Global Ordnance and Sparkz disclose plans for 500,000 US-made UAV batteries a year
The companies have outlined plans for US$25 million manufacturing lines and initial deliveries in 2027 as Washington tightens restrictions on Chinese UAV components.
Vueling reports passengers figures for 2009
Vueling has announced that it carried 8.2 million passengers during 2009, with an average seat-load factor of 73.7%, a 3.4 percentage point (pp) increase over 2008’s figure.
In December 2009, the airline – whose figures are affected by its merger with clickair in July 2009 – generated 758,00 revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs), up by 89.9% on December 2008’s 399,000. Available seat kilometres (ASKs) were up 96.0% at 1,102,000 from 562,000 in the same month a year earlier.
This created a 2.2 percentage point fall in load factor to 68.8% in December 2009 from 71.0% in December 2008. Total passengers carried during the month was 817,107, a 95.9% increase on December 2008’s 417,013.
For the whole of 2009, the carrier recorded 7,500,000 RPKs, 34.3% up on 2008’s 5,583,000, while ASKs increased by 28.1% to 10,181,000 from 7,945,000 in 2008.
As stated, the resultant load factor for 2009 was 73.7%, 3.4 pp up on 2008’s figure of 70.3% with the airline carrying 8,198,656 compared to 5,886,160 in 2008, up 39.3%.
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