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22nd November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘northwest’

SUV Sales Run Out of Gas, Airlines Ground Jets

By Denis Campbell • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Business
The 2008 Cadillac Escalade EXT SUV weighs 7,200 pound (3.5 tons), has a 403 hp, 6.2 litre V-8 engine, gets less than 15 miles (4 miles per litre) to a gallon of petrol and the tank is 31 gallons or 119 litres. At today’s UK petrol price of £1.17 per litre it would cost £140 [...]


Delta/NW Combined $10.5 Billion Dollar Loss

By Denis Campbell • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Business
The late Senator Everett Dirksen said, “a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.” When two airlines who cannot make it alone talk about merging and faced with these kind of losses, the question that is not asked but should be is, why?