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Southwest Airlines Reports Higher Traffic in November Zacks.com submits: Last week Southwest Airlines (LUV) reported that its November traffic has jumped 11.7% over the same month last year. Load factor, or the percentage of available seats filled with passengers, in September rose to 76.5% from 63.2% in the prior-year period. Southwest said paying customers flew 5.88 billion miles last month, up from 5.26 billion in November 2008. Available seat miles, or capacity, fell 7.7% to 7.7 billion from 8.3 billion in the year-ago period. The airline plans to reduce 2009 available seat miles in the 5-6% range versus last year.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
British Airways Strike Begins British Airways canceled 1,100 flights on Saturday as some cabin crews started a three-day strike in protest over working conditions and pay. nytimes.com |
CHINDIA Auto Sales Top U.S. Zacks.com submits: China and India -- CHINDIA, in popular lingo -- are now automobile market leaders in passenger cars by posting a staggering 34% increase to 1.11 million vehicles and 39.5% to 143,976 vehicles, respectively, during April. In contrast, passenger car sales in the U.S. during the month rose 20%. In China, government incentives such as sales tax and interest rate cuts as well as subsidies to trade in older cars were the principal factors behind the growth in car sales. In order to boost public consumption, the government is following a $600 billion economic stimulus plan.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
An Update on Shipping Trends Calafia Beach Pundit submits: (Click to enlarge)These are the dog days of summer, with most of the financial types are on vacation and the Labor Day weekend less than two weeks away. The beach here is beautiful but relatively uncrowded, perhaps due to the water temperature being an unusually cold 60-61º. Since there's not much going on, I thought I would post updated charts on shipping costs.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |