Essays Tagged: "Delta Air Lines"

Why Southwest can succeed in the airline industry.

1st Quarter 2000American Airlines($43 million)$132 millionUnited Airlines($313 million)($99 million)Delta Air Lines($133 million)$172 millionUS Airways($178 million)($115 million)Northwest Airlines($1 ... to Washington to discuss the problems of the past summer. (American Airline's accident rate is up; Delta is getting complaints; and Northwest prompted a new wave of outrage by leaving passengers on a ...

(9 pages) 894 0 3.7 Jul/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Solution to Southwest Airlines 1993 expansion.

t, which allow Southwest to exploit economies of density and maintain a fleet comprised of a single aircraft type, thus minimizing maintenance, spare parts inventory and pilots training costs. In ente ... enance, spare parts inventory and pilots training costs. In entering new markets, Southwest chooses airports that are readily accessible, rather than large, crowded international airport, which saves ...

(6 pages) 243 0 4.2 Jul/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Airline industry.

about twenty per cent of the world market. The other large groups are Skyteam led by Air France and Delta Airline and the alliance formed by KLM and Northwest Airlines. Often the decision of starting ...

(8 pages) 654 1 3.9 Sep/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Case Study Delta Airlines

Pg. 1 Many of the world's major airlines are growing and Delta Air Lines continues to grow with them. Delta is a full-service carrier that flies passengers a ... hat flies passengers and cargo, and is ranked third behind United Air Lines and American Air Lines. Delta's Headquarters is located at : Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport 1030 Delta Blvd., P.O ... 5. Three years later in 1928, C.E. Woolman and two other partners bought the service and renamed it Delta Air Service. In 1929 Delta transferred mail without a government subsidy. Delta finally got a ...

(4 pages) 239 0 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

British Airways plc

ate-owned railroad (CNR), creating a national transportation network. In the USA, during the 1960s, Delta Air Lines co-operated with Holiday Inn (hotels) to popularise the slogan, "Holiday Inn and Del ... arise the slogan, "Holiday Inn and Delta Air Lines invite you to stay an extra day and fly home the Delta Way". Meanwhile, Canadian Pacific established its own integrated airline, hotel, railroad and ...

(20 pages) 408 1 4.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Business ethics

ss? Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act of 1912 gave the FTC the power to attack unfair and deceptive acts of business practice. In order to be considered deceptive under the FTC's 198 ... rthy.43-47). The deceptive advertisement at issue here is produced by a company, which consolidates airline tickets. Ticket consolidation is a process whereby a company buys blocks of tickets at whole ...

(9 pages) 245 0 5.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Flying on empty - America's airlines.

landscape is now being visited by a sixth horseman of the apocalypse: oil prices. On September 14th Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines, America's third and fourth-largest airlines, filed for bankr ... l is robbing the industry of a return to profitability," Mr Bisignani said in Washington this week. Delta has gone bankrupt despite a big refinancing last September, several efforts to shrink its netw ...

(5 pages) 65 0 4.5 Feb/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Marketing Essay: How to do a SWOT Analysis

active is the market or direction they're considering? What's their market share and cost structure?Delta Air Lines Inc., for example, chose to invest in a multibillion-dollar customer service system ... gh some companies might think the move was excessive considering 80% of customers have no problems, Delta believed customer service was an important area for increasing market share and that competito ...

(3 pages) 583 0 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Staffing Plan: Delta Airlines

most costly item for an organizations budget. I work for Technical Operations that is a division of Delta Airlines. Delta is the world's second-largest airline in terms of passengers carried and the l ... d States carrier across the Atlantic, offering daily flights to 492 destinations in 89 countries on Delta, Song, Delta Shuttle, the Delta Connection carriers, and its worldwide partners (Delta, 2005). ...

(3 pages) 200 0 1.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Airline Analysis

ow them to feed their own route. The competitors that we are considering are 1) United 2) Alaska 3) Delta and 4) Southwest. In order to find the best possible route to open we will evaluate each of th ... owerful enough to compete on their own, and still be the strong name and corporation that they are. Delta Airlines Delta Air Lines, the #3 US carrier (behind UAL's United and AMR's American), is expan ...

(9 pages) 182 0 2.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Ethical Standards and Technology in the Workplace

reas in which technology affects our lives in the workplace. The high-level of ethical standards at Delta Airlines goes hand-in-hand with technology. In order for Delta to maintain a high-level of eth ... m in their goal. The use of the internet is mandatory for a company that is as large and diverse as Delta but what is available to be viewed is regulated by technology. The use of e-mail is also a nec ...

(4 pages) 71 0 0.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Delta Airlines

Industry Analysis (Delta Airlines) June 16, 2001 Delta airline was founded in 1924 in Monroe, Louisiana. Delta ... ware corporation headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, where it has been since its relocation in 1941. Delta's mission is to build on traditions of superior customer service and to always meet customer e ... and to always meet customer expectations while taking service to even higher levels of excellence. Delta also has an added promise to provide value and distinctive products to their customers, which ...

(1 pages) 43 0 5.0 Jun/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Delta AirLines: Onward and Upward

AbstractDelta Air Lines business challenges forced the company into bankruptcy. Delta emerged from Chapter 1 ... nsformation Plan to turn the company around. The Transformation Plan set the recovery framework for Delta's open systems of interacting components. This paper examines the task, people, technology, an ... ng components. This paper examines the task, people, technology, and task environment components of Delta. The company's task places emphasis on its people and customers. The company has made signific ...

(15 pages) 172 0 4.5 Aug/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Refugees population and needs

ys back cnn reported live about the condition in the state of kosovo. it said that the owner of the delta air lines was providing food , bathroom and clothing facilities to the refugees ,(all on his o ...

(2 pages) 12 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

"The Persuaders" Report on documentary for marketing class

all about. The film begins by focusing on a new up and coming airline called Song, a sub-siduary of Delta Air Lines. They tried to invent a new culture in an airline. They did a lot of word associatio ...

(6 pages) 21 0 3.0 May/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Delta Airline's Marketing Tools

er loyalty, and serve them faster and in more convenient ways than their competitors do. Therefore, Delta has developed some tools to communicate with their customers as in-flight broadband service an ... materials in digital form, which can be disseminated using the new information technologies.Today, Delta's marketing tools include setting up e-businesses to help sell and promote their products. By ...

(2 pages) 35 1 4.6 Jul/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > E-commerce

Economic Impacts on the Airline Industry

Economic Impacts on the Airline IndustryOver the years we have been able to see how airline travel has changed. From the der ... ave created much of the changes (2007). How has these changes affected the supply and demand in the airline industry? Has this created positive or negative externalities? How has this changed the wage ... this changed the wages for the workers? Have monetary and fiscal policies affected the changes?With airline industry being a luxury to most of its customers the supply and demand shifts as prices chan ...

(7 pages) 59 2 5.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Jet Blue: Change Analysis

0 and has survived competition from major airlines its main competitors being American Airlines and Delta Air Lines. As JetBlue grew and changed, a culture shift occurred. Processes that once were suf ...

(16 pages) 199 0 4.5 Jan/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

Current Market Conditions

y. The United state has nine major airlines; America West, American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and USAir. All nine of the ...

(11 pages) 185 0 3.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Differentiating Between Market Structures Simulation

ction processes will give a firm a competitive advantage in increasing profits.Selected OrganizationDelta Air Lines operates in an oligopoly market structure where the industry is dominated by a small ... ider the reactions of other airlines while making their decisions. Starting a price war could cause Delta to lose revenue and market share to low-cost carriers such as Southwest, so they tend to charg ...

(5 pages) 33 0 0.0 Feb/2011

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management