Pentagon’s FY26 defence budget proposal is $130 billion more than US Congress plans to provide
The House Committee on Appropriations approved a FY2026 bill reducing investments in main defence programmes.
US Airways reports December and full 2009 traffic for Express subsidiaries
US Airways has reported December 2009 and full calendar year 2009 traffic figures for its two wholly-owned subsidiaries which operate under the US Airways Express brand – Piedmont Airlines and PSA Airlines.
In December, the two carriers generated 160,474,000 revenue passenger miles (RPMs), a drop of 2.3% compared with December 2008’s 164,208,000. Available seat miles (ASMs) totalled 241,318,000, compared with 256,241,000 the previous year, a 5.8% decrease.
The load factor for the month went up 2.4 percentage points to 66.5% from 64.1%, with the carriers transporting 600,537 passengers in December, a 0.3% increase on December 2008’s 602,495
For the whole of 2009, RPMs for the pair reached 2,127,324,000, a 2.0% decrease on 2008’s figure of 2,170,025,000. ASMs were down 3.6% to 3,126,779,000 from 3,244,253,000 for the respective periods.
The annual load factor thus rose by 1.1 pp to 68.0% from 66.9% in 2008. The two airlines carried 7,905,484 passengers in 2009, a 0.8% increase over 2008’s total of 7,839,737.
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