New opportunities for defence firms as EU steps up support for Ukraine
The European Commission is looking for startups and other innovators to address challenges across the land, air and sea domains.
GOL?s December 2009 and full-year traffic figures released
GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes has announced its preliminary traffic figures for December 2009 and for the last complete calendar year.
Revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) for the month were up 34.8% to 2,827,000,000 from 2,097,300,000 in December 2008. Available seat kilometres (ASKs) also increased, by 14.3% to 3,702,900,000 from 3,240,800,000 for the respective months. The resulting load factor was 76.3%, an 11.7 percentage point increase over December 2008’s figure of 64.7%.
For the whole of 2009, RPKs totalled 26,095,600,000, a 3.1% increase on 2008’s figure of 25,308,100,000. ASKs though were cut by 2.7% to 39,988,000,000 from 41,106,900,000 in 2008. These figures produced a load factor of 65.3% for 2009, 3.7 pp up on 2008’s 61.6%.
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