Sentence examples for slashed capacity from inspiring English sources
This, it says, has allowed prices to shoot upwards and slashed capacity margins, which are "so tight that National Grid's emergency power deals have become the norm".
Passengers flocked to Ryanair and its rival easyJet, which embarked on similar aggressive discounting.The reaction of the big, established network carriers in Europe and America was quite the opposite: they slashed capacity by 15-20%, anticipating (correctly) a slump in their passenger numbers.
When war broke out in 1991, BA quickly cut 4,600 jobs (without any forced redundancies) and stood down a further 2,000 staff on half-pay for a year.The world's favourite cost-cutterAfter September 11th, Mr Eddington cut 7,000 jobs immediately, slashed capacity by 10% and launched a review of the "future size and shape" of BA.
Buyers goggled and haggled over motherboards, memory chips, solid-state drives, servers, graphics cards, non-tangling cables, connectors, monitors and so on.In 2009 the prices of these electronic goods jumped suddenly, as buyers emerged from the financial crisis and started ordering more equipment from manufacturers which had slashed capacity.
In November, Qantas cut its 2008 earnings guidance to 500.0 million Australian dollars ($320.2 million), down from an August forecast of $750.0 million Australian dollars ($480.5 million), and also slashed capacity.
A new Philippines Civil Aviation Board, composed mostly of Tan supporters, told Taiwan to slash capacity.
Compounding matters, Japan's domestic oil market was deregulated in 1996, forcing refiners long cloistered from international competition to slash capacity.
Air Berlin is slashing capacity after being thrown a lifeline by Lufthansa but easyJet (and Ryanair for that matter) would prefer to see more radicalism.
American majors were able to slash capacity much faster than their European and Asian counterparts because many of their elderly planes were fully depreciated.
Chief executive Michael O'Leary also warned of slow autumn demand, meaning Ryanair is now slashing capacity over winter, grounding as many as 80 aircraft to cut costs.
Jeffery A. Smisek, the chief executive of United Continental Holdings, said he was determined to further slash capacity if fuel prices remained high.
