Malaysia’s defence budget sets out major procurement goals for 2026
The country has allocated RM21.70 billion for defence spending next year, with some major procurements set to be initiated across the country’s army, navy and air force.
easyJet continues passenger growth in February
easyJet has reported its passenger and load factors figures for February 2010 and the rolling 12-month to the end of February.
During the month the airline carried 3,390,523 passengers, 12.3% more than the 3,018,910 carried last February. The load factor, however, dropped by 1,7 percentage points to 85.3% from 87.0% in the same month last year.
For the rolling 12 month period ending 28 February 2010, easyJet carried 46,752,084 passengers, an increase of 5.2% over the 44,439,653 carried in the 12 month period to the end of February 2009. The load factors for the respective periods were 86.1% and 85.1%, thus showing a 1.0 pp rise in the most recent period.
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