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Question of the Day By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times - Monday, February 15, 2021
More than 150 million people nearly half the U.S. population were under a winter weather advisory Monday, as meteorologists warned of power outages, icy roads and below-freezing temperatures.
Winter storm warnings stretched from the south-central U.S. to the Northeast, with weather emergency declarations in Alabama, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky and Texas.
The disruptive snow and ice accumulations across the south-central region were due to strong Arctic high pressure contributing to subfreezing temperatures and an active storm track dropping precipitation from coast-to-coast, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
By - Associated Press - Saturday, February 13, 2021
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi’s airports are receiving $11.6 million from the federal government to help with revenue lost due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“This funding will help airports to withstand the drop in traffic from COVID-19 and facilitate economic development as we work to recover,” Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker said in a statement Friday.
In all, the Federal Aviation Administration awarded $11,622,567 to Mississippi, with the largest grants being:
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Southwest Airlines Reports Fourth Quarter And Annual 2020 Results
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DALLAS, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) (the Company ) today reported its fourth quarter and annual 2020 financial results:
Fourth quarter net loss of $908 million, or $1.54 loss per diluted share
Excluding special items
Annual net loss of $3.1 billion, or $5.44 loss per diluted share
Excluding special items, annual net loss of $3.5 billion, or $6.22 loss per diluted share
Ended 2020 with liquidity
2 of $14.3 billion, well in excess of debt outstanding
Gary C. Kelly, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, stated, The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the world, and our heart goes out to all those affected. The airline industry was hit especially hard in 2020, and we incurred our first annual net loss since 1972. Our annual 2020 operating revenues declined approximately 60 percent, year-over-year, and we experi