Why Britain favored carriers over naval airships

Why was Rear Admiral Reginald Henderson not keen on developing a British flying aircraft carrier?

Britain's likely operating areas placed a fragile airship too close to hostile aviation, including cruiser floatplanes, while conventional carriers suited those threats better.

The American Pacific reconnaissance problem differed from Britain's position beside Europe. Sending a rigid airship through the Mediterranean or close to hostile coasts would expose it to hostile aviation, including cruiser floatplanes. Atlantic patrol offered a more plausible role, but Germany's navy remained constrained in 1933 and the later submarine threat was not yet visible at its wartime scale. Henderson's preference for conventional carriers therefore fit the threats visible at the time rather than reflecting a general failure to understand naval aviation.