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%.
Continued passenger growth at airBaltic in February
airBaltic reports that it carried 186,512 passengers in February 2010, an increase of 27% compared with the same month in 2009, when it transported 147,425 passengers.
At its home base in Riga, airBaltics’s passenger numbers increased by 33% in February compared to the same period last year.
During the first two months of 2010, a total of 385,597 passengers were carried by the airline, up 29% on the first two months of 2009, when the total number of passengers was 324,622.
The airline’s load factor in February 2010 was 61%, down 1 percentage point from February 2009.
Despite bad weather conditions and transport-related strikes across Europe in February, airBaltic‘s 15-minute flight punctuality level was 86.6%.
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