...INTRODUCTION Business environment is very important and plays significant roles for sustainability of airline business. In the global and modern world, business environment also become more complicated and more challenging to the airlines. It is important for airline manager to know because it will help the airline to plan and prepare for any changes that threatens the survival of airline business. The 21st century comes with so many changes, new technologies invented, circular of income of a country increase with better economy situation, air travel demand increasing very high which are given the airlines benefit to do business. Apparently, the 21st century not only bring benefit, but also bringing new risks for airline business such as fuel price volatility, natural catastrophic that had never been experienced before and others. The risks if not be taken with cares and smart strategies will threaten the sustainability of airlines. This writing try to identify issues arising and new risks that affecting airline business. Identifying significant issues and risks is very crucial for airline management to make planning, scheduling, price setting for flight tickets, demand forecasting, traffic movement, and the most important is managing capacity. Therefore, knowing impact of issues and new risks in airline business is very crucial. Survival of airline business is important for the global economy, airlines play important role as major contribution for Growth Domestic...
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...International Business Environment Name: University: Course Title: Instructor: Date: Executive Summary International business environment changes in the last couple of years have had a significant impact on the sectors of the world economy more so the airline sector, with this in mind the term paper focused on the impact of changes in the international business environment on the airline industry. International business environment is viewed as the most contexts for international business and comprehending how forces in this environment impact the business operations is the difference between business failure and success. To this end, the research established various changes in the business environment that have taken place in political, economic, financial and socio-cultural circles. Political changes especially the Arab spring have had far reaching impact on the airline sector with fall in passenger numbers to these destination as well as the rise in fuel prices negatively impacting the growth of the industry, political instability in other areas as well as laws regulating the airline sector have been on the rise as countries seek to protect local airlines, the economic crisis slowed down the growth of the sector but with the recovery process on track, the airline industry is expected to grow into the foreseeable future, issues such a new taxes for example carbon tax in Europe, the unstable foreign exchange market and inflationary pressures...
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...UNITED AIRLINES SLEPT ANALYSIS Q1: What is meant by the external business environment and what are its main components? External environment refers to the environment that has an indirect influence on the business. The factors are uncontrollable by the business. The external environment of an organization is those factors outside the company that affect the company's ability to function. Some external elements can be manipulated by company marketing, while others require the organization to make adjustments. Some main components of external environment are: Customers Government Economy Competition Public Opinion Growing use of internet Law and Order situation Q2: Show how changes in one of these components have had a significant impact on airlines in recent years? A major change in the airline environment since September 11th has been in airport security, as a result of political and legal pressures. Airlines today have to operate in a much more security conscious environment and this has considerable logistical and cost implications for airlines, including the development of much more security conscious booking and baggage handling procedures, the requirement to use security staff on cross Atlantic routes has also added to costs. Q3: How significant is competition in the external environment? Competition is always important in the external business environment. It is particularly important in the airline business where there are a number...
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...in the air travel industry over the last couple of decades witnessed a revamped approach and new ways in conducting business. Multiple airlines have adopted various ways of branding themselves but the most common approach was adoption of corporate social responsibility. These companies feature more of giving back to the community and participating in activities entirely different from their main line of operation. This paper conducts an empirical and qualitative evaluation of eight major airlines in the air travel industry and their adoption of corporate social responsibility. The paper is mainly structured in two major parts. Broadly stated, the first part is a theoretical perspective whereas the latter part captures the practical evaluation of CSR in eight airlines. Therefore, the first part irons the researcher’s understanding of CSR theory such as the participating stakeholders. In addition, this part captures an overview of CSR in the air travel industry as well as outlining accumulative gains to this trend. The second part covers the broader part of this thesis taking a practical approach. This part includes qualitative analysis, evaluation and review of CSR application programs in eight of the sampled airlines. The chosen airlines where selected by sampling from among three of the largest airline alliances globally. The sampled airlines include British Airways, America Airlines, Qantas, Lufthansa, All Nippon Airways, Air France-KLM, Delta Airlines and Cathay Pacific...
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...Airline Lufthansa Companies Strategic Change and Strategic Challenge for Lufthansa Introduction The biggest airline in Germany- Lufthansa is one of the leading airline companies in the world, but it suffered from the danger of bankruptcy in 1991. However, the flexible strategic change programs made it survive. Thus, the implementation and effects of those programs are obviously attractive and deserve further study. Moreover, current business environment is full of opportunities and challenges, which poses Lufthansa to identify relative challenges and adopt some reaction to respond. Therefore, this report will discuss two parts: one is strategic change programs and the other is current strategic challenges for Lufthansa. In the first part, it will evaluate the strategic change programs which Lufthansa applied and also cover the effects of leadership and politics. The second part of this report will analyse the strategic challenges for Lufthansa based on current and future business environment. I. Strategic changes for Lufthansa Strategy is argued to be a useful tool for an organization to achieve its target in the long term, and its contribution to development of the organization is evident. However, it is impossible to use one strategy to respond the changeable demand due to the dynamic external environment, so the organization should change their strategies to adapt the market. 1. Strategic change program According to Balogun and Hailey (1999)...
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...Southwest Airlines Prepared for: Mr. Balasubramanian Shankar Due date: Monday, 5th October 2015 Submitted by: Jiyeon | CT00000000 | TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2 2. COMPANY BACKGROUND 3 3. PESTEL ANALYSIS 4 3.1 Political 4 3.2 Economic 4 3.3 Social 5 3.4 Technological 5 3.5 Environment 5 3.6 Legal 6 4. PORTER’S FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 7 4.1 Threat of New Entry 7 4.2 Threat of Substitution 7 4.3 Buyer Power 7 4.4 Supplier Power 8 4.5 Competitive Rivalry 9 5. STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATIONS 10 5.1 Managing Technology Advancements 10 5.2 Maintain Cost Advantage 10 5.3 Geographical Expansion 10 5.4 Product Diversification 11 6. CONCLUSION 12 7. REFERENCES 14 1. INTRODUCTION The focus company in this report is Southwest Airlines (SA), a major low cost carrier in the United States (US). The aim of this report is to examine the current market environment and competitive power of Southwest Airlines. In order to have a substantial overview of its environment, two analyses, the PESTEL analysis and Porter’s Five Forces analysis, will be used to evaluate SA. With the findings, strategic recommendations will be made for the problems that the airline is facing or may encounter in the near future. 2. COMPANY BACKGROUND Southwest Airlines is a budget airline established in 1967 by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher and had its first flight in 1971. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, SA is an important airline in the...
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...strategic management: “ How AirAsia can be a leader in the lowest cost carrier in the airplane industry” August 31, 2009catatanraufmenduniaLeave a commentGo to comments 1.0 Introduction “Without a strategy the organization is like a ship without rudder, going around in circles”. (Joel Ross and Michael Kami) Nowadays, the competition among airplane industries is very tough. According to Daniel Chan (2000), with just about two years to go to the turn millennium, air wars over Asia are hotting up, with some of the world’s biggest airlines engaged in intense over Asian skies[1]. Each Of Airplanes Company in the world trying to conduct some strategies to compete with another competitor in their industry. A lot of airplane companies come out with different strategies to make their company better than their competitors. To compete with their competitor in the business environment, a company needs to make a strategy to achieve their long terms objective and can be successful for doing their business. Moreover, to be successful in their long terms objective and their business, company need to identify their strategic management, because with good strategic management company can be achieving their vision and mission to achieve the successfulness in their business. Regarding this issues, the strategic management becomes important due to the following reason such as globalization to survival their business, and than e-commerce become the critical success to the company nowadays. The two following...
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...There has been a global crisis in the Airline industry in recent times. This is attributed to the hiking in oil prices, large capital requirements (Capital assets) and stiff global competition within the airline industry, such as, the Gulf airline. The effect of the rising dollar has been significantly contributed to the hiking ticket prices of the Australian airline sector. The main Australian airlines have been impacted by the global crisis. This specific article in the Financial Times Review(Clarke & Smith, 2011), discusses that strategically Qantas was facing hard times due to the environment of the global financial crisis and it had embarked on an implementation plan to decrease internal and external flights to counter the effect of hiking oil prices and operational cost. However, in the United Arab Emirates, has been experienced growth and this has a direct concern to the threat of competition to Qantas (Vesperman, Wald & Gleich 2008, pp. 388-394). All these factors above are a contributed force to Qantas to remain competitive. This paper seeks To address the approaches that should be engaged by Qantas that are necessary to ensure ongoing competitive advantages for the future of the airline industry within this hypercompetitive environment. 2. Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Strategic management is a continuous process that involves reviewing and directing the activities of a business and the environment threats and opportunities within which...
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...Introduction: Porter Airlines has managed to find success where many small carrier airlines have not. The company has survived predator competition from Air Canada to become a recognized brand in South Eastern Canada for the time-sensitive business traveller segment. The company has developed a loyal customer base and continues to capitalize on its strengths which include it location, ownership of the Billy Bishop Airport. Despite its success the company is currently focused on expanding its operational efforts both nationally and cross-border to the US and must consider a variety of options which can achieve this. Situational Analysis: External Environment: PESTEL: Political: Porter operates largely within Canada. Its home terminal is located in Toronto so it largely affected by the political environment in Canada, at large, but more specifically by the political environment in Ontario. The local and national political environment in Canada is relatively stable as there are no significant unrests in the country to impact the operations of the Porter Airlines. Economic: The economic environment in Canada has also been stable in recent years. Inflation rates are currently decreasing and lower than the GDP growth rate of 2.63% . The stabilization of oil prices will lead to savings for companies since fuel costs are a major expense for most airlines. Tax policies are favourable for Canadian corporations. However, the Canadian dollar has been experiencing recent instability...
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...European Journal of Business and Management ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol.5, No.30, 2013 www.iiste.org Key Success Factors in Airlines: Overcoming the Challenges Marcella Riwo-Abudho1, Lily W. Njanja1 & Isaac Ochieng2 1 2 School of Business, Kabarak University Department of Mathematics and Business Studies, Laikipia University College *Corresponding author address: P.O. Box 20157 Kabarak University Nakuru, Kenya. e-mail: mabudho@gmail.com, Tel: 0724690140 Abstract The increased interconnectivity within the global airline markets has marked the airline with dynamism from both its external environment and internal operations. This paper reviews how the highly sensitive industry is faced by the challenge of product innovation by suppliers, fragile reputation powerful customers, intense competition from strategic alliances & bankruptcy protection and increased costs of labour, fuel and security measures. The review further identifies the Key Success Factors (KSFs) in the global airline industry in relation to the challenges that carriers face. These strategic factors include structure, culture, strategic alliances, planning and forecasting, technology, marketing and branding and outsourcing. 1. Introduction The global airline industry operates in service industry complexities within a highly turbulent environment. Keynes (2009) states how the sector has gone through a drastic change on both the supply and the demand side...
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...Nielsen - Gary Chuyu Fang Executive summary This report strategically analyses the Strategy Business Unit (SBU), passenger transfer service, for Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited. The strategic analysis contains investigation of certain key business areas of Virgin Atlantic, such as: defining whom the Virgin Atlantic customer is; understanding of the external environment issues of the airline industry; competitor analysis, and analysis of the Human Resources within the organization. Through the analysis of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited, some issues for the company were uncovered. Especially two main issues should be considered as potential problems for Virgin Atlantic’s business unit and so action needs to be taken within these areas: 1. Lacking economy of scale (size of the company). 2. Increasing environmental awareness among customers. 1. Virgin Atlantic lacks economy of scale because of the size of the company and limited routes available. To be able to compete effectively and gain greater profits through economy of scale, Virgin Atlantic has to expand by opening new routes. The implementation of this will require strategic financial planning and adjustment of the company structure. It is likely that this process will take several years; however, this change is necessary to increase Virgin Atlantic’s competitiveness. 2. With the increased concern about the environment among customers, bio-fuel has been tested by Boeing for a few years in order to lower carbon emission...
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...Domestic Environment Delta Air line is an international airline Company that provides schedule air transportation to several places throughout the whole world. The company is based in the United State of America, serving as its domestic market, since establishment and has been ranked the largest airline in the US in regard to the total number of destinations or places it serves. The Airline industry, in which Delta Air Lines serves, is one of key sectors for the economic growth of a country. The industry offers job opportunities to millions of peoples and generating nearly half of most revenue. According to Air Transport Association, 2009 the industry in USA contributes nearly 5 percent of overall Gross Domestic Product , generates more than half a trillion in annual returns and offers employment to more than ten million people. The industry worldwide is predominantly made up of the most promising players, Delta inclusive, such as Southwest, FedEx, US airways, Qatar Airlines, South Africa Airways, Virgin Atlantic, among others. These players are categorized into three depending on their revenues as; major airlines, the national airlines and regional airlines (Gale, 2005). Delta Air Line originally was operational in the agriculture industry in 1942 was it was founded as the world first aerial crop dusting corporation before venturing into the commercial airline industry. With journey coupled with continuous failures and successes, the company has grown to the level it has...
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...Report about Airline Industry 1. Introduction Airline is a large and growing industry. It facilitates economic growth, world trade, international investment and tourism therefore it is a central industry in Canada. Airlines are companies that provide air transport services for passengers and freights. Airlines lease or own their aircrafts with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit. Airline services can be categorized as being intercontinental, domestic, regional, or international. Airline industry in Canada has two major carrier families---Air Canada and Canadian Airlines International Ltd. Both major carriers are affiliated through ownership with regional or specialized local carriers. While Air Canada and Canadian carry passengers and cargo on scheduled and charter flights domestically and internationally, their affiliates generally serve the different regions of the country. The airline industry makes a significant contribution to the Canadian economy. In 2014, for example, the industry generated $7.6 billion in operating revenues and employed 53,000 people. Moreover, the airlines carried 32 million passengers on domestic and international flights. 2.PESTE analysis 2.1 Political The airline industry is very susceptible to changes in the political environment. Canadian political environment is stable and airline industry operates in a highly regulated political environment where passengers’...
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...As an oligopolist industry, airline industry is far from free of crisis that will affect the airline industry’s way in approaching the business in order to sustain their potential ability in the industry. Any slump in economics, political and etcetera will massively contribute to the downturn of certain airliners and in more serious cases, rendering the business and eventually might lead to bankruptcy. Malaysian Airlines have had a rough time in some years regarding their financial stability, and such crisis forces the airliner to change their ways in approaching the business in a way that will rescue them into staying in the industry. Generally, Malaysia Airline will be taken as the main reference on each and every case appeared on this paper One of the crises that came along to strike the airline industry is regarding the increment of the global fuel price. Early in 2008, Malaysian Airlines got struck and highly affected by the global phenomenon, thus marking the year as the toughest year for the airliner. The fluctuations of fuel price which ended up in mass increment stunned the airliner and it took them up to 9 months long before resolving the uncertainties of the company’s capability in enduring such crisis. The jet fuel increment was reportedly climbed up to USD$182 per barrel. This economic crisis had highly influenced the way Malaysian Airlines approach in managing their financial sources in a more positive way. Malaysian Airlines had came back strong after the...
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...Company Analysis Project – Final Paper – Southwest Airlines Charles M Mohr MBA 6008 – Global Economic Environment Capella University Doctor Halstead February 19, 2016 Abstract The aircraft carrier business contends in an oligopoly showcase. This implies just a few of airline companies control the significant bit of the business. Southwest Airlines is one of these organizations. They make up 16.6% of the business sector, second only to Delta. The motivation behind this paper is to talk about the microeconomic and macroeconomic situations that Southwest Airlines faces every day. The Airline Deregulation Act that was passed in 1978 was a huge impact on the aviation industry. There are administrative contemplations on financial choices, for example, group clamor and air quality. Southwest Airlines has moral (ethical) contemplations that should be tended to at whatever time financial choices are made. This paper additionally touches on the monetary hypotheses and models, including the Bertrand Model that Southwest Airlines ought to audit and consider for future accomplishment of the organization. Southwest Airlines must take after the Sustainability Accounting Standard for Airlines for all their bookkeeping purposes. Table of Contents Abstract 2 Microeconomic Environment 5 Macroeconomic Environment 8 Economic Implications 10 Regulatory Considerations on Economic Decisions 11 Ethical Considerations on Economic Decisions 13 Economic Theories and Models 14 ...
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