Pentagon’s FY26 defence budget proposal is $130 billion more than US Congress plans to provide
The House Committee on Appropriations approved a FY2026 bill reducing investments in main defence programmes.
American Eagle releases February traffic data
American Eagle Airlines has reported traffic figures for February 2010 covering its own operations and those of its wholly-owned subsidiary Executive Airlines.
Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) for Eagle totalled 489,661,000, a 1.0% rise over last February’s 485,017,000. Available seat miles (ASMs) though were cut by 1.4% to 718,429,000 from 728,476,000, which resulted in a load factor increase of 1.6 percentage points (pp) to 68.2% from 66.6% in February 2009. The airline carried 1,093,442 passengers during the month, a 1.3% increase compared with the 1,078,915 carried in the same period last year.
Executive Airlines recorded 37,621,000 RPMs in February, compared with 37,114,000 in February last year, a 1.4% increase. ASMs showed only a minor drop to 72,031,000 from 72,044,000. This created a load factor of 52.2%, up 0.7 pp on last February’s 51.5%. Executive carried 200,455 passengers in February, 7.6% more than the February 2009 figure of 186,311.
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