It can show potential losses from a storm, and also potential lost premium a carrier would suffer by not taking on the risk.
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Over the past year, Bienenstock notes, the carrier has lost 8.9% of its contract customers and 5.4% of its service revenues, in a period in which the market has been growing.
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The carrier claims to have lost more than 100 million euros last year due to events beyond its control, such as the volcano and winter storms.
It lost its exclusive contract as its carrier this year, when Verizon Communications ( VZ) and Vodafone ( VOD) joint venture Verizon Wireless began carrying the service.
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Carrier Access bid on them anyway--and lost out to Cisco and Nortel.
He adds that getting out of the strike-carrier business for ten years means that critical skills will be lost.
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Companies like Air Berlin, Germany's second biggest carrier, have been severely affected by the delays and are suing for lost revenues.
The sprawling aerospace company forged from the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft in 1967 saw its carrier-based A-12 bomber canceled in January, and then lost the competition to build a successor to its signature F-15 fighter three months later.
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For every 1, 000 passengers, 3.5 lost baggage, more than the national average of 3.2 and worse than every big carrier but American.
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