Transkei but did not elaborate on where those resources would originate. During its last days in 1994, the "Transkei Police" had 4,993 police officers, operating from 61 police stations throughout the territory. With the dissolution of Transkei in 1994, the "TDF" and the "Transkei Police" were incorporated into the South African National Defence Force and the South African Police Service, respectively. Transkei Transkei (, meaning "the area beyond [the river] Kei"), officially the Republic of Transkei (), was an unrecognised state in the southeastern region of South Africa from 1976 to 1994. It was a Bantustan—an area set aside for members
MetroJet (American airline) by the time the last MetroJet 737 was retired in December. MetroJet (American airline) MetroJet was a no-frills airline brand operated as a wholly owned division of US Airways from 1998 until 2001. After the conclusion of painstaking labor negotiations in 1997, US Airways sought to head off burgeoning competition from low-cost carriers in its strongest region, the U.S. Northeast. Competitor Southwest Airlines was encroaching from its base in the West as were Delta Express and AirTran Airways from the South. Like them it would offer a single class of service, operate a single type of aircraft, which consisted of