Company Profile •Aer Lingus is the national airline of Ireland. It is headquartered at Dublin Airport, Ireland. •The airline operates 43 aircraft and carries on average 10 million passengers per annum. •The airline's primary mission is to connect Ireland with the world and the world to Ireland by offering its customers the best product in the Irish airline market at a competitive price. The airline’s primary markets are Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. The Irish people
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JetBlue Hits Turbulence Case Study Question I. What types of information systems and business functions are described in this case? The information system described in this case is the Transaction Processing System (TPS) which is used to perform and record the day-to-day business transactions including reservations, paperless ticketing and baggage handling. JetBlue attempted to standardize its IT processes by utilizing a single vendor for its technological framework for all facets of its
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AirAsia Low Cost Leadership Analysis: It was by 2009, that AirAsia was established as the most-successful low cost airline in Asia, but what makes AirAsia successful? We refer to why the unit costs are different between enterprises in the same sector, as in this case would be the airline industry, when their basic cost factors (such as technology, product design, productive process, capabilities) are very similar, if not the same. This can be explained by using drivers of cost advantage:
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travel agent would find specific flight to match these customer’s needs. For Skyward, using travel agent would make the ticket reservation process more efficient, which resulting in reduce the staff workload. And also using travel agents can let Skyward to better manager the availabilities for the seat and flights. 3) How competitive is the market? Canadian North Airline: * Provide Boeing 737 jet service in northern Canada * Cash flow problem—cut marginal service, the routes in Manitoba
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Case Study BAC 7114 The Ethics of Bankruptcy: Jetsgo Corporation Case 2: The Ethics of Bankruptcy: Jetsgo Corporation The discount airline Jetsgo Corporation began operations in June 2002. Within two-and-half years it grew to become Canada's third-largest airline, moving approximately 17,000 passengers per day on its fleet of 29 airplanes, 15 of which were company-owned Fokker F100s. With 1,200 employees, the company serviced 20 locations in Canada, a dozen in the Caribbean, and 10 in the
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business can grow, it needs to have its costs under control. It must be cost-efficient and profitable, and it must create value. Costs that do not add value must be contained, reduced and even eliminated. It means that AirAsia can be growing in the airline business if they can control their cost. The cost that they have to running there must be efficient and reliable. Everything that can make inefficiencies must be reduced and possibly to eliminate. AirAsia can be possibly competing with other airplane
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(established in 1984) is the second largest and the third largest airline in the UK and Europe respectively (Virgin Atlantic, 2014). Its headquarters is based in Crawley, near Gatwick Airport in London, in the UK. Its route network includes destinations in the US, Africa, India, Far East and the Caribbean (Virgin Atlantic, 2014). The carrier's main competitors are British Airways, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific and South African Airlines (Virgin Atlantic, 2014). Virgin Atlantic’s core tangible service
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Southwest Airlines Kaushal Desai Vaishali Patel Debra Quach Introduction Although the airline industry is no longer experiencing the rapid growth it exhibited before 1990; commercial air travel in the U.S. remains the preferred method of transportation for a majority of Americans due to cost-effectiveness and timesaving characteristics. From 1980 to 1990 the number of passengers traveling by air increased by approximately 72%, in contrast, in the 1990-1998 period, the airline industry only
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AirAsia flies 20 million passengers in five years m-Travel.com Asia’s low fare airline AirAsia has surpassed its 20 millionth passenger mark in June this year. AirAsia, established in December 2001, has expanded from a two-aircraft operation to a fleet of 45, serving a regional network spanning 10 countries covering Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Macau, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore and Brunei. With the recent confirmation of 40 Airbus order, AirAsia’s total order now stands
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figured out that this hotel’s yield-management system is in top working order. These three guests—all staying on the same night in similar rooms—have received different rates. You might be thinking that those rates are based on their differing needs and willingness to pay. You might also conclude that some logical factor differentiates those guests, something like flexibility in arrival dates or differences in when they booked their reservations. 94 Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration
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