Skybus Airlines From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Not to be confused with other uses of the name "Skybus". Skybus Airlines | | IATA SX | ICAO SKB | Callsign SKYBUS | | Founded | 2004 | Commenced operations | May 22, 2007 | Ceased operations | April 5, 2008 | Hubs | Port Columbus International Airport | Secondary hubs | Piedmont Triad International Airport | Fleet size | 12 (63 firm orders at time of shutdown) | Destinations | 17 | Company
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‘no-frills’ airline is defined as one “That uses charter and/or scheduled flights to offer bargain-basement fares. Budget airlines usually land at and take-off from secondary airports, do not provide in-flight meals or refreshments, and may not even offer numbered seat allocation. Their ticket prices are fixed and non-refundable in case of a cancellation or no-show”. AirAsia is one of the fastest growing airline companies in the world, with a reputation as a low-cost, ‘no frills’ airline. It was originally
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Unfavorable | Internal | Strengths -High capacity usage -Named the best low cost airline leader for the last three consecutive years -Diversity in upper management -Revenues increase by 8 percent to 94 billion in fiscal year 2003 -Net income increased 83 percent to $402 million in fiscal year 2003 -Dominates the short haul segment of airline industry -Fourth largest domestic airline -In 2003 Southwest posted a profit for the 31st consecutive year | Weaknesses
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Air Asia is the second Malaysian national airline which provides a totally different types of service called low cost no frills. Their vision is to provide affordable price to all worldwide travellers with minimum in-flight service.thier price is slightly lower than to any other full service airlines. Before 2001 Air Asia fails to capture market or attract new customer due to its poor operation against the full fledge service given by Malaysian airlines which was supported by Malaysian government
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. All rights reserved 0268-3962/07 JIT016 palgrave-journals.com/jit Teaching case Modernization of passenger reservation system: Indian Railways’ dilemma Shirish C Srivastava1, Sharat S Mathur2, Thompson SH Teo1 1 School of Business, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Centre for Railway Information Systems, Indian Railways, New Delhi, India 2 Correspondence: SC Srivastava, School of Business, National University of Singapore, 1 Business
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reasons for the success of JetBlue, a three-year-old, low-cost airline, operating in the USA. Trends in the U.S. Airline Industry and their Impact on Company’s Strategy Since 2001, the US airline industry has faced an unprecedented set of challenges. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the airline industry reported tremendous losses and several of the largest US airlines went into bankruptcy. To recover from this situation and try
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other airlines cancelled their flights in preparation for the storm, yet JetBlue remained as to stay in accordance with their “at all cost” policy, which proved to costly but JetBlue’s customers surely find that a win in the plus section for those who favor that policy. Technology became the issue because when it was time to locate luggage, rebook, and compensate passengers for their troubles; JetBlue’s systems proved that it could not handle the large capacity of calls to their reservations system
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Human Resources Management This paper will examine human resource strategies, policies and practices and how they relate to the JetBlue Airways case: Starting from Scratch, by Jody Hoffer Gittell and Charles O’Reilly, 2001. We will identify national equal employment opportunity laws that impact JetBlue's hiring practices. We will take a look at their internal and external recruitment methods, personnel selection process’, and their use of the 360-degree feedback evaluation as a performance appraisal
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Delta airline has a long history whose roots begin at the year 1924.This airline has grown to become one of the largest airlines serving the United States of America and also majority of the world through its international routes. The aim of this paper is to see the history of the airline together with its financial position with concentration on the various strategies the company has implemented to reach where it is right now. The paper will also include various suggestions to the airline to help
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Marriott International implemented its Group Pricing Optimizer (GPO), a group pricing sys- tem that helps its sales force price hotel rooms for group customers. The system uses price-elasticity models for each statistically derived market segment to recommend an optimal rate and negotiating range. To assist the sales manager during the negotiations, GPO also displays additional data, including avail- ability of sleeping-room inventory, potential displace- ment of more valuable business, probability
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