Albion Airways, but for many large, medium and small airlines throughout the globe.

For a time, Albion extended its operations down into Africa, adopting the old Imperial Airways routes down the east coast as far as Mombasa, but the DC4 was still rather slower than the more modern and larger aircraft being brought into service by the big carriers. In order to compete, the firm sold off the whole DC-4 fleet and purchased four Bristol Britannia aeroplanes, known as the "Whispering Giants" due to their remarkably quiet turboprop engines and with a further purchase of two of the larger 310 versions, the company extended its routes into India and Australia in one direction and New York in the other.

However, success was to be short-lived with the introduction of the Boeing 707 jet aircraft into the fleets of the big national companies. The innovation of jet travel spelled the doom of many of the smaller airlines and Albion Airways was no exception. Passenger numbers dropped as the big firms provided unparalleled comfort as well as speed. The smaller airlines could not afford the huge capital cost of the new super airliners.

Albion did its best to cope with misfortune, reducing airfares and cutting back on routes. But they were in trouble and they knew it. After years of barely making a sufficient profit to pay the crews and maintain the aircraft, the then Managing Director, Sir Charles Lytton (also known as "The Phantom) hit upon the idea that if passengers needed to be moved about the globe rapidly, then why not goods and cargo? In a leap of faith and hope (mainly hope) Albion closed down its operations as a small passenger airline and re-launched as a company dealing purely in air freighting services. They scraped enough cash together, Sir Charles putting up his family estate as the major collateral, to purchase three second-hand Comet 4C jet airliners and then let it be known that Albion would fly "Any Order, Anywhere, Anytime" (within the law, of course).

For just over a month nothing happened and it appeared that the fortunes of all those at Albion were about to be washed away. Then a request came through from the British Government at the time asking if Albion could accept a contract to fly military stores and equipment to Brunei. British troops were actively engaged in assisting the Sultan of Brunei in resisting the pro-Communist insurgents from Indonesia. This contract literally saved Albion’s bacon at the eleventh hour. The crews, technical staff and management set about fulfilling the contract with such determination that soon another MoD contract was in place. This involved flying out supplies to some of the further flung outposts of the last remains of the old Empire, such as Salalah, Masirah, Gan in the Indian Ocean and Hong Kong. Albion pilots very quickly established a reputation for being able to fly almost their aircraft into any airfield with a runway that was "almost" long enough to take the Comet and on a number of unrecorded occasions, into and out of locations of which it was said they couldn’t! It was not long before Albion’s increasing reputation led other governments, friendly and allied to British interests, to contract Albion Air Cargo.

The Comets were retired at the end of their useful life and Albion bought in a variety of aircraft to suit their needs and the needs of their customers. In 1989 the Albion technicians designed and constructed a modular passenger-seat system that could be fitted into and removed from even the largest Albion aircraft in just over an hour. This put Albion back on the map as a people carrier as well as a cargo haulier.

Albion aircraft and crews continued to fly daily into some of the most difficult and dangerous places of the world, carrying out contracts for private firms and for governments alike. Some of the contracts are highly sensitive, and it has even been rumoured that it was Albion-owned Hercules aircraft, crewed by Albion pilots, that flew the Israeli Special Forces into Entebbe and rescued the hostages, although the firm has consistently denied it.