Case Analysis: The US Airline Industry in 2009 Introduction Throughout it’s more than 100 years of existence; the Airline Industry has struggled with firms’ ability to cover their costs of capital. The industry experienced many years of difficult with relatively short durations of sustained profitability (Grant‚ 2010). The airline industry history can be broken down into two distinct eras‚ the regulation era‚ prior to 1978‚ and the deregulation era‚ post 1978. During the regulation era‚ with
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Phoenix‚ California‚ Hawaii‚ and Savannah GA. Allegiant Airlines offers low prices travel packages. These packages include air‚ rental car and hotels. Allegiant was founded in 1997 in Fresno‚ California. In 1999‚ the company flew passengers between Fresno and Las Vegas utilizing a DC-9 aircraft. In December 2000‚ Allegiant filed for bankruptcy and Maurice J. Gallagher Jr. obtained control of the company. In June 2001‚ Gallagher reorganized the airline to a low cost model. He moved the company to moved
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Airline Ticket Prices Jodie L. Hebner Grantham University An airline’s ticket price is determined by several factors to include time of day a consumer wishes to travel‚ day of the week such as Tuesday’s and Thursday’s are usually the most affordable days to travel‚ popular versus non-popular destinations‚ first class costs more than general class‚ cost of fuel‚ competition from other airlines‚ special factors such as discounts for military‚ government or corporate personnel‚ (How Stuff Works‚
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Southwest Airlines Motivational Profile A motivational profile can provide insights into whether a company is doing the right thing or requires improvements. Although nearly every company proclaims its goal is to deliver exceptional service‚ research confirms that the service quality of many corporations is below consumer expectations. Southwest Airlines has created a competitive advantage through valuing employees’ needs as a strategy that motivates them to provide better customer service (Hallowell
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relevant changes taking place in its environment and formulate strategies to adapt to these changes. The overall environment of the Airlines Industry in the USA as found in this case‚ could be described as that of bitter rivalry. The hostility between competitors were so harsh that two rivals -Texas International and Braniff joined hands to destroy Southwest Airlines even before it could begin its operation. Failed to stop its operation‚ the rivals began to put up obstacles at every step Southwest
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Southwest Airlines provides short haul‚ high frequency‚ point-to-point‚ low-fare services to and from 58 cities across the United States. The company is known for its low-cost fares and superior customer service in the airline industry. The company was started in 1971 with a motto still lived by today‚ "If you get your passengers to their destinations when they want to get there‚ on time‚ at the lowest possible fares‚ and make darn sure they have a good time doing it‚ people will fly your airline." This
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Cathay Pacific Airlines Cathay Pacific has been serving and growing with Hong Kong for 60 years. Being as the world’s largest international cargo airline and the world’s busiest airport in terms of cargo traffic‚ Cathay Pacific is one of the seven airlines to be ranked as a 5-star airline by Skytrax in 2009. Affected by the unstable global situation of political‚ economic and cultural‚ each single change of general environment may cause significant influence of airline industry. Therefore‚ to
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Abstract. This report will be discussing strategic management to a company in the airline industry. This report will examine a chosen company’s strategic management and outline the stages. Strategic management is analyzing the situation facing the firm‚ also on the foundation of analysis formulating a strategy and lastly implementing strategy. Strategic management is the identification and the description of strategies that can be used by managers so as to attain better performance which in turn
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Executive Summary Malaysia Airlines Services or MAS is Malaysia national air transport service provider. Starting off in 1947‚ a small air service with just one twin engine Air Consul and now has become an award-winning airline with a fleet of more than 100 aircraft and servicing more than 100 different destinations. Three major human resource issues are being identified including over-supply of manpower and low productivity‚ discrimination and diversity. These three issues are being further
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A CASE ANALYSIS ON NORTH-SOUTH AIRLINE I. CASE BACKGROUND Northern Airlines merged with Southeast Airlines to create the fourth largest U.S. carrier in which it inherited both an aging fleet of Boeing 727-300 aircraft and Stephen Ruth. As the new president of the airline‚ Stephen’s first concern is to create a financially solid company since it is a common presumption for airline industries that maintenance costs rise with the age of aircrafts. He noticed that there have been significant differences
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