Essays Tagged: "airline companies"

SouthWest Airlines Case Study.

Executive SummaryThousands of people travel by air; Southwest Airlines provides low-fare air transportation service among 58 cities in the United States. Although ... blow from the terrorist attack of September 11th, the company is still holding strong; while other airline companies are in debt. The information was majority gathered and analyzed from the internet; ... d success is due to their low-cost model and competitors are aware that they cannot match Southwest Airlines low prices therefore, by dropping the price even lower; Southwest Airlines can force a comp ...

(12 pages) 2479 13 4.6 Apr/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Promotion tactics in the Airline Industry

r the tragic event of September 11. The way this industry has attracted people to them has changed. Airline companies have struggled with making new ways to market their products. Especially since mos ... ers to the industry. Some companies even stopped Domestic E-Fares (Konrad & Sandoval, 2001). Today airline advertising focuses on price, rather than the pleasure of the flying experience. Companies u ...

(4 pages) 148 0 3.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Case Analysis of "Star Alliance (A): A Global Network"

Problem Identification"The airline industry is facing the worst crisis in its history," Jaan Albrecht, CEO of Star Alliance, sa ... in 2001 (p. 618). The terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 and the economic recession had the airline industry face a sharp downturn for the second time since the beginning of the Gulf War in 19 ... hink on how to get customers back and moreover how to keep their current customers. Furthermore the airlines are facing a new threat from low-cost carriers, which are emerging and succeeding, especial ...

(10 pages) 272 1 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Southwest Airlines, Inc.

Company Background/Business ModelSouthwest Airlines, Inc. began in 1966 as an idea of Rollin King, an entrepreneur who owned a small commuter a ... of Rollin King, an entrepreneur who owned a small commuter air service. The business model for the airlines was to attract passengers by flying convenient schedules, getting passengers to their desti ... r destination on time at the lowest possible fares, and making sure they had a good experience. The airlines would service travelers going between Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. During the inception ...

(9 pages) 561 2 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The No-frills airlines

In contrast with the charter airlines, which existed long before deregulation, the airlines dealt with in this section came into ... n a very convenient price/service relationship, making savings on the second of those factors.These airline companies target that section of individual travellers who, if travelling with other compani ... er a certain size, the no-frills company adopts operating methods similar to those of the scheduled airline companies, maintaining a fierce competitive approach to pricing, while the latter are adopti ...

(6 pages) 134 0 0.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Virgin Blue

Company backgroundVirgin Blue, one of the airline companies in Australia, which provides lost cost, low fare domestic airline, offering freque ... stralian domestic aviation market. In fact, Virgin Blue has been become one of the fast growth rate airline company in the world that grew rapidly to become second domestic carrier in Australia. Until ... ed was similar to those successful low cost carriers in Europe and North America, such as Southwest Airlines and Ryanair. Similarly, Virgin blue operates only one type of aircraft, the Boeing 737 seri ...

(7 pages) 131 0 3.5 Apr/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Domestic Passenger Airline market in China

ry, large population and rich tourist resources, holds great potential for the development of civil airline market. What I am focusing on this report is the domestic passenger airline services offered ... n this report is the domestic passenger airline services offered in the People's Republic of China. Airline service in general is more like a banded consumer good. We all know that airline companies l ...

(9 pages) 50 0 3.7 Mar/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

Southwest Airline

Southwest started out as a small Texas airline that served the cities of Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Now, it is one the most successfu ... d and the employees have fun. In turn, the employees work hard and efficiently for the company.Many airlines have watched the success of Southwest Airlines. Large airline companies such as United have ... rline companies such as United have attempted to enter into the low fare, short haul market. United Airlines had created their own low fare airline, United Shuttle. United Shuttle served only the west ...

(1 pages) 32 0 1.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Emplyment Law

assembly companies with airplane parts. Green noticed that Ralee Engineering was shipping parts to airline companies that his inspection team failed during inspection. For two years Richard Green com ... used the argument of the public safety was in danger if these faulty parts were to be installed on airlines. Green also felt that there were a lot of inspectors that were retained, that were a lot le ...

(2 pages) 16 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Japan Vs. U.S. in the busines market

out on top, even if that means laying off a large amount of employees. This happened recently with airline companies to stay out of bankruptcy after 9/11. Japanese companies are different in this asp ...

(2 pages) 37 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Airbus A3XX

particularly in the cockpit design, in accordance with Airbus's philosophy. For the first time, the airline companies will be able to provide much more room than has ever been available. Passengers wi ... ersions. The A3XX's wider and more spacious cabin mean a versatile fuselage section that will allow airline companies to incorporate any configuration within the three decks.With the A3XX, Airbus Indu ...

(3 pages) 30 0 0.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Airlines Affected

� PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT �1� Page � PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT �3� Airlines AffectedWritten by Mandie BodenUniversity of Phoenix�Airlines AffectedThe United Sta ... at has billions of dollars in equipment and gross revenue, they employ thousands of people, but the airline companies can be toppled by the equivelant of a feather when the economy takes a turn for th ...

(8 pages) 47 0 4.2 Apr/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Analysis and Recommendations for the Airline Industry

The United States airline Industry is a complex business that is affected by many internal and external factors. The s ... e tragedy of 9/11 was the initial factor leading to the downward spiral of failure that the current airlines face today (Siddiqi, 2009). Currently, the International Air Transport Association reported ... d influenced by competition, buyer power, technology, and the economy. While it is evident that the airline industry is suffering as a whole, there is one airline that is flourishing with achievement ...

(13 pages) 82 0 0.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Effects of quality management on domestic and global competition paper

d the effect of a domestic market and a global market. The companies that will be used are American Airlines which operates domestically and Lufthansa which operates globally.For many years American A ... Lufthansa which operates globally.For many years American Airline and Lufthansa have been dominant airline companies within their industries. Regardless of the global economy these companies have bee ...

(3 pages) 140 0 0.0 Aug/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies