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 word rorqual means tube whale or furrowed whale, referring to the pleats on the lower jaws of rorquals. All rorquals have baleen, a dorsal fin and throat grooves. Other members of this family include the humpback whale, fin whale, and minke whale. The blue whale's scientific name is Balaenoptera musculus. Its generic name, Balaenoptera, means winged whale, which refers to the blue whale's dorsal fin. The blue whale's specific name, musculus, means little mouse. The blue whale is currently the largest extant animal. Blue whales may exceed 100ft in length and 100 tons in weight. Female blue whales are usually larger than males of the same age.