US Army partners with Global Military Products to surge munitions production
Global Military Products was selected by the US Army to operate the Quad Cities Cartridge Case Facility and ramp up the production of various calibre shell cases.
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.
Global Military Products was selected by the US Army to operate the Quad Cities Cartridge Case Facility and ramp up the production of various calibre shell cases.
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