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%.
JetBlue January traffic stats released
JetBlue Airways has reported its preliminary traffic results for January 2010.
Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in January totalled 2,106,871,000, a 9.1% increase on last January’s figure of 1,930,790,000. Available seat miles (ASMs) rose by 8.9% to 2,843,221,000 from 2,609,819,000, creating a load factor of 74.1%, an increase of 0.1 percentage points from January 2009.
The airline had a 5.9 % increase in revenue passengers carried at 1,766,027 compared with 1,667,702 carried in the same month last year.
JetBlue's completion factor was 98.5% and its on-time performance was 74.6%. The company reported that its preliminary passenger revenue per available seat mile for the month of January decreased by 2% year-over-year.
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