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.
Great Lakes announces February 2010 traffic
Great Lakes Aviation has reported its preliminary passenger traffic results for February 2010.
Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) showed a slight increase, by 0.4%, at 9,672,000 compared with 9,634,000 in February 2009. Available seat miles (ASMs) totalled 29,100,000, a 5.5% decrease from last February’s 30,785,000.
This led to a 2.0 percentage point increase in the load factor with February’s figure standing at 33.24% compared with 31.29% in the same peiod last year. The total number of passengers carried dropped to 33,255 from 35,042 for the respective periods, a 5.1% decrease.
The revenue per ASM (RASM), however, was up 4.3% at 29.76¢ from 28.54¢ last February.
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