US Army partners with Global Military Products to surge munitions production
Global Military Products was selected by the US Army to operate the Quad Cities Cartridge Case Facility and ramp up the production of various calibre shell cases.
easyJet announces passenger stats for January 2010
easyJet has announced passenger and load factor data for its services in January 2010.
Passengers carried totalled 3,142,629, a 10.7% increase on the 2,839,617 carried in January 2009. The load factors for the respective months were 79.3% and 75.7%, a 3.6 pp increase year-on-year.
During the rolling 12 month period ending January 2010, the airline carried 46,380,471 passengers, a 3.8% increase on the 44,661,510 in the 12 month period ending 31 January 2009. The load factors for the respective periods were 86.2% and 84.9%.
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