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 (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whales (Mysticeti). At 30 metres (98 ft) in length and 180 tonnes (200 short tons) or more in weight, it is the largest extant animal and is the heaviest known to have existed.Long and slender, the blue whale's body can be various shades of bluish-grey dorsally and somewhat lighter underneath.here are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda (also known as the pygmy blue whale) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean. B. m. indica, found in the Indian Ocean, may be another subspecies.