How UAE defence giant EDGE Group plans to double its exports
The UAE defence conglomerate has put an aggressive strategy in place to increase its share of exports while navigating the growing gap between East and West.
JetBlue January traffic stats released
JetBlue Airways has reported its preliminary traffic results for January 2010.
Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in January totalled 2,106,871,000, a 9.1% increase on last January’s figure of 1,930,790,000. Available seat miles (ASMs) rose by 8.9% to 2,843,221,000 from 2,609,819,000, creating a load factor of 74.1%, an increase of 0.1 percentage points from January 2009.
The airline had a 5.9 % increase in revenue passengers carried at 1,766,027 compared with 1,667,702 carried in the same month last year.
JetBlue's completion factor was 98.5% and its on-time performance was 74.6%. The company reported that its preliminary passenger revenue per available seat mile for the month of January decreased by 2% year-over-year.
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