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An American airline wins the right to weigh passengers on its Samoan route
ONE of Gulliver’s stranger flying experiences came in 2011, when he was preparing to board a domestic flight from Panama City to the beaches of Bocas del Toro. An airline employee motioned to a scale, and Gulliver dutifully placed his bag on it. “No,” she said, and in a conversation combining her broken English with his broken Spanish, communicated that, in fact, he himself was the item she wanted to weigh. The plane, it turned out, had only about six seats, and it was crucial to achieve a weight balance.
Now an American airline is in trouble for a similar practice on a, well, much larger scale.
The problem for Hawaiian Airlines began when the carrier discovered it was burning through more fuel than anticipated on its route between Honolulu and the small Pacific island territory of American Samoa, according to reporting by the Associated Press. The airline ruled out explanations like strong winds and decided to conduct a voluntary survey among its passengers on the route. The results were clear:…Continue reading
Shell vende varios activos en Canadá a Tourmaline por más de 1.000 millones de dólares
La petrolera prevé que la operación se cierre antes de finales de año. Leer
BAT propone a Reynolds la fusión para crear la mayor tabaquera cotizada
La empresa ya controla el 42% de la compañía estadounidense y la resultante plantaría cara a Altria, la antigua Philip Morris
Abengoa propondrá en la junta unificar sus acciones de tipo A y B
La empresa sevillana anuncia las condiciones para el canje de los dos tipos de títulos por los nuevos
El gigante del tabaco BAT ofrece 43.000 millones por Reynolds, el dueño de Camel
La empresa ya controla el 42% de la compañía estadounidense y la resultante plantaría cara a Altria, la antigua Philip Morris
Money has fled Ukraine for decades
IT IS an accepted fact that Ukraine suffers from a high level of «capital flight». The term refers to a process by which people pull money out of a country and buy foreign assets instead. Ukraine is highly corrupt. If you make money in Ukraine, you often want to get it out of there, lest someone else steal it from you. Ukrainian oligarchs are big fans of London property, where their capital is safe.
So we suspect there is capital flight from Ukraine, but how much? The problem is that the term «capital flight» has a variety of definitions. This means that there are no easy-to-find statistics on capital flight for most countries.
Therefore, we have tried to estimate capital flight for Ukraine. The details should not concern the casual reader, but we have used the methodology shown in
El gigante del tabaco BAT ofrece 43.000 millones por el dueño de Camel
La empresa ya controla el 42% de la compañía estadounidense y la resultante plantaría cara a Altria, la antigua Philip Morris