Swazi Airways to South Africa and Zimbabwe were to be operated initially. Swazi Airways was a subsidiary of the Royal Swazi National Airways Corporation, which is fully owned by the Swaziland Government. The acting CEO of the airline was Guillermo Barrios, a Venezuelan-Canadian. Swazi Airways planned to operate flights from its Manzini hub to Durban, Cape Town, and Harare. Swazi Airways obtained a single Boeing 737-300 in February 2016, but it planned to launch operations with 50-seater regional aircraft. Swazi Airways Swazi Airways was an upcoming Swazi airline based at King Mswati III International Airport in Manzini. It is the successor to
MetroJet (American airline) 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 the Boeing 737-200, and fly a limited network, based at the