MEXICO CITY, Dec. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: VLRS and BMV: VOLAR) ("Volaris” or "the Company”), the ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) serving Mexico, the United States, Central and South America, reports its November 2024 preliminary traffic results. In November, Volaris' ASM capacity decreased by 3.7% year-over-year due to the Pratt & Whitney engine inspections offset by fewer aircraft groundings following the return of the initial batch of inspected engines. Volaris transported 2.6 million passengers during the month with a load factor of 86.8%, a 3.0 pp decrease from last year. RPMs for the month declined by 6.9%, with Mexican domestic RPMs down 10.5%, while international RPMs were effectively flat. When comparing year-over-year RPMs and load factor results it is useful to note that our 2023 figures were impacted by the accelerating engine inspections. Last year, we had to reduce operations as engines temporarily left our fleet; today, we are gradually adding capacity as engines and aircraft return. Enrique Beltranena, Volaris' President and CEO, said : "Demand remains solid across the Volaris network, particularly as the domestic market continues to be resilient. Heading into the winter season, we continue strategically investing in the transborder market. In November, we added transborder capacity in preparation for the December high season, which is ramping up. We see this ramping well into the peak holiday season and will continue to manage low-season demand elasticity through capacity adjustments when necessary.” Mr. Beltranena added: "We are pleased with our strong operating figures year-to-date despite the headwinds, such as the GTF engine inspections.” 2024 2023 November 2024 November 2023 Glossary Revenue passenger miles (RPMs): Number of seats booked by passengers multiplied by the number of miles flown. Available seat miles (ASMs): Number of seats available for passengers multiplied by the number of miles flown. Load factor: RPMs divided by ASMs and expressed as a percentage. Passengers: The total number of passengers booked on all flight segments. Investor Relations Contact Ricardo Martínez / [email protected] Media Contact Israel Álvarez / [email protected] About Volaris *Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. ("Volaris” or "the Company”) (NYSE: VLRS and BMV: VOLAR) is an ultra-low-cost carrier, with point-to-point operations, serving Mexico, the United States, Central, and South America. Volaris offers low base fares to build its market, providing quality service and extensive customer choice. Since the beginning of operations in March 2006, Volaris has increased its routes from 5 to more than 219 and its fleet from 4 to 142 aircraft. Volaris offers more than 450 daily flight segments on routes that connect 44 cities in Mexico and 29 cities in the United States, Central, and South America, with one of the youngest fleets in Mexico. Volaris targets passengers who are visiting friends and relatives, cost-conscious business and leisure travelers in Mexico, the United States, Central, and South America. Volaris has received the ESR Award for Social Corporate Responsibility for fifteen consecutive years. For more information, please visit ir.volaris.com . Volaris routinely posts information that may be important to investors on its investor relations website. The Company encourages investors and potential investors to consult the Volaris website regularly for important information about Volaris.
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Impartner Partner Relationship Management platform now available in the Microsoft Azure MarketplaceFAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Nyle Ralph-Beyer's 20 points helped Sacred Heart defeat Division III-member Manhattanville 100-60 on Sunday. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Nyle Ralph-Beyer's 20 points helped Sacred Heart defeat Division III-member Manhattanville 100-60 on Sunday. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Nyle Ralph-Beyer’s 20 points helped Sacred Heart defeat Division III-member Manhattanville 100-60 on Sunday. Ralph-Beyer also had five rebounds for the Pioneers (5-8, 1-1 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference). Anquan Hill scored 18 points and added seven rebounds. Griffin Barrouk had 16 points and went 5 of 8 from the field (4 for 7 from 3-point range). Andrew Saint-Louis led the Valiants in scoring, finishing with 26 points. John Ranaghan added 10 points for Manhattanville. Don Mays Jr. also had eight points. Sacred Heart hosts Canisius in its next matchup on Sunday. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. Advertisement
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Thrivent Financial for Lutherans trimmed its position in shares of Independent Bank Group, Inc. ( NASDAQ:IBTX – Free Report ) by 5.3% in the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 28,313 shares of the bank’s stock after selling 1,572 shares during the period. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans’ holdings in Independent Bank Group were worth $1,633,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Magnetar Financial LLC purchased a new stake in Independent Bank Group during the second quarter worth about $14,146,000. Silver Lake Advisory LLC purchased a new stake in Independent Bank Group during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $5,491,000. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP increased its stake in Independent Bank Group by 1.7% during the 2nd quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 2,316,743 shares of the bank’s stock worth $105,456,000 after buying an additional 39,091 shares during the period. Versor Investments LP acquired a new stake in Independent Bank Group during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $1,296,000. Finally, Water Island Capital LLC purchased a new position in Independent Bank Group in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $806,000. 77.90% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Truist Financial cut their price objective on Independent Bank Group from $66.00 to $63.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, October 23rd. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods upped their price target on Independent Bank Group from $69.00 to $72.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Finally, StockNews.com started coverage on Independent Bank Group in a research report on Saturday. They issued a “sell” rating on the stock. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Independent Bank Group presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $58.83. Independent Bank Group Trading Down 0.5 % Shares of Independent Bank Group stock opened at $66.92 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 0.97, a quick ratio of 0.97 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26. Independent Bank Group, Inc. has a 12-month low of $36.47 and a 12-month high of $68.66. The stock has a market cap of $2.77 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -6.40 and a beta of 1.38. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $60.50 and a 200-day simple moving average of $53.97. Independent Bank Group ( NASDAQ:IBTX – Get Free Report ) last released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, October 21st. The bank reported $0.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.71 by ($0.21). Independent Bank Group had a positive return on equity of 4.49% and a negative net margin of 43.45%. The firm had revenue of $255.18 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $124.48 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.79 EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that Independent Bank Group, Inc. will post 2.7 EPS for the current fiscal year. Independent Bank Group Dividend Announcement The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, November 14th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, October 31st were issued a $0.38 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, October 31st. This represents a $1.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.27%. Independent Bank Group’s payout ratio is -14.53%. Independent Bank Group Profile ( Free Report ) Independent Bank Group, Inc, through its subsidiary, Independent Bank provides various commercial banking products and services to businesses, professionals, and individuals in the United States. It accepts various deposit products, including checking and savings accounts, demand deposits, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. See Also Want to see what other hedge funds are holding IBTX? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Independent Bank Group, Inc. ( NASDAQ:IBTX – Free Report ). 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He is the embodiment of the crown. Which means Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree is the unlikely face of white colonialism in Canada — or at least its historical legacy. Like any other Canadian, he may not be personally responsible for the sins of Canada’s past. Today, however, the minister is politically accountable for solutions of the future. As a Tamil immigrant from Sri Lanka — also colonized by the British crown — he is especially conscious of the colonial history that touches all Canadians. As a human rights lawyer and community activist in his previous life, Anandasangaree had been thinking about it since long before he entered politics a decade ago. While many people may feel far removed from that colonial legacy today, geographically or historically, his answer hasn’t changed: Whether you were born here or came here, Canada is a land of opportunity today largely because of the injustices of the past — from the early confiscation of land to the ongoing suppression of Indigenous identity. “What I have been able to benefit from in this country — whether it’s a top-notch education system ... whether it’s economic, whether it’s access to health care ... all of those things led me to a deeper understanding that I am benefiting from this colonial process and this system,” the minister told that I hosted at Toronto Metropolitan University. “All Canadians, I think, need to come on board and understand that this is our collective journey.” Anandasangaree himself has been on a journey of apology since becoming minister last year. Last summer he First Nations communities for long-standing injustices. Last month he apologized to for mismanagement of funds in the past, formally declaring, “The Crown failed to act honourably.” This past weekend, shortly after our event, he flew to Northern Quebec to deliver a promised for the mass slaughter of sled dogs that devastated communities in the 1950s and 1960s, telling them: “On behalf of the government of Canada and of all the Canadians, I am sorry. Please forgive us.” Are the apologies accepted? The atmosphere can sometimes be tearful, but must always be truthful. “Apologies are hollow if they’re not meaningful ... ultimately this is about setting the record straight,” the minister told me. “It’s not about compensation, it’s actually about telling the truth, acknowledging the truth.” The reality is that progress has been painfully slow. At a Democracy Forum a few years ago, Indigenous onstage while explaining to our campus audience that he couldn’t safely do the same in his Northern Ontario riding of Kiiwetinoong because of boil water advisories on reserves. I also recounted to the minister how as a foreign correspondent, I’d seen troops from the Canadian military’s rapid-response DART (Disaster Assistance Response Team) deployed to his native Sri Lanka to deliver clean water after the 2005 tsunami hit, while Indigenous reserves across Canada had to do without. Anandasangaree acknowledged the double standard, on-reserve and off, but argued that the federal Liberals made it a priority to dramatically reduce boil water advisories that were once in the hundreds. A government tally shows there are still 20 boil water advisories in Ontario today. Against that backdrop, an epidemic of suicide among Indigenous youth is increasing at the very time that Canadians are talking openly about mental health and driving death rates down across the country. Anandasangaree himself raised the deaths of , noting it has received relatively little media coverage. Future economic opportunity is part of the answer, but so too is healing — and an accounting of history, including attachment to language and culture. Those themes came up frequently in audience questions from students, who asked him how to incorporate more Indigenous content in curriculums across the country, as mandated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015. Greater awareness of history could one day build broader public support for compromise and compensation by politicians in power, which isn’t always forthcoming. I asked the minister about the political peril of getting too far out in front of voters who might begrudge costly land claims settlements or balk at child welfare compensation (First Nations chiefs recently rejected a $47-billion package as inadequate). The inertia isn’t always with politicians; the resistance is sometimes with the public. Anandasangaree suggested that British Columbia’s NDP government may have been seen by some voters, in the recent provincial election campaign, as making too many costly concessions on Indigenous issues. “They have moved mountains on reconciliation, they have invested heavily ... they are looking at reconciliation in a very different way than any previous provincial government,” he mused. “They have encountered resistance — a reaction — from voters ... there’s a gap.” For better or for worse, that’s democracy.Lea Miller-Tooley hopped off a call to welcome the Baylor women’s basketball team to the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, where 80-degree temperatures made it easy for the Bears to settle in on Paradise Island a week before Thanksgiving. About 5,000 miles west of the Caribbean nation, similar climes awaited Maui Invitational men's teams in Hawaii. They’ve often been greeted with leis, the traditional Hawaiian welcome of friendship. College basketball teams and fans look forward to this time of the year. The holiday week tournaments feature buzzworthy matchups and all-day TV coverage, sure, but there is a familiarity about them as they help ward off the November chill. For four decades, these sandy-beach getaways filled with basketball have become a beloved mainstay of the sport itself. “When you see (ESPN’s) ‘Feast Week’ of college basketball on TV, when you see the Battle 4 Atlantis on TV, you know college basketball is back,” said Miller-Tooley, the founder and organizer of the Battle 4 Atlantis men's and women's tournaments. “Because it’s a saturated time of the year with the NFL, college football and the NBA. But when you see these gorgeous events in these beautiful places, you realize, ‘Wow, hoops are back, let’s get excited.’” The Great Alaska Shootout was the trend-setting multiple-team event (MTE) nearly five decades ago. The brainchild of late Alaska-Anchorage coach Bob Rachal sought to raise his program’s profile by bringing in national-power programs, which could take advantage of NCAA rules allowing them to exceed the maximum allotment of regular-season games if they played the three-game tournament outside the contiguous 48 states. The first edition, named the Sea Wolf Classic, saw N.C. State beat Louisville 72-66 for the title on Nov. 26, 1978. The Maui Invitational followed in November 1984, borne from the buzz of NAIA program Chaminade’s shocking upset of top-ranked Virginia and 7-foot-4 star Ralph Sampson in Hawaii two years earlier. Events kept coming, with warm-weather locales getting in on the action. The Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Cancun Challenge in Mexico. The Cayman Islands Classic. The Jamaica Classic. The Myrtle Beach Invitational joining the Charleston Classic in South Carolina. Numerous tournaments in Florida. Some events have faded away like the Puerto Rico Tipoff and the Great Alaska Shootout, the latter in 2017 amid event competition and schools opting for warm-weather locales. Notre Dame takes on Chaminade during the first half of a 2017 game in Lahaina, Hawaii. Miller-Tooley’s push to build an MTE for Atlantis began as a December 2010 doubleheader with Georgia Tech beating Richmond and Virginia Tech beating Mississippi State in a prove-it moment for a tournament’s viability. It also required changing NCAA legislation to permit MTEs in the Bahamas. Approval came in March 2011; the first eight-team Atlantis men’s tournament followed in November. That tournament quickly earned marquee status with big-name fields, with Atlantis champions Villanova (2017) and Virginia (2018) later winning that season’s NCAA title. Games run in a ballroom-turned-arena at the resort, where players also check out massive swimming pools, water slides and inner-tube rapids surrounded by palm trees and the Atlantic Ocean. “It’s just the value of getting your passport stamped, that will never get old,” Miller-Tooley said. “Watching some of these kids, this may be their first and last time – and staff and families – that they ever travel outside the United States. ... You can see through these kids’ eyes that it’s really an unbelievable experience.” ACC Network analyst Luke Hancock knows that firsthand. His Louisville team finished second at Atlantis in 2012 and won that year’s later-vacated NCAA title, with Hancock as the Final Four's most outstanding player. “I remember (then-coach Rick Pitino) saying something to the effect of: ‘Some of you guys might never get this opportunity again. We’re staying in this unbelievable place, you’re doing it with people you love,’” Hancock said. “It was a business trip for us there at Thanksgiving, but he definitely had a tone of ‘We’ve got to enjoy this as well.’” Maui offers similar vibes, though 2024 could be a little different as Lahaina recovers from deadly 2023 wildfires that forced the event's relocation last year. North Carolina assistant coach Sean May played for the Tar Heels’ Maui winner in 2004 and was part of UNC’s staff for the 2016 champion, with both teams later winning the NCAA title. May said “you just feel the peacefulness” of the area — even while focusing on games — and savors memories of the team taking a boat out on the Pacific Ocean after title runs under now-retired Hall of Famer Roy Williams. “Teams like us, Dukes, UConns – you want to go to places that are very well-run,” May said. “Maui, Lea Miller with her group at the Battle 4 Atlantis, that’s what drives teams to come back because you know you’re going to get standard A-quality of not only the preparation but the tournament with the way it’s run. Everything is top-notch. And I think that brings guys back year after year.” That’s why Colorado coach Tad Boyle is so excited for the Buffaloes’ first Maui appearance since 2009. “We’ve been trying to get in the tournament since I got here,” said Boyle, now in his 15th season. And of course, that warm-weather setting sure doesn’t hurt. “If you talk about the Marquettes of the world, St. John’s, Providence – they don’t want that cold weather,” said NBA and college TV analyst Terrence Oglesby, who played for Clemson in the 2007 San Juan Invitational in Puerto Rico. “They’re going to have to deal with that all January and February. You might as well get a taste of what the sun feels like.” Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo argues a call during the first half of a Nov. 16 game against Bowling Green in East Lansing, Michigan. Mi zzo is making his fourth trip to Maui. The men’s Baha Mar Championship in Nassau, Bahamas, got things rolling last week with No. 11 Tennessee routing No. 13 Baylor for the title. The week ahead could boast matchups befitting the Final Four, with teams having two weeks of action since any opening-night hiccups. “It’s a special kickoff to the college basketball season,” Oglesby said. “It’s just without the rust.” On the women’s side, Atlantis began its fourth eight-team women’s tournament Saturday with No. 16 North Carolina and No. 18 Baylor, while the nearby Baha Mar resort follows with two four-team women’s brackets that include No. 2 UConn, No. 7 LSU, No. 17 Mississippi and No. 20 N.C. State. Then come the men’s headliners. The Maui Invitational turns 40 as it opens Monday back in Lahaina. It features second-ranked and two-time reigning national champion UConn, No. 4 Auburn, No. 5 Iowa State and No. 10 North Carolina. The Battle 4 Atlantis opens its 13th men’s tournament Wednesday, topped by No. 3 Gonzaga, No. 16 Indiana and No. 17 Arizona. 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You can often find high-quality items at a fraction of the cost of brand-name retailers. Embrace Digital Learning For students in need of laptops or tablets, consider buying refurbished models or taking advantage of school or government programs offering discounted technology. By being strategic and planning ahead, families can significantly reduce back-to-school expenses while still providing everything students need to succeed.
Republican Rep. on Sunday bashed his own party over their treatment of House Speaker , calling them “stupid” for considering ousting him. Johnson only replaced fellow Republican in October 2023, and now faces reelection on Friday—with many thinking he’s unlikely to be voted back into the role. Lawler didn’t hide his admiration for “the most conservative speaker” in history, and told ABC’s anchor Jonathan Karl that the GOP would be shooting themselves in the foot by getting rid of him. “The fact is that Mike Johnson inherited a disaster when Matt Gaetz and several of my colleagues teamed up with 208 Democrats to remove Kevin McCarthy, which will go down as the single stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in politics,” the New York lawmaker said. “With that said, removing Mike Johnson would equally be as stupid. The fact is that these folks are playing with fire, and if they think they’re somehow going to get a more conservative speaker, they’re kidding themselves.” Lawler gushed over Johnson’s conservatism, while also reiterating fears that President-elect as planned if debate over the speaker simmers too far into the new year. “Mike Johnson is arguably the most conservative speaker that’s ever been elected to the office,” he said. “We can’t get anything done unless we have a speaker, including certifying President Trump’s election on January 6th. So, to waste time over a nonsensical intramural food fight is a joke.” While Johnson unveiled a strong pro-Johnson stance during the segment, host Karl hinted that he didn’t see the vote going his way. Karl said: “So the house comes together, Congress reconvenes, in just five days on Friday. First order of business in the house is electing a new speaker. Despite what you heard Lawler say there, I think it is going to be very difficult for Mike Johnson to get the votes he needs to get reelected.” Similar were shared with the Daily Beast earlier this month, after rebels within the party saw a spending bill ripped to shreds. “People are not happy with him right now,” one Republican moderate said. “But without an actual replacement I don’t see how it could be serious.” Another simply told the Daily Beast, “Johnson is f---ed.”KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sara Puckett had 17 points and Ruby Whitehorn scored 16 as No. 15 Tennessee walloped Winthrop 112-50 on Sunday, earning the Lady Volunteers the seventh 12-0 start to a season in program history. Puckett made 6 of 10 shots with a 3-pointer and all four of her free throws, adding eight rebounds for Tennessee, which is unbeaten through 12 games in its first season under head coach Kim Caldwell — and for just the second time in the past 19 seasons. Whitehorn made 7 of 13 from the floor and both of her foul shots. Jewel Spear hit three 3-pointers and scored 15 for the Lady Vols. Kaniya Boyd scored 15 off the bench on 5-for-5 shooting with a 3-pointer. Zee Spearman added 14 points and reserve Tess Darby scored 10. Amourie Porter made all eight of her free throws and scored 14 to lead the Eagles (6-7), who fell to 1-5 on the road. Eight different players scored as Tennessee led 35-13 after one quarter. Spear and Puckett each had nine points by halftime and Whitehorn scored eight as the Lady Vols took a 61-32 advantage into intermission. Tennessee added eight points to its lead after three quarters and outscored Winthrop 31-4 in the final period. Tennessee entered play leading the nation in scoring average (97.4), 3-pointers made per game (12.6) and attempted per game (38.3) as well as offensive rebounds per contest (21.5) and turnovers forced (27.2). It was the sixth time the Lady Vols have scored at least 100 this season. Tennessee opens Southeastern Conference play on Thursday at Texas A&M. Winthrop travels to South Carolina Upstate on Thursday for a Big South Conference opener. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball
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