Jet Blue Airways Linda Newman Bus 599 Dr. Romuel “Roy” B. Nafarrete Discuss the trends in the U.S. airline industry and how these trends might impact a company’s strategy. The U.S. airlines is started to see improvement demand for air travel in beginning 2010 after being affected by the economic downturn. Business travel, is directly affected by economic environment, to an all time low 2009 as many corporations slashed their travel budget (www.jetblueairway.com). The airline industry
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1. Choose one of the following three industries (NOT specific companies) for analysis: . Airlines (carriers) . Automobiles . Personal computers. RATE (not Rank) the global importance of each of Porter’s five industry forces on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 = Low, 5 = High), and provide at least two reasons for each rating. In addition, list at least three industries that complement the industry you choose. (30 points) Airlines Industry 1. Oil Service Industry- Fuel airplanes
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Discuss the trends in the U.S. airline industry and how these trends might impacta company's strategy The trend in US airline industry is to use different pricing to attract more customers and to increase the income of the airlines. The airlines use different software that will help them profit on their returns. The trend now for airlines is to decrease the operating cost for the airlines. Nowadays airlines are going into the business of leasing the aircraft verses buying them out right to save
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Transaction Processing System (TPS) This is responsible for ticket reservation and tracking flow of all transaction. `Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) This helps firms manage teir relationship with their customers Executive Support System (ESS) Used by senior managers to address strategic issues and longterm planning. Human Resource function business process Failure in this business was evident in the failure to hire or predict enough airline's staffing needs to keep up
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GMG to exit wide-body aircraft operation and re-focus on high growth domestic and regional routes using new generation narrow-body aircraft Dhaka, March 28, 2012: GMG Airlines is planning to adopt a new business strategy in light of rising fuel prices and changing international competitive environment through a 360 degree restructure of its strategy, organization, fleet and business model. It will redesign its route network to focus on higher yield, higher growth domestic and regional routes
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Abstract We will be discussing some of the thoughts and issues that can be pin pointed to the service shut down of JetBlue Airlines. We will also look at a few different scenarios as to what could have been done differently to avoid such a catastrophe. We will look at things such as management's position in the technology department’s lack of planning. Jet Blue My thoughts as to what contributed to the shutdown of JetBlue were lack of management planning and technology shortfalls. JetBlue
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Research Background The competition between Low Cost Carriers (LCCs) and Full Service Carrier is getting intense caused by the process of liberalization in aviation field. In the case of Malaysia, the entries of LCCs, Air Asia, Firefly and Malindo have raised the number of passengers travelling inbound or outboard of the destination. According to Malaysia Airports Holding Berhad (MAHB) Annual Report 2009, the passenger movement of AirAsia for domestic traffic
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and US Airways. On January 7, 2014 both airline announced the $17 billion merger that created the world’s largest airline, which is a position that American Airlines once held years ago until a wave of mergers and consolidations in the airline industry over the past few years. It plans to operate nearly 6,700 daily flights to more than 330 destinations in more than 50 countries. The strategy that led US Airways and American Airlines to merge was one of mutual benefit. In 2012, US Airways expressed
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Ryanair has thrived since the early 90’s due to a number of factors were luck was on their side but also through innovative and creative ideas. Ryanair’s strategy was to become the first European budget airline. Ryanair made key strategic decisions regarding the long term direction of the company and the scope of their activities while considering the external environment in order to achieve strategic fit. The first strategic move in order to become a successful low-cost airline was to recruit
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Jet Airways – Etihad Airways Strategic Alliance Jet Airways.com Jet Airways and Etihad Airways are proud to announce the conclusion of the transaction for the subscription of 24 per cent minority equity stake in Jet Airways. This follows all government and regulatory approvals received on the 12th of November 2013. The infusion of foreign direct investment in the Indian aviation sector will result in economies of scale, growth in traffic at Indian airports and will create job opportunities across
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