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%.
Pinnacle Airlines? February performance data released
Pinnacle Airlines Corporation has announced capacity and operational results for its Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. subsidiary for February 2010.
Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) totalled 302,172,000, a drop of 7.4% compared with February 2009’s 326,450,000. Available seat miles (ASMs) were also down, by 9.3% to 444,906,000 from 490,472,000.
The load factor therefore rose to 67.9%, 1.3 percentage points above last February’s 66.6%. The number of passengers carried fell by 3.4% to 696,537 from 720,865 in February 2009.
Block hours flown were 32,949 compared with 33,666 in the same period last year, a decrease of 2.1%. The fleet for the month showed two more CRJ200s (total 126) and one fewer CRJ900 (total 16) In February 2010 compared with the previous February.
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