...Ryanair Strategic Analysis Introduction Ryanair is one of the biggest airlines of Europe that offers the lowest fares, and has set up 729 courses from 32 bases. It is the largest airline globally with regard to passengers internationally, but not in terms of profits. A significant growth has continued since its inception Ryanair, which was approved by the European aviation industry liberalization in 1997 for him. The Stansted Airport in London his main base but the headquarters of the company are located in Ireland at Dublin Airport. In the year 2009, The Michael O'Leary leader of the body began to provide technology for mobile phones in their plane. This allows passengers to use their phones on airplanes, but at higher cost. Ryanair has tried to buy Aer Lingus twice, in 2006 and 2008, but failed both times. This paper discusses the Ryanair's sustainability strategy and how it impacted the company in the near-term future. Ryan air's Current Strategy The purpose of Ryan Air is to establish itself as the leading low-fare airline in Europe, willing to travel by improving and strengthening the offers by starting its low fares services. Ryanair aims to offer preferential tariffs to develop expanded traffic, while at the same time maintaining the relentless focus on cost containment and operational efficiency. Ryanair offers cornerstone of a sense, therefore, the elimination of the smallest of all obligations of the host of tourist services to Ryanair, despite the tariff...
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...frills air travel servicing many of the leading city destinations in the UK and across Europe, including Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Prague. * They offer a high quality service at competitive prices and offer a number of features including ticketless travel, internet booking and assisted travel services. * They have a highly distinctive livery on their fleet of aircraft making them easily recognisable and distinguishing them from their competitors. * They have a user friendly website which fully discloses the price breakdown of the passengers planned travel. Offering a full breakdown of the price plan prevents any hidden charges when the customer confirms there booking. * EasyJet offers an online promotion alert which is e-mailed to existing customers and contact on the company’s database. * Recognised as a leading brand name in the UK travel industry. * As a market leader in an industry widely seen as a leading contributor to the green house effect and global warming, EasyJet actively embrace there environmental responsibilities and continue to keep these factors as a keep priority when developing their future strategies. * EasyJet operate a fast and efficient service with an average turnaround time of 30 minutes or below. This enables them to maintain a reliable and hassle free service to their passengers. Weaknesses: * Domestic air travel is an extremely competitive industry with EasyJet’s main competitors being Jet2, BMI Baby, Ryan Air plus...
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...Ryan Knight BCOM 314R 9/27/2014 Marisa Michaels BIQ Needs Assessment Intro I write to you today to inform you of the most crucial issues that Lockheed Martin will be facing this upcoming year. I will inform you with the relevance and significance of these issues. I will also be identifying the key stakeholders that will be affected by these issues. These issues are intended to inform you ahead of time, so the necessary adjustments can be performed accordingly. Issues: Past Ending Production of specific Fighter Jets Lockheed has been producing numerous amounts of different fighter jets for the United States. A MarketLine SWOT Analysis stated that "The sequestration of appropriations in 2013 imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Budget Act) began in March 2013. The budget calls for the termination of a few programs which include C-17 Airlifter, F-22 stealth fighter, Future Combat Systems, Multiple Kill Vehicle, Kinetic Energy Interceptor, Airborne Laser, Combat search and rescue helicopter, and Presidential helicopter"(SWOT,2014). The termination of those...
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...Word count Core text: 9706 Total: 7932 Table of content Preface 5 1. Summary of Ryanair 6 2. Problem statement 7 3. Corporate Strategy 8 3.1 Strategic development 8 3.1.1 Intended Strategy 8 3.1.2 Emergent Strategy 8 3.1.3 Strategic Lenses 8 4. Organizational Environment 9 4.1 PESTEL Framework 9 4.2 The Five Forces framework 12 5.2.1 The threat of entry 12 5.2.2 The threat of substitutes 12 5.2.3 The power of buyers 12 5.2.4 The power of suppliers 12 5.2.5 Competitive rivalry 13 5. Strategic capability 14 5.1 DuPont Analysis 14 5.2 Robustness 16 6. Competitive Strategy 18 7. Strategic Purpose 20 8. Business Economic Analysis 23 8.1 Liquidity 23 8.2 Solvability 23 8.3 Profitability 24 8.4 Efficiency 24 9. SWOT analysis 25 9.1 SWOT of Ryanair 25 9.1.1 Strengths 26 9.1.2 Weakness 26 9.1.3 Opportunities 26 9.1.3 Threats 26 10. TOWS Analysis 27 11. Alternative courses of action 28 12. Decision and Reasoning 29 9.1 Top 2 Alternatives 29 13. Implementation 30 Literature 31 Figure list 33 Preface The following report is written on behalf of the module Strategic Management, by students of Leisure Management. The case to write this report is “Ryanair” and the strategies that were used to become the biggest airline of the world. Ryanair is the first low-fare airline company of its kind and their unique strategy make it possible for costumers to fly for the lowest prices. The aim of this...
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...aim of this report is to analyze the problems that SAS faced as well as identify the solution approaches that had been used by the company, especially the vertical integration. In order to analyze those problems, the report will apply SWOT analysis, PESTEL analysis and Five Porter Factors analysis. 2.0 Analysis 2.1 Analysis SWOT is stand for Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats. According to Robert (2004), SWOT analysis aims to identify as well as analyze internal strengths and weaknesses of a company. It also analyzes opportunities and threats that the environment has on a corporation. SWOT analysis can help companies to enhance their strengths and opportunities as well as minimize their weaknesses. Due to Nadine and Anne (2007), SWOT is a useful tool for decision making. In addition, by applying SWOT, company is able to avoid the unworkable constellations of threat and weakness. However, as SWOT analysis result is based on analysts, lack of skills and experiences can lead to bad analysis. It can result in wrong decision making or wrong business strategies. Base on the SWOT analysis (Appendix 6.1), the strength of SAS includes its early establishment in 1946. This earlier establishment led to its numerous first in early year of air-travel such as pioneered the...
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...Ryanair Strategic Analysis And Recommendations For The Future Ryanair is the first budget airline in Europe. Based on the case study of Ryanair by Eleanor O’Higgins, a role of a management consultant is assumed to conduct a strategic analysis on the company. The report consists of the initial Environment Analysis conducted on Ryanair prior to the detailed strategic analysis that will be conducted in the future in order to provide the company with strategic recommendations for the future. The Environmental Analysis conducted consists of both an extensive analysis on the external environment and the internal environment. The external environment analysis is conducted in order to identify the nature of the environment Ryanair operates in and its impact on the strategic situation of the company. Through PESTEL, External factor and Industry analysis conducted, rejection of Aerlingus offer and rules and regulations imposed by governments etc. are recognized as the critical external environmental factor affecting Ryanair’s strategy. An analysis of the internal environment through Value Chain model and SWOT analysis reveals the key issues hindering the strategic success of the firm; poor customer service and human resource problems. While this initial environmental analysis is used to assist the strategic analysis that is to be conducted on Ryanair, the importance of taking necessary actions regarding the critical issues is highlighted, CONTENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 CONTENT 2 1INTRODUCTION...
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...serve three cities in Texas as Air Southwest on March 15, 1967, by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. It is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas, with its largest focus city at Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport. It is the largest airline in the United States by number of passengers carried domestically per year and (as of December 31, 2007) also the largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried. As of July 12, 2008, Southwest operates approximately 3,500 flights daily. Indian Aviation: Air Deccan, the first low cost airline of India was founded by Captain G. R. Gopinath and its first flight was launched on 23 August 2003 from Bangalore to Hubli. Air Deccan is a business unit of Deccan Aviation, India’s largest private helicopter charter company, which pioneered helicopter tourism in India. Air Deccan is India’s first low cost, no frill airline, which was launched on strength of simple dream that every Indian to fly atleast once in his/her lifetime. In October 2007, Air Deccan as a planned makeover after the acquisition was renamed as Deccan with is tagline "The Choice is Simple" based on its previous famous tag line 'Simplifly'. The old logo of hands has been replaced by the Kingfisher logo and the font of Kingfisher is also being used. Strategy for Success Southwest Airline: As the first commercial U.S. airline to compete on price, Southwest Airlines has brought many innovations to air travel since its first Boeing...
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...BIRD’S EYE VIEW SWOT Analysis of Ryanair SWOT TEAM Air Scoop launches a new range of articles called ‘SWOT Team’. Each month, we will publish a SWOT analysis of an European low-cost carrier. In this issue, we start with a global SWOT of the market. The no-frills carriers have created new markets, and opened up air travel. A greater proportion of their passengers are people who previously were using other modes of transport for travel, while a certain proportion are from traditional carriers. Relying as they do on linking region to region and by-passing ex¬pensive big-city hubs, lowcost carriers have caused rise in local employment. There is parallel growth in tourism; a rise in property investment and new businesses credited to good, cheap logistic connections. One of the strongest characteristics of the no-frills business model is the ability to adapt rapidly to circumstances. Cost savings of the no-frills business was achieved by effectively supplying a single standard service on all routes and improving both labor and aircraft productivity. Ryanair’s Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary’s, once claimed that “Low-cost airlines are the new Europe». This seems to have been amply proved by the tremendous impact LCC have had on Europe. Ryanair and easyJet are the leading low cost players owning around 50% of the share in the European LCC market. Ryanair is an Irish airline headquartered in Dublin. Its biggest operational base, however, is at London Stansted Airport. It is Europe’s...
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...BIRD’S EYE VIEW SWOT TEAM SWOT Analysis of Ryanair Air Scoop launches a new range of articles called ‘SWOT Team’. Each month, we will publish a SWOT analysis of an European low-cost carrier. In this issue, we start with a global SWOT of the market. The no-frills carriers have created new markets, and ope-ned up air travel. A greater proportion of their passengers are people who previously were using other modes of transport for travel, while a certain proportion are from traditional carriers. Relying as they do on linking region to region and by-passing ex¬pensive big-city hubs, low-cost carriers have caused rise in local employment. There is parallel growth in tourism; a rise in property investment and new businesses credited to good, cheap logistic con-nections. One of the strongest characteristics of the no-frills busi-ness model is the ability to adapt rapidly to circumstances. Cost savings of the no-frills business was achieved by ef-fectively supplying a single standard service on all routes and improving both labor and aircraft productivity. Ryanair’s Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary’s, once claimed that “Low-cost airlines are the new Europe». This seems to have been amply proved by the tremendous im-pact LCC have had on Europe. Ryanair and easyJet are the leading low cost players ow-ning around 50% of the share in the European LCC mar-ket. Ryanair is an Irish airline headquartered in Dublin. Its biggest operational base, however, is at London Stansted...
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...international joint ventures conducted by one of the world best low cost airlines, Air Asia, through their operation years. In particular, Air Asia Indonesia, Thailand, Expedia and Air Asia Japan are being chosen to probe into This research put priority on the factors that turn Air Asia Indonesia, Expedia and Air Asia Thailand into a success throughout their operational year. The Successful International Joint Ventures of Air Asia have gained themselves the benefits from acquainting the right market orientations, in which they have secured a great amount of customers respectively. This leads Air Asia Indonesia and Air Asia Expedia to gain a massive profit and become the dominant airline being in their respective nations. Besides, the commitment is also one of the main contributing factors to the success of Air Asia IJV as well as Economy conditions of host countries had been a major factor to success in IJV. In depth analysis of local GDP of Thailand had granted Thai Air Asia to achieve their business objectives. Throughout the research, it shows that Air Asia Expedia and Thai Air Asia and Indonesia Air Asia have spared no efforts in order to succeed in the aviation industry. Conversely, this research also identified a failed IJV in Air Asia operation with Japan. The main reason behind this failed IJV was usage difficulties found in online booking website of Air Asia. These factors have led to Air Asia Japan to suffer losses throughout their operation. Moreover, misunderstanding...
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...its direction & purview to achieve advantage over rivals by adapting with available resources & build competency we need to first look into the industry level analysis, profitability potential & competitive dynamics and then assess its launch strategy. PORTERS FIVE FORCES * COMPETITORS : * Deregulation-increased rivalry, Competition for marginal customers * Strategic Alliances eg - Aer Lingus & BA * Comfort & premium services to Business Class * Increased use of online ticketing Ryanair’s Perspective: Intense & increasing competition (Aggressive) * ENTRY BARRIER : * Rise of Charter flights in Europe * European Deregulation-New Competitors; Pricing, routing, pooling abolished * Huge financing to enter may cause high entry barrier for new entrants * High maintenance costs & personnel costs * Low/unstable prices & profitability Ryanair’s Perspective: Moderate threat of entry * SUBSTITUTE : * Accessibility: Other cheaper form of transports eg-fast rail & land travel * Charter flights for Holiday goers * Flights bundling ancillary services such as lodging along with cheap fares Ryanair’s Perspective: Low threat from Substitutes * BUYER POWER : * Increased customer base for air travel due to increased competition leading to low prices * Removal of travel agents & online ticket reservation systems * spectrum of ticket prices with varying...
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...Evaluation of air asias response to tourism Executive summary Air Asia, the market leader of low cost carriers in Asia, shown on the good record of bringing about innovative idea into the industry. The industry itself, especially in the Asian region, is observing a higher growth rate of passenger and profitability. The report examines the organization’s key business structure and operation, products and provides summary analysis of its key revenue lines and strategy. The analysis looks at the impact of external and internal factors on the organization, and evaluate it responses. Essentially SWOT and PESTLE analysis provide a simple framework through which strategic options can be identified in which Air Asia operate. The SWOT process will start by examining the strengths of the Air Asia of today. One of the most dominant strengths possessed by Air Asia is the adding of new Airbus A320 aircraft to its fleet. Airbus A320 gives Air Asia the largest, youngest and most modern fleet in the region. Another strength of Air Asia is the upgrading of the online booking system, in which will offer the ability to passenger to check in online and printing out boarding passes. An opportunity available to Air Asia is fastest growing market in China and India. Both countries give a huge opportunity for Air Asia to expand its business in the region. In the threat part of the analysis is concerned with identifying parts of the Air Asia that might affect its business performance. In recent years...
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...analyses (PESTEL)…3 Ryanair’s internal strategic capabilities (SWOT)……...4 Ryanair’s strategic choice (Porter’s five forces)………5 VRIO framework……………………………………………..5 Rumelt’s criteria……………………………………………..6 Ryanair’s implementation of low cost strategy………..6 Recommendations………………………………………….6 Conclusion…………………………………………………...7 Reference List……………………………………………….7 Appendix………………………………....…………………..8 12.1 Presentation’s slides…………………………………8 Word count 1,744 (excluding reference list and appendix) 2 Besmir Lika 1.0 Introduction Strategic Management Individual Report Richard Jump The notion of underlying the concept of generic strategies is that competitive advantage is at the heart of any strategy, and achieving competitive advantage requires a firm to make a choice, if a firm is to attain competitive advantage, it must make a choice about the type of competitive advantage it seeks to attain and the scope within which it will attain it (Porter, 2004). The purpose of this report is to assess the key strategies chosen by Ryanair within cost leadership and that were likely to generate competitive advantages to the organisation. Furthermore, this paper will analyse the Ryanair’s decision to become a low cost airline through Porter’s five forces. It will help to understand the industry attractiveness and competitive forces. PEST analyses will be directed in order to analyse the business environment where Ryanair operates. SWOT analyses will be piloted to diagnose the strategic capabilities...
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...------------------------------------------------- Ryanair: Strategic Analysis ------------------------------------------------- Ryanair: Strategic Analysis Principles of Marketing and Management Principles of Marketing and Management Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Issues and Outlook Profile 3. External Analysis 4. Internal Analysis 5. Strategy and Implications from Analysis 6. Action Plan Executive Summary Ryanair is a low-cost Irish airline operating to 178 destinations within the European Union. It’s Chief Executive Officer, Michael O’Leary reported revenues of €3.629 Billion for the fiscal year of 2011, bringing profits of €374.6 Million. As can be seen in the Issues and Outlook Profile, there are a number of issues confronting the firm. Its controversial advertising, employee relations, susceptibility to oil prices and worldwide conflict, and its dependency on its CEO, are all areas which the firm needs to address. The success of the firm has been credited to the fact the company offer the bare minimum services for the cheapest price, negotiate cheap and rewarding contracts with mainly secondary airports, utilise a modern and thus efficient fleet of 291 aircraft, and charge for any additional services which the customer might require. Despite the success of the firm to date there are several areas in which it can improve. Firstly, by continuing its pursuit to purchase Aer Lingus the firm could become one of the largest...
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...Ming Lee – S3301727 Table of Content Executive Summary 3 Background Information 4 SWOT Analysis 5 PESTEL Framework Analysis 6 Porter’s Five Forces Analysis 9 Qantas’ Strategic Capabilities 12 VRIN Model 14 Qantas’ Value Chain 16 Qantas’ Generic Strategies 17 Conclusion 19 Reference List 20 Executive Summary This report is going to provide a fundamental analysis inboth external and internal factors that influence Qantas Airway in competing in the aviation industry. The PESTEL framework is applied to identify how issues in the political, economic, social,technological, environmental and legal environment may affect the industry within which Qantas operates. Moreover, Porter’s five forces model also helps identify the attractiveness of the airline and aviation industry related to five competitive forces: the threat of entry, the threat of substitutes, the power of buyers, the power of suppliers and the intensity of rivalry among competitors in the existing industry (Johnson, Whittington & Scholes 2011). The external analysis is essential to determine Qantas’ opportunities and threats. Whereas the internal analysis includes understanding Qantas’ resources and competences that are likely to provide sustainable competitive advantage, identifying Qantas’ competitive position using VRIN model (value, rarity, inimitability and non-substitutability), examining Qantas value chain analysis by evaluating the primary and support activities that the company performs and analysing...
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