The Airline Industry Analysis and the Market Theory
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Submitting to : Dr. Ashlee Brown Word Count : 4300 Date : 23/03/2008
Student Name : Rajib Hasan Student no : 05093031 Course : BAAF, Year 3 Email : 05093931@dbs.ie
Industry analysis- The airline industry Few invention of science has change the way people live and experience the world they are living and airplane is one of them. The oldest airline company of the world is KLM, a subsidiary company of air France, start to operate from 1920. Today the airline industry has reached to the point where it would be hard to think of life without air travel. It has shortened the time and narrowed the world to us. Currently there are more than 1600 Airline Company working throughout the world and only quarters of them are quoted company. [1] Despite of financial crisis in 1997 to 1998 and 9/11 attack in USA, airline industry still remains one of the largest and fast growing industries in the world. In the past decade, airlines industry has grown 6.6% per year. IATA (International Air Transport Association) forecasted that air industry will grow by an average 6.6% a year to the end of the decade and over 7% a year from 2000 to 2010. [4] Another research carried out by the IATA reveled that Scheduled airlines carried 1.5 billion passenger’s last year world wide. The main reasons for growing airline industry that fast are international investments and rapid increase of international supply, production chains and customers, rapid growth of lovely tourist destinations etc. [pic] Airline industry is considered as capital intensive industry. It needs big investment for huge range of expensive equipment and airplane, from airplanes to flight simulators to maintenance hangars, aircraft tugs, airport counter space, gates etc. Consequently airline industry has become one of the most capital intensive industries in the world that require large amount
Submitting to : Dr. Ashlee Brown Word Count : 4300 Date : 23/03/2008
Student Name : Rajib Hasan Student no : 05093031 Course : BAAF, Year 3 Email : 05093931@dbs.ie
Industry analysis- The airline industry Few invention of science has change the way people live and experience the world they are living and airplane is one of them. The oldest airline company of the world is KLM, a subsidiary company of air France, start to operate from 1920. Today the airline industry has reached to the point where it would be hard to think of life without air travel. It has shortened the time and narrowed the world to us. Currently there are more than 1600 Airline Company working throughout the world and only quarters of them are quoted company. [1] Despite of financial crisis in 1997 to 1998 and 9/11 attack in USA, airline industry still remains one of the largest and fast growing industries in the world. In the past decade, airlines industry has grown 6.6% per year. IATA (International Air Transport Association) forecasted that air industry will grow by an average 6.6% a year to the end of the decade and over 7% a year from 2000 to 2010. [4] Another research carried out by the IATA reveled that Scheduled airlines carried 1.5 billion passenger’s last year world wide. The main reasons for growing airline industry that fast are international investments and rapid increase of international supply, production chains and customers, rapid growth of lovely tourist destinations etc. [pic] Airline industry is considered as capital intensive industry. It needs big investment for huge range of expensive equipment and airplane, from airplanes to flight simulators to maintenance hangars, aircraft tugs, airport counter space, gates etc. Consequently airline industry has become one of the most capital intensive industries in the world that require large amount
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