HAL is major beneficiary of latest Indian procurement approvals
India has approved millions of dollars in new military purchases, most of which will go to public sector companies.
April traffic reported by AirTran
AirTran Airways has reported traffic for the month of April 2009, with the airline's load factor and revenue passenger miles (RPMs) each representing new all-time company records for the month of April.
The airline recorded 1,513,088,000 RPMs in April, up 0.3% from April 2008's figure of 1,508,554,000. Available seat miles dropped by 7.9% to 1,882,040,000 from 2,042,684,000
in the same month last year.
This resulted in a record April load factor of 80.4%, an increase of 6.5 percentage points over the 73.9% achieved in April 2008. Like the RPMs, the total passengers carried also rose by 0.3% to 1,994,252 from 1,988,265.
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