Lesotho Airways

Lesotho Airways was the national airline of Lesotho.

It was founded in 1979 under this name, renamed Air Lesotho in the early 1980s, changed its name since 1984, but again as Lesotho Airways.

The airline belonged entirely to the state before it due to safety problems ceased in 1996, the international connections. She had until then the sole test flight rights to Lesotho and led daily flights from Maseru to Johannesburg in South Africa.

1997, the company was liquidated.

Former objectives

Prior to liquidation Lesotho Airways flew to national and regional objectives. Within Lesotho almost exclusively airfields from Maseru from fly into those hard to reach mountainous regions of the country, about Mokhotlong and Qacha 's Nek, but also smaller places. In addition to South Africa flights also were conducted to Botswana and Swaziland. With the Boeing 707- 326C in the late 1980s were offered flights to the Seychelles, which were used mainly by South Africans. Direct connections from South Africa to the Seychelles were because of the international boycott against the apartheid government of South Africa at that time not possible.

Former fleet

• 5 De Havilland Canada DHC -6
• 2 Beechcraft 1900
• 1 Fairchild Hiller FH -227 -
• 1 Boeing 707- 326C