Managerial Leadership Case Analysis: British Airways (“BA”) Task 1 – BA SWOT analysis for the past (2003) Strengths | Weaknesses | CEO leadership | Low staff morale | Business class | Company image | Frequent flyer program | High debt | Cash liquidity | Lack of staff training programs | Innovation | Hierarchical management | Opportunities | Threats | Expansion into Middle East | Increase of aviation fuel prices | Alliance with other airlines | War in Iraq | Develop the
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Management in British Airways Name Class Affiliation Instructor Date Table of Contents Introduction 3 Context of the change 3 Evaluation of the nature of such changes 4 The change management strategy 5 The challenges and difficulties in implementing such changes 6 Change management model 8 Stakeholders 10 Managerial challenges 11 Overcoming resistance to change 12 Managing change 12 Conclusion 14 Reference 16 Introduction UK largest international Airline, British Airways, is among
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Strategic Management Group Project Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited Instructor: Mr. Audun Fiskerud Presented by: Mikael Tving Therkildsen - Jacob Brodersen – Jonas Ravn Nielsen - Gary Chuyu Fang Executive summary This report strategically analyses the Strategy Business Unit (SBU), passenger transfer service, for Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited. The strategic analysis contains investigation of certain key business areas of Virgin Atlantic, such as: defining whom the Virgin Atlantic customer
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2014). Its headquarters is based in Crawley, near Gatwick Airport in London, in the UK. Its route network includes destinations in the US, Africa, India, Far East and the Caribbean (Virgin Atlantic, 2014). The carrier's main competitors are British Airways, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific and South African Airlines (Virgin Atlantic, 2014). Virgin Atlantic’s core tangible service is passenger transportation (Lovelock, 1983). This is because the airline has incorporated its service system into
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Introduction British Airways London Eye is one of the most imaginative accomplishments of design and engineering ever seen. Conceived and designed by David Marks and Julia Barfield, the London Eye is a unique and exciting vantage point for Londoners and visitors. Compared to Eiffel Tower of France, British Airways London Eye is not only an amazing new landmark for Great Britain but also a new standard for architectural and engineering innovation. The British Airways London Eye is a privately
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began sharing routes in 2011 that connect mainland North America with East Asia through a nonequity joint venture. Flights between Honolulu and Japan are not included in the agreement. This joint venture is similar to one forged among AA, British Airways, and Iberia for trans-Atlantic travel that began operating in 2010. In both cases, the agreements allow representatives from each airline to jointly manage capacity, sell and promote space on flights operated by each other, divide revenues, and
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The UK Airline Industry The UK Airline industry is a huge industry for the United kingdom, it is important that we remember that it is not only tourism and passenger flights that we are talking about when we say the airline industry it involves all the shipping and import/exports that enter and leave the country by air, BATA say " Goods worth £116 billion are shipped between the UK non EU countries representing 35% of the UK's extra EU trade by value" The UK is a nation that is able to fly
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Overview Case Study #2 is centered around the reaction to a change initiative taken by British Airways (BA) in July of 2003. BA was implementing a new electronic time-keeping system that would use swipe cards to record when their employees began and finished work each day. As an act of protest, the staff from two terminals at Heathrow Airport in London went on a 24-hour strike that cost BA £40 million and 100,000 customers. The general consensus from commentators was that BA management made a huge
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