way that easyJet was run. EasyJet is a London-based low cost airline and he, decided to further explore the mechanics and intricacies of the airline operations first hand. It has been his childhood dream to run an airline someday. So, after spending two days at easyJet headquarters in Luton airport, talking to staff and passengers and learning first hand how the airline operates, he had a vision and where he believed that a low cost airline would be accepted and can be operated successfully in the
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Southwest Airlines 3 1.1 Overview 3 1.1.1 History 3 1.1.2 Southwest Airlines’ offerings 4 1.2 Reasons for choosing Southwest Airlines as a case study on HR practices 5 2 Literature review 5 2.1 HR strategies 5 2.2 Training and development 7 2.3 Compensation 8 2.3.1 Financial compensation 8 2.3.2 Non-financial compensation 10 3 Human resource practices in Southwest Airlines 11 3.1 Human resource strategies in Southwest Airlines 11 3.1.1 Southwest Airlines Strategies
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Guevarra Labor Laws and Unions American Airlines Background American Airlines (AA) history goes back to 1926 when a young aviator named Charles A. Lindberg started air routes to transport mail between St. Louis to Chicago. Lindberg seek the help of other aviators and expanded to other types of types of services such as transport of foods. Later on under the name of American Airways, Lindberg acquired and organized other small airlines. The small airlines were mostly independent carries and they
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1.0 Introduction AirAsia Group, a well-known low-cost airline around the Asia, which ownsby a parent company name “Tune Group”. This company was actually founded by “DRB-Hicom”, which is a company own by Malaysia’s government back in 20th December 1993 and started their operations on 18th November 1996. Unfortunately, the company’s performance not doing very well for few years until it was 2nd December 2001, the day that this airline taken over by Tony Fernandes, the CEO of Air Asia Group. Since
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strength that Southwest Airlines has is its financial stability. As known in the US airline industry, Southwest is one of those airlines who are consistently earning profits despite the problems the industry is facing. With such stability, the corporation is able to make decisions and adjust policies, which other heavily burdened airlines may not be able to imitate. Having a low amount of cost in their operations is one of the contributing factors in Southwest Airlines’ financial success. Such
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‘Logistikas’ who were responsible for financial management and distribution of supplies. The Oxford English dictionary defines logistics as: “The branch of military science having to do with procuring, maintaining and transporting material, personnel and facilities.”The American Council of Logistics Management defines logistics as “the process of planning, implementing and controlling the efficient and effective flow, and storage of goods, services and related information from the point of origin
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Air Canada is Canada’s largest domestic, U.S transborder and international airline and largest provider in Canadian market. Air Canada was the world’s 15th largest commercial airlines as of 2011. The reason which made Air Canada reach this position is that it is able to provide a wider range of services to meet its customer’s preferences. This enabled Air Canada to not only reduce the overall cost of serving its customers, but also serve
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Classic Airlines and Marketing Classic Airlines is known as the world’s fifth largest airlines, commands a fleet of more than 375 jets that serve 240 cities with more than 2,300 daily flights. In the 25 years since its inception, Classic has grown substantially with 32,000 employees. As profitable as it is, Classic like any other airlines is no stranger to the challenges as travel industry continuing to face challenging times. Consumers budgets are tight and cutting back on unnecessary expenses
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000 employees. Delta was founded in the 1920’s as the first commercial agricultural fleet; present day the company services commercial flights in over 350 destinations on 6 continents. The company’s merger with Northwest in 2008 created an international airline with locations in every region of the world. In 2009, Delta celebrated 80 years of passenger service and became the only airline to offer nonstop flights between Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia. Since 2001, Delta has had many financial difficulties
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Master’s thesis M.Sc. in EU Business & Law An analysis of the European low fare airline industry - with focus on Ryanair Student: Thomas C. Sørensen Student number: 256487 Academic advisor: Philipp Schröder Aarhus School of Business September 13, 2005 1 Table of contents 1. Introduction 1.1. Preface 6 1.2. Research problem 6 1.3. Problem formulation 7 1.4. Delimitation 7 2. Science and methodology approach 2.1. Approaches to science 2.1.1. Ontology 2
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