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 (scientifically referred to as balaenoptera musculus) is a large marine mammal that is part of the baleen whale (mysticeti) suborder and is the largest animal alive growing to lengths of up to 100 ft.long and weighing as much as 150 tons or more.n fact a blue whales calls can be heard several miles away and far below the oceans surface. Despite being the largest animal on earth the blue whales primary diet consists of krill, a small aquatic life form that resembles tiny shrimp. Due to their large size these marine mammals are rarely ever attacked.