1. Southwest’s Strategy and its Business Focus Southwest’s strategy involves: providing low airfares, short haul, point to point flight, only using Boeing 737, no international flights, one class seating, no meals or movies on flights, and fast turn around times for airplanes. Additionally, Southwest prides itself on delivering positively outrageous customer service (O’Reilly & Pfeffer, 1995). In fact, if Southwest were asked the question, “what business are we in” its most
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others. Until today, the Japan Airlines Flight 123 in 1985 is the single-aircraft disaster with the highest number of fatalities. In this crash, all 15 crew members, 505 out of 509 passengers died and resulting in a total of 520 deaths on board a Boeing 747. The aircraft suffered an explosive decompression from an incorrectly repaired doubler plates causing the aft pressure bulkhead to fail, which failed in mid flight and destroyed most of its vertical stabilizer, and severed all of the hydraulic
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Alaska Airlines Marketing Strategy Alaskan Airlines is one of the largest airlines in the US, ranking at number ten. It is based in Washington, using Tacoma international Airport in Seattle as a hub. Alaska Airlines is a major carrier on the US mainland, in Canada, Mexico and Hawaii. It has codeshare agreements with several big players in the market like British Airways, Cathay Pacific, KLM and Korean Airlines. Alaska Airlines is one of the few carries that retained profits even during the recession
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Summary of General Aviation Aircraft Value Analysis 400-800 Mile Trip Analysis This is a trip from Norfolk, VA (KORF) to Jacksonville, FL (KJAX) that is transporting six employees. The comparisons were derived from the provided data and also from Southwest Airlines website for the commercial air portion. The distance is 471 miles one way or 942 miles round trip for a car and 471 miles directly by air. The flight data provided a one way trip to Jacksonville, FL. | Automobile | Business
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early 2011, Boeing had announced its 7th delay1 and delivered the first plane in the third quarter of 2011, more than three years after it had announced that it would do so. Specifically, Boeing seemed to have made radical changes to its outsourcing processes that caused a breakdown in supplies. This process called business processing reengineering (BPR)2 enabled Boeing, to aggressively change the production process on the Dreamliner. To offset the $10billion3 in cost development, Boeing authorized
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case case Continental Airlines: One Company’s Flight to Success In the last decade, Continental Airlines has had a spotty track record. The airline twice filed for bankruptcy, realized diminished performance culminating in a $613 million loss in 1994, and was ranked dead last in industry indicators such as on-time performance among the major carriers. During these years, employees at Continental had undergone several series of layoffs and withstood both wage cuts and delayed wage increases in
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| UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCIÓN DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA INDUSTRIAL MAGISTER EN GESTIÓN INDUSTRIAL (PROGRMA ACREDITADO 2011 - 2015) | | Casos en Gestión Financiera Tercer Trimestre de 2012 Prof. Dr. Juan Gallegos “Caso 2: Southwest Airlines.” Autores Benjamín Eltit Silva Sebastián FuentealbaTorres Rafael Monsalve Eric Sánchez Vega 1 de Septiembre de 2012 1) Analice el mercado de las aerolíneas en el que entra a competir Southwest (competidores, consumidores, proveedores
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as variety promotes inefficiency. Southwest is the most productive airline in the sky and offers Customers a comfortable travelling experience. It offers a very comfortable ride with all premium leather seats and plenty of legroom with a young all Boeing 737 fleet. Let do a SWOT analysis on this airline First detail their strengths STRENGTHS * Best low-fare carrier by standardisation of fleet * Flexible even though unionized - can still negotiate flexible work hours * Maximises use
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charges a $35 fee (each way) to take care of minors traveling alone. It was explained to you that your daughter could not be approved for boarding unless you paid this fee, which you did pay. In your letter, you requested a refund of this fee—in your case, a total of $70. Mr. Price, I apologized for any inconvenience you may have experience in this matter. If you had read the special information attached to your ticket, you would have seen our policy that clearly stated, Continental Airlines charges
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(1) (a) What are the benefits to Boeing of outsourcing so much work on the 787 to foreign suppliers? - risks associated with technological gamble – 70% to foreign nations - in return for a share of the work, partners would contribute toward the 8b in development costs for the 787 - tap into the expertise of the most efficient producers, thereby driving down the costs - Boeing believed that outsourcing to other countries would help it gather sales in those countries - believed that by outsourcing
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