AirTran Airways reported traffic for the month of March 2009. The airline reported a traffic decrease of 7.2%, while capacity was down 8.4% compared to the same period last year. The load factor for the month was 80.7%, up 1.1 pts compared to March 2008.
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Ryanair reported that traffic for the month of March 2009 improved 5% compared to the same period last year and that the load factor for the month dropped 2.0 pts to 77%.
BA reported that in March 2009 passenger capacity was 0.9% above March 2008 and traffic fell by 7.3%. This resulted in a passenger load factor decrease of 6.4 points, versus last year, to 72.7%. Traffic comprised a 13.0% decrease in premium traffic and a 6.0% fall in non-premium traffic.
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Woodward Governor Company completed the acquisition of all the outstanding shares of stock of HR Textron from Textron Inc. and substantially all the UK assets and certain liabilities related to the HR Textron business of Textron Limited. Woodward previously announced the signing of a definitive purchase agreement on February 27, 2009. The purchase price of
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StandardAero and Banyan Air Service have signed a support center agreement, authorizing Banyan as a StandardAero-approved installation facility for the Cessna Caravan 208-series aircraft engine-upgrade program. This engine-upgrade program replaces the PT6A-114 (600 shp)/114A (675 shp) powerplants with the PT6A-135A (750 shp) powerplant. Providing an alternative to traditional overhaul, the new engine provides an increase
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Rolls-Royce has signed a long-term engine service agreement worth more than $350 million with Mexicana Group for the fleet of aircraft operated by its low-cost subsidiary, MexicanaClick. The TotalCare agreement covers 25 newly leased Boeing 717-200s, powered by Rolls-Royce BR715 engines. Today, more than 55% of Rolls-Royce
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American Airlines reported a March load factor of 79.2%, a decrease of 4.8 points versus the same period last year. Traffic decreased 10.9% and capacity decreased 5.6% year over year.
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US Airways Group reported March 2009 traffic results. Mainline traffic for the month was down 8.9% versus March 2008, capacity was down 6.1% versus March 2008 and the load factor for the month was 81.9% down 2.6 points versus March 2008.
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Limco-Piedmont Inc. and TAT Technologies Ltd. have entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger pursuant to which TAT (which presently owns 61.8% of Limco’s common stock) will acquire all of the publicly held shares of common stock of Limco pursuant to a stock for stock merger. Under the terms of the merger agreement,
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Alaska reported an increase in load factor to 81.6% in March 2009, compared to 80.8% in March 2008, on a 9.0% decline in capacity compared to the prior-year period. Traffic for the month increased 8.1%. Horizon reported a decrease in load factor to 69.5% in March 2009, compared to 73.8 percent in March 2008, on
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