Jet Blue Airways: Analysis of a Company The airline industry serves not only as a means of transportation to millions of people on a daily basis, but also a huge customer service industry. Customers analyze every aspect of air travel from the food services offered and convenience of completing business transactions, to the airline’s safety results and ratio of on-time departures. Many customers become brand loyal, where others will do business simply based on price. It is also vital to note
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Southwest acquisitions more comp in: 1985-Muse Air 1993-Morris Air 2008-ATA Airline 2010- Air Tran Airways Human Resources- Southwest has the highest percent of full-time employees in the airline industry. Something about human resources and Southwest can do as a company is transition to more part-time employees. By hiring part time employees, the company
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To: Professor Russ Ray From: Usman Mustafa Date: 9/05/2012 Re: Jet Blue Airways Case Attached Please find JetBlue airways case and their IPO prices Calculation table. The purpose of this memorandum is to discuss the initial public offering and the pricing of IPO of JetBlue Airways by using the selected multiples of comparable airlines. It also includes some advantages and disadvantages of a firm from going public. The multiples used to set IPO price were prices
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Case Outline of JetBlue Airways Corporation I. Problem: The main problem facing JetBlue Airways Corporation is: how to maintain low-costs structure and continue enlarging its market share in the competitive airline industry with increasing fuel costs. II. Strategic Considerations A. Industry Analysis 1. History a). American aviation pioneers attempted to start airlines using airships in the mid-19th industry. b). Aktiengesellschaft was world’s first airline
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UNITED AIRLINES SLEPT ANALYSIS Q1: What is meant by the external business environment and what are its main components? External environment refers to the environment that has an indirect influence on the business. The factors are uncontrollable by the business. The external environment of an organization is those factors outside the company that affect the company's ability to function. Some external elements can be manipulated by company marketing, while others require the organization to
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tightening domestic environment, Virgin has grabbed a bigger slice of the lucrative corporate and government market while still catering to budget flyers. But things could be about to get tougher for Virgin, with Singapore's budget carrier Tiger Airways likely to become a new competitor. More from our Business Editor Peter Ryan. PETER RYAN: When Virgin Blue filled the void left by the collapse of Ansett, the emphasis was on cheap fares, no frills and bring your own food. But in late 2005
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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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Civil aviation estimates that by the year 2010, 25 to 40 million international passengers will fly through Indian airports, while around 45 to 70 million passengers will be flying in the domestic front. At present, the market leader, “Jet airways” along with “Air sahara” controls 46% of the Market share, while “Indian”controls 25%. “Air Deccan controls 13% and Spice jet 6% with Kingfisher having 8% share. Indian Airlines commenced operations in the year 1953, with an initial capital
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1. Evaluate the composition of the top executive team at JetBlue: a. Is the team appropriately composed for starting a successful airline and running it successfully over time, respectively? i. I believe they are appropriately composed to start a successful airline. Neelman is the CEO and he had previously been a part of a successful start up. Additionally he went and recruited top talent that he had personally done business with or had been very successful with similar airlines such
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Professor Samir Moussalli MGMT499 November 18, 2010 Analysis Conducted by PSPS Associates Outline I. Management Summary II. Introduction a. Purpose b. goals III. Background IV. Strategy Formulation a. Vision b. External Opportunities & Threats c. Internal Strengths & Weaknesses
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