HAL is major beneficiary of latest Indian procurement approvals
India has approved millions of dollars in new military purchases, most of which will go to public sector companies.
JetBlue reports December 2008 and full-year traffic
JetBlue Airways reports that its traffic (in revenue passenger miles) in December 2008 decreased by 1.8% from December 2007, on a capacity decrease (available seat miles) of 5.1%. RPMs dropped from 2,161,786,000 to 2,122,020,000, while ASMs fell from 2,814,913,000 to 2,671,710,000. This produced a load factor for December 2008 of 79.4%, an increase of 2.6 percentage points (pp) from December 2007. Revenue passengers carried rose to 1,841,761 from 1,814,093 in December 2007, a 1.5 % increase.
Over the full year RPMs went up by 1.3% from 25,737,027,000 to 26,070,799,000 and ASMs reached 32,442,332,000, a 1.7% rise over 2007's figure of 31,904,286,000. Total passengers carried numbered 21,920,442, up by 2.5% on 21,386,573 passengers in 2007. The 2008 load factor was 80.4%, a small drop of 0.3 pp from 80.7% the previous year.
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