Airline Finance News - Latin America / Caribbean.Jun 25, 2007 Copa Airlines Copa Airlines flew 373.1 million RPMs in May, up 20.6% from the year-ago month. Capacity rose 18.3% to 495.1 million ASMs, lifting load factor 1.4 points to 75.4%. Jun 19, 2007 LAN Airlines LAN Airlines S.A. NYSE: LFL (formerly Lan Chile) is an airline based in Santiago, Chile. It is the principal Chilean airline and one of the largest in South America, with flights to Latin America, Canada, United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Oceania, and Europe. LAN Airlines flew 1.73 billion RPKs in May, up 29.9% from the year-ago month. Capacity lifted 24.1% to 2.51 billion ASKs and load factor rose 3 points to 68.7%. Jun 18, 2007 TAM TAM flew 1.83 billion domestic RPKs in May, up 23.8% from the year-ago month. Capacity climbed 30.9% to 2.64 billion ASKs and load factor fell 4 points to 69.4%. International RPKs were up 102.1% to 931 million against a 117.7% rise in ASKs to 1.36 billion that dropped load factor 5.3 points to 68.6%. Jun 18, 2007 TAP Portugal TAP Portugal (former known as Transportes Aéreos Portugueses - Portuguese Air Transportations) is the national airline of Portugal, based in Lisbon and a member of the Star Alliance. , PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. Portugalia Airlines TAP Portugal's Pinto pinto Spotted horse, also called paint, piebald, skewbald, and other terms to describe variations in colour and markings. The American Indian ponies of the western U.S. were often pintos. Most pure-breed associations refuse to register horses with pinto colouring. also said the acquisition of PGA Portugalia Airlines officially was completed last Friday. "Finally," he laughed. "It has taken a very long time." Portugalia Director-Operations and Maintenance Luis Lapa was elevated to CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the regional carrier. The integration's first phase will see a coordination of the two route networks. PGA's name and brand will continue, Pinto said. Jun 19, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. |
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