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%.
Skywest reports February 2010 passenger stats
Western Australia-based Skywest Airlines has announced its network operating statistics for the month of February 2010.
Skywest’s regular passenger transport (RPT) traffic, measured by revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs), increased by 30.32% to 18,175,000 from February 2009’s 13,946,000. Capacity, in available seat kilometres (ASKs) increased by 30.12% over the same period of the previous year to 36,786,000 from 28,271,000.
RPT passengers carried increased by 14.31% to a rounded figure of 25,000 compared with 22,000 (rounded) last February. The load factor rose slightly – by 0.08% – to 49.41% from 49.33% in February 2009.
RPT passenger data excludes charter passengers.
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