Porter Airlines sees profitable 2009
Porter Airlines, a regional carrier in Canada, says that it expects to remain profitable the rest of the year and to keep expanding in 2010.
CEO Robert Deluce said that privately held Porter is not in talks to be taken over by Canada’s No. 2 carrier, WestJet Airlines. There has been speculation recently that WestJet would make such a move.
The almost three-year-old Porter says it is seeing a 60 percent to 70 percent increase in passenger numbers in Canada this year from last year. Even the depressed New York market had recovered for Porter by the start of this year, the airline says.
House of cards? Too easy! Here’s a hotel made from plastic keys (200,000 in fact)
So what can you do with those unwanted hotel key cards? If you’re Holiday Inn, then build a guest house.
Holiday Inn’s Key Card Hotel, which opened [September 17, 2009] in New York, includes a guest bedroom, bathroom and lobby, all fully equipped with life-sized furniture all made out of, yes, well, you get the point.
The 400 sq ft, two-ton construction in Manhattan , which will be in business until September 21, was built by world record-holding ‘card-stacker’ Bryan Berg.
Airbus single-aisle jet delay risks opening to China
Last Friday, Airbus announced that the successor to its A320 won’t be ready for at least 15 years. Coupled with the delay of Boeing’s Dreamliner, airlines may look to China, Canada, Japan, and Brazil to add planes to its fleet.
“They’re late doing these programs because they ran out of resources — money and people — because they screwed up their major programs,” said Nick Cunningham, an aerospace analyst at Evolution Securities in London. “That’s left the door open for new contestants to come into the bottom end of the narrow-body market.”
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