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Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) Offers Complimentary Rapid Rewards®
Jun 29, 2012. — Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) is dedicated to Denver’s frequent flyers and has launched a promotion to help Frontier Airlines EarlyReturns Ascent and Summit members find their new airline of choice! Through Aug. 31, 2012, Southwest Airlines and its subsidiary, AirTran Airways, are offering Colorado EarlyReturns Ascent and Summit members complimentary Rapid [...]
The Alstom-Bombardier (EPA:ALO) consortium will supply 70 duplex trainsets
29 June 2012. — The RATP announced that they will place an order with the Alstom-Bombardier consortium for 70 additional duplex trainsets, known as MI09s. The total amount of the contract is €1 billion , including around €700 million for Alstom, and will be booked in the second quarter of the Fiscal Year 2012/13. Two [...]
NASTO members cheer rail upgrades
The members of the Northeast Association of State Transportation Officials are gathering in Baltimore this week, and it’s difficult to imagine a more appropriate setting for US Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari. After all, Deputy Secretary Porcari came to DOT after serving as Secretary of Transportation for the State of Maryland under two different [...]
Seaway welcomes Advisory Board members
The 2012 navigation season on the St. Lawrence Seaway is less than three months old, but already our binational waterway is flexing its muscles with another increase in shipping volume. And to help the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation manage this growth, as well as the Seaway’s valuable assets, we are pleased to welcome two [...]
April air travel report shows promising trend
Just in time for the busy summer travel season, there’s good news today for airline passengers: On-time performance is up, and baggage mishandling is down. The nation’s largest airlines reported an on-time arrival rate of 86.3 percent in April. That’s a 10.8 percentage point improvement from the same month last year and a 4.1 percentage [...]
Airline On-Time Performance Improves in April
In addition, the reporting airlines compiled a mishandled baggage rate of 2.63 reports per 1,000 passengers, the lowest rate for any month since carriers first reported this data in September 1987. April’s mishandled baggage rate was down from both April 2011’s rate of 3.30 and March 2012’s of 3.09. Airlines also reported no tarmac delays [...]
Britain has slipped back into recession, factory production fell by 0.7% in April
The wider index for industrial output, including manufacturing, mining and quarrying, energy production, and water and waste management, remained unchanged between March and April, said ONS. The biggest decreases were recorded in the food, drink and pharmaceuticals, while the biggest gains were registered the transport equipment production, such as car production. Britain, the 7th largest [...]
Baltic Dry Index Set to Rally DRYS, TRTH, SSW
Seaspan Corporation (NYSE:SSW), DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ:DRYS), Trai Thien USA Inc (PINK:TRTH) Global seaborne commodity movement is expected to improve as a result of China cutting borrowing costs for the first time since 2008, China also loosened controls on banks’ lending and deposit rates, stepping up efforts to combat a deepening slowdown as Europe’s debt crisis [...]
Qantas (ASX:QAN), (PINK:QUBSF) in Trouble
Qantas said Tuesday that it expected to report an underlying profit before tax in the range of AU$50-M (US$48.73-M) to AU$100-M (US$97.46-M) for the financial year ending 30 June 2012. The airline posted an underlying profit before tax of AU$552-M (US$537.97-M) in the previous financial year. Shares in Qantas have fallen to an all-time low [...]
Vietnam Hot List VNM, TRTH, VCVOF
A strong account surplus and the complimentary effect by the better performing members in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the rest of the bloc could cushion the impact of the Eurozone economic crisis, said an economist. Malaysia’s Maybank regional head of research and economics, PK Basu told Xinhua in an interview recently [...]
Trade Alert: Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (NYSE:CP)
Trade Alert: Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (NYSE:CP) Profile: Canadian Pacific Railway Limited operates as a transcontinental railway providing freight transportation services, logistics solutions, and supply chain expertise in Canada and the United States. It transports bulk commodities, including grain, coal, sulphur, and fertilizers; merchandise freight; finished vehicles and automotive parts; forest products, which include wood [...]
Aviation News: Citilink Indonesia
Indonesia’s Citilink to buy 11 planes this year Citilink, the low-cast subsidiary of Indonesia’s leading carrier PT Garuda Indonesia, will add 11 planes this year, President Director of Garuda Emirsyah Satar said Wednesday. “Eleven new planes will arrive this year to support our business,” the president director said at the Citikon building. “In Y 2013, [...]
Real Estate: HCM Global Hotel Outlook 2012
HCM Heffernan Capital Management in conjunction with Knightsbridge Law Co Ltd www.knightsbridgelaw.com Buy, Sell, Fund, and Manage Hotels with a focus on the Emerging Markets of Asia, other subsidiaries XEDV and Kris Newswireprovides Marketing Partner Service for Real Estate and Hotels . This report sets out the developing trends in Hotel Real Estate and [...]
Gas Prices USA: 2012 Most and Least Efficient Vehicles
Rising fuel costs are threatening to derail Obama’s hopes of winning re-election in November, and Republicans have honed in on his decision to block TransCanada Corp’s Canada-to-Texas pipeline as a sign that his energy priorities were hurting America. U.S. gasoline prices have jumped nearly 30 cents in the past month, pushing the national average to [...]
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China Economy in for a Shock
Thursday’s PMI revived investor worries about whether China can sustain an economic revival this year, after annual growth slumped to a 13-year trough in 2012. China’s factory output and investment performance for April released earlier …
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All of the numbers on a Roulette Wheel add up to 666, hence, that is why roulette is referred to as “The Devil’s Game.”
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