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UPS says Worldport expansion complete
 UPS has completed the $1 billion expansion of its Worldport air hub at Louisville International Airport, which began in 2006.
The 1.2 million-square-foot expansion of Worldport increased the highly automated facility's package sorting capacity by 37 percent to 416,000 packages an hour.
UPS opened the first segment of the expansion last July. That portion of the project increased package handling capability to 350,000 an hour compared with 304,000 before.
Worldport now has 70 aircraft parking bays, allowing more planes to unload and load packages each night. The facility measures 5.2 million square feet and contains 115 miles of conveyors.
Worldport has about 8,900 employees. Overall, UPS has about 20,000 employees in Louisville. Read more.
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Frontier begins Louisville-Denver service
Frontier Airlines recently launched service between Louisville International Airport and Denver International Airport.
Frontier now has daily nonstop jet service, using Airbus 132-seat aircraft.
Frontier operates more than 550 daily flights to more than 70 destinations in the United States, Mexico and Costa Rica. Read more.
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Humana, Yum!, Kindred make Fortune 500
Louisville-based companies Humana Inc., Yum! Brands Inc. and Kindred Healthcare Inc. have been named to Fortune Magazine's annual Fortune 500 list, a ranking of the nation's largest public companies by 2009 total annual revenue.
Health insurance provider Humana appears at No. 73 on the list, with revenue of $30 billion. Yum!, parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants, is ranked No. 216, with revenue of $10.9 billion. Hospital operator Kindred is ranked No. 477, with revenue of $4.3 billion. Read more.
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PCA-Corrections, ParkVu could add up to 48 jobs in Louisville
Two companies received preliminary approval from the Kentucky Economic Development and Finance Authority to expand operations and add a combined 48 jobs in Louisville.
Louisville-based PCA-Corrections LLC, a regional institutional pharmacy, received preliminary approval for as much as $600,000 in tax incentives through the state's Kentucky Business Investment program for up to 10 years.
The company, which provides pharmaceuticals to nursing homes, group homes and other institutions, expects to add 30 jobs with new annual payroll of nearly $1.6 million.
And technology firm ParkVu Inc., of Waterloo, Ontario, received preliminary approval for up to $175,000 in incentives, also through the KBI program, for up to 10 years.
The company is moving to Louisville and expects to add 18 jobs with new annual payroll of nearly $1.3 million. Read more.
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Louisville residents enjoy shorter commute times
 Louisville residents enjoy one of the nation's shortest commute times when compared with other cities in 52 major U.S. metropolitan markets, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2006-2008 American Community Survey.
Louisville had the ninth-shortest average commute time - 22.92 minutes - among metropolitan areas with greater than 1 million residents, according to a list compiled by Business First of Buffalo, a Business First of Louisville sister publication.
Rochester, N.Y., had the shortest average commute time, at 20.37 minutes. New York City had the longest average commute time, at 34.55 minutes. Read more.
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