Venezuela prepares personnel and equipment for a potential second US attack
Defence Minister Gen Vladimir Padrino López has declared that the Venezuelan armed forces “will continue to employ all its available capabilities for military defence”.
Western Australia-based Skywest Airlines has announced its network operating statistics for the month of February 2010.
Skywest’s regular passenger transport (RPT) traffic, measured by revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs), increased by 30.32% to 18,175,000 from February 2009’s 13,946,000. Capacity, in available seat kilometres (ASKs) increased by 30.12% over the same period of the previous year to 36,786,000 from 28,271,000.
RPT passengers carried increased by 14.31% to a rounded figure of 25,000 compared with 22,000 (rounded) last February. The load factor rose slightly – by 0.08% – to 49.41% from 49.33% in February 2009.
RPT passenger data excludes charter passengers.
Defence Minister Gen Vladimir Padrino López has declared that the Venezuelan armed forces “will continue to employ all its available capabilities for military defence”.
The UK’s defence spending commitments remain uncertain as the government’s Defence Investment Plan, which had been due by the end of 2025, is yet to be published.
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The Canadian Department of National Defence has created new organisations to manage the procurement and integration of all-domain solutions and allocated US$258.33 million to strengthen production capacities.