Generally speaking you have very expensive assets (the airplanes), rising fuel prices (Which amount to about 30% of operational costs of a flight) and fierce competition by LCC which lower ticket prices. All in all there's little one can do to make good money out of operating an airline.
The smallest whale. The Dwarf Sperm Whale (Kogia sima) is considered to be the smallest whale. It is not the smallest cetacean, but it is the smallest from those cetaceans considered whales. It should not be confused with the Pygmy Sperm Whale, also a small whale and member of the sperm whale family. The Dwarf Sperm Whale measure up to 2.5 meters long (8 feet) in length and they can weigh up to 550 lb.
The blue whale is the largest mammal, possibly the largest animal, to ever inhabit the earth. Its body is long, somewhat tapered, and streamlined, with the head making up less than one-fourth of its total body length.LUE WHALE Balaenoptera musculus. Meaning of scientific name: mouse-like finned whale (many think the name was meant as a joke, since blue whales are so large). On land an animal the size of a blue whale would be crushed by its own weight without the support of large heavy bones.