Resilience, adaptiveness and collaboration vital for success in space (Studio)
Speakers at the Defence In Space Conference (DISC) 2025 highlighted the critical and evolving role of space in national security, defence and the global economy.
Pinnacle Airlines? February performance data released
Pinnacle Airlines Corporation has announced capacity and operational results for its Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. subsidiary for February 2010.
Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) totalled 302,172,000, a drop of 7.4% compared with February 2009’s 326,450,000. Available seat miles (ASMs) were also down, by 9.3% to 444,906,000 from 490,472,000.
The load factor therefore rose to 67.9%, 1.3 percentage points above last February’s 66.6%. The number of passengers carried fell by 3.4% to 696,537 from 720,865 in February 2009.
Block hours flown were 32,949 compared with 33,666 in the same period last year, a decrease of 2.1%. The fleet for the month showed two more CRJ200s (total 126) and one fewer CRJ900 (total 16) In February 2010 compared with the previous February.
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