New Zealand boosts defence spend to US$6.6 billion and vows increased closeness with Australia
This budget will be spent over the next four years and nearly doubles the country’s defence spending as part of GDP to 2%.
Combined January traffic announced for SkyWest and ASA
SkyWest, Inc. has released the combined traffic figures for its two airline subsidiaries, SkyWest Airlines and Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) during January 2010.
The two airlines created a 9.9% increase in revenue passenger miles (RPMs) for January, the figure rising to 1,369,645,763 from 1,245,863,173 in January 2009. Available seat miles (ASMs) increased by 8.4% to 1,868,994,024 compared with the 1,723,838,782 for the same period last year.
The load factor for January 2010 was up by 1.0 percentage point to 73.3% compared to 72.3% for the same period last year. Passenger boardings for January totalled 2,737,931, a 12.0% increase from January 2009’s 2,444,573.
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