Spain's #2 airline (after Iberia), Spanair provides scheduled and charter passenger services within its home country and throughout Europe, as well as to selected destinations in the Americas. It operates a fleet of 60 aircraft, including MD-80 jets as well as newer models from Airbus and Boeing. Spanair offers service to additional destinations via its partners in the Star Alliance, a global airline marketing and code-sharing alliance. (Code-sharing enables carriers to sell tickets on one another's flights and thus extend their networks.) Spanair was a subsidiary of Scandinavian carrier (and Star Alliance member) SAS until early 2009 when SAS sold the company to a group of Spanish investors.

Air Canada is Canada’s largest full-service airline and the largest provider of scheduled passenger services in the Canadian market, the Canada-U.S. transborder market and in the international market to and from Canada. In 2008, Air Canada together with its regional partner Jazz carried approximately 33 million passengers, providing direct passenger service to more than 170 destinations on five continents. Air Canada is a founding member of Star Alliance™, providing the world's most comprehensive air transportation network.Air Canada's predecessor, Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) inaugurated its first flight on September 1, 1937. The 50-minute flight aboard a Lockheed L-10A carried two passengers and mail between Vancouver and Seattle. By 1964, TCA had grown to become Canada's national airline; it changed its name to Air Canada. The airline became fully privatized in 1989. In 2000, Air Canada acquired Canadian Airlines International. Today, Air Canada is the 13th largest commercial airline in the world, with approximately 24,700 full-time equivalent employees. Air Canada actively supports charitable organizations through its Community Investments program, Kids' Horizons. (www.aircanada.com/kids) Air Canada shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol “AC-B.TO”.

Cessna Aircraft is one of the most famous names in small planes. A subsidiary of Textron, the company manufactures business jets, utility turboprops, and small single-engine planes. Best known for its small prop planes, Cessna is also a leading maker of business jets; it makes nine variations of its popular Citation jet. Cessna's single-engine planes are typically used for personal and small-business purposes. Cessna also offers fractional ownership programs for its business jets. It has delivered more than 190,000 jets and planes during its 80-year-plus history, making it the world's leading general-aviation aircraft company. Cessna accounts for about 40% of Textron's sales.

Hub Group, Inc., an asset-light freight transportation management company, provides intermodal, truck brokerage, and logistics services in North America. Its intermodal services consist of arranging for the movement of customers' freight in containers and trailers over long distances. The company contracts with railroads to provide transportation for the long-haul portion of the shipment, and with local trucking companies for pickup and delivery. Its truck brokerage operations provide customers with specialized programs, including the Dedicated Trucking program, where certain carriers informally move freight for its customers on a continuous basis.The company offers various transportation management services and technology solutions, including shipment optimization, load consolidation, mode selection, carrier management, load planning and execution, and Web-based shipment visibility. It also provides rail and international drayage services for the intermodal sector. Hub Group primarily serves consumer products, retail, and durable goods industries. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois.

Lockheed Martin UK INSYS (formerly INSYS) is a defense contractor with four divisions. The company's communications and information systems unit provides network assisted, secure communications and information for portable weapons and equipment in land vehicles and craft. Its precision strike and maneuver division works with other contractors to provide tactical vehicles and weapons systems. The future concepts division focuses on special projects, weapon performance evaluation, and modeling and simulation. The company's manufacturing arm assembles and machines components for use by other defense contractors.

Air Philippines is setting its course to become the low-cost airline of choice for Asia. The carrier, an affiliate of national flag carrier Philippines Airlines, offers scheduled and charter services with about 20 destinations throughout the Philippines, as well as in South Korea and China. The airline is also approved to fly to the US, Singapore, and Japan. Established in 1995, Air Philippines officially took to the skies a year later and now operates a fleet of about 10 Boeing 737s as well as a handful of Bombardier Q300s and Q400s. Philippine tycoon Lucio Tan controls the company and also owns Philippine Airlines.

Dart Group generates revenue from vacationers and vegetables. The company's aviation unit, Jet2.com, provides scheduled and charter passenger services to about 40 destinations, including both vacation spots and business centers, throughout Europe. It also transports mail and other cargo. Jet2.com operates a fleet of about 30 Boeing 737s and 757s from several bases in the UK. Dart Group's other major business unit, Fowler Welch-Coolchain, transports fresh produce and other temperature-controlled goods, mainly in the UK but also in continental Europe. Fowler Welch-Coolchain also provides warehousing and distribution of standard dry freight. It operates more than 500,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space.

Kreisler has manufactured precision components for the aerospace industry for over half a century by delivering a consistently high quality product and helping our customer solve complex engineering and manufacturing challenges. Success over the years has been defined by an ability to provide innovative solutions with changes in design, technology and equipment. Kreisler offers its customers in-house manufacturing and engineering services that reduce costs at every stage of production, from design to assembly and inspection. Sophisticated design software and state-of-the-art manufacturing and inspection equipment deliver the best components possible. An ISO 9000 registered quality system and aerospace certified manufacturing processes compliment the engineering and manufacturing organization by making sure processes are under statistical control and products are consistent in quality. The company's technical capabilities are complimented by continuous improvement efforts and certified quality systems that help to improve product quality and reliability. Kreisler has earned NADCAP accreditation for internal manufacturing processes including welding, nickel plating, as well as special chemical processes such as passivation and titanium cleaning.

Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., a regional airline company, operates as an independent carrier in the United States. The company also operates as a code share partner, through agreements with United Air Lines, Inc. and Frontier Airlines, Inc. It offers charter services to private individuals, corporations, and athletic teams, as well as carries freight and small packages on its scheduled flights. The company also provides essential air service program services to airports in Vernal and Moab, Utah; Manhattan and Salina, Kansas; Cape Girardeau and Joplin, Missouri; McCook, Nebraska; Ironwood and Manistee, Michigan; Lewistown, Sidney, and Miles City, Montana; Ely, Nevada; Prescott, Arizona; and Merced and Visalia, California. Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. serves 65 airports in 17 states with a fleet of 28 Beechcraft Model 1900D 19-passenger aircraft and 6 Embraer Brasilia Model 120 30-passenger aircraft. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Air transportation from state to state is the job of Trans States Airlines. The regional carrier offers flights to more than 45 cities in some 25 states, mainly in the midwestern and northeastern US. Trans States operates as AmericanConnection for American Airlines from a hub in St. Louis, and it operates as US Airways Express from a hub in Pittsburgh for US Airways. It also provides regional service for United Airlines as United Express from hubs in Chicago, Denver, and Washington, DC. Overall, Trans States Airlines operates a fleet of about 50 Embraer 50-seat regional jets. The company was founded in 1982 as Resort Air.

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