Southwest Airlines Introduction Southwest Airlines Co. is the largest low-cost carrier in the United States, and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The airline was established in 1967, by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. Southwest begins flying within the state of Texas (between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio) with three Boeing 737 aircraft. Today Southwest operates nearly 400 Boeing 737 aircraft to 59 U.S. cities. Southwest has the lowest operating cost structure in the domestic airline industry
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facing the airline Industry 8.2. easyJet’s future 9. Appendices 1. Introduction and History A successful example of a European no frills airline is easyJet. Stelios Haji-Ioannou (Greek) founded the company in 1995. It is based on the low-cost, no-frills model of the US carrier Southwest. The concept of easyJet is based on the belief that demands for short-haul air transport is price elastic. That means, if prices for flights are being reduced, more people will fly. Traditionally airline concepts
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CASE STUDY # 1 JETBLUE AIRWAYS PROF. AHSAN DURRANI Submitted by: IMRAN UL HAQUE (4282) Q.NO.4 WHAT IS YOUR ASSESSMENT OF JETBLUE`S FINANCIAL PERFORMACE DURING FISCAL YEARS 2003-2007? ANALYZE THE FOLLOWING RATIO`S. | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | Gross Profit Margin | | | | | | Operating Profit Margin | 0.0595 | 0.0537 | 0.0282 | 0.0877 | 0.1673 | Net Profit Margin | 0.0063 | (0.00042) | (0.01176) | 0.0364 | 0.103 | Return on Total Assets | 0.0398 | 0.032 | 0.0394
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Review X Vol. 5, No. 1, January - June 2004 STRATEGIC INDUSTRY STRATEGIC ISSUES IN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY AND SINGAPORE INTERNATION THE ROLE OF SING APORE INTERNATIO NAL AIRLINES Amit C. Kamath * Jonas Tornquist ** I NTRODUCTION THIS case study investigates the strategic environment of the airline industry operates. In particular, the role of Singapore International Airlines (SIA) in the global airline industry is considered. The study uses the concept of the “Three Ring Circus” (KCI , 2002)
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1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Overview 1.1.1 Airline industry The airline industry is one of the fastest-changing industry sectors in the world today. That said, compared to other industries the airline industry has a relatively short history to look back at. While it is rather an impossible task to point to the exact date which could signal the starting line for the airline business, it could be said that the history of aviation in general started with the Wright brothers’ success in
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MARKETING TERM PAPER FOR [pic] AIRLINES: A MODEL OF EXCELLENCE IN THE CIVIL AVIATION INDUSTRY Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION 3 1.1 Company Background 3 1.2 Research Topic 5 2.0 ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS 6 2.1 Political, Economic, Social and Technological Analysis 6 2.2 Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) Analysis 7 2.3 Summary 9 3.0 SEGMENTATION, TARGET AND POSITIONING (STP) 10 4.0 PRODUCT, PRICE, PLACE AND PROMOTION (4Ps) 11
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805–825 eAirlines: strategic and tactical use of ICTs in the airline industry Dimitrios Buhalis* Centre for eTourism Research (CeTR), School of Management, University of Surrey, Guildford, England GU2 7XH, UK Received 16 June 2002; received in revised form 26 April 2003; accepted 6 August 2003 Available online 13 November 2003 Abstract Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have revolutionised the entire business world. The airline industry in particular has fostered a dependency on technology
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JETBLUE AIRLINES The Basics of JetBlue Airlines JetBlue was founded in 1998 by David Needleman and many of the first executives, including Needleman were former Southwest Airlines employees. First flight was from Buffalo, NY to Fort Lauderdale, FL in February 2000. One operating base: JFK International Airport Five focus cities: Orlando International, Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (San Juan) International, Logan International (Boston), Long Beach and Fort Lauderdale
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CONFIDENTIAL EXPERT REPORT Research Study of the Civil Aviation Sector in India SUBMITTED TO: The Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Govt. of India, India SUBMITTED BY: Nathan Economic Consulting India Pvt. Ltd., India www.nathaninc.com January 24, 2012 CONFIDENTIAL Table of contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction .............
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