Tony Fernandes, founder and CEO of Asia's first low-budget carrier Air Asia, talks with Andrew Stevens. Tony Fernandes, founder and CEO of Air Asia BLOCK A A: Tony Fernandes, welcome to Talk Asia. T: Thanks for having me. A: We talk about you, a lot of people talk about you and describe you as the Richard Branson of Asia. Do you like that comparison? T: Well, I mean Richard Branson has done a lot of great things, so it's a bad comparison, but we're very, very different people, from a business
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Tony Tyler Director General & CEO International Air Transport Association Annual Report 2012 68th Annual General Meeting Beijing, June 2012 Contents IATA Membership Board of Governors Director General’s message The state of the industry Safety Feature: What is the benefit of global connectivity? 2 4 6 10 18 22 26 30 36 42 48 52 Feature: How safe can we be? Security Feature: Do I need to take my shoes off? Taxation & regulatory policy Environment Feature: What is right for
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Southwest to fly. A book was written based on Southwest Airlines titled “Green Wrappers and Goggles”, and the Arthur name was Winfield Barnum the story symbolize what happen if for example the name of the characters where T J Love and small jet taken to court by two large jets to stay on ground until the pleas from the court. Southwest have many products and services for example they provide Amenities making traveling extraordinary. Early Bird checks allow the passenger to board the plan earlier and have
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Brian Williams English 101 Mrs. Goebel October 1st 2013 . A Silver Bullet Switzerland, is known for it’s myriad of mountains; each peak containing their own unique features and secrets. On one of these snowy sierras lies the world- renown workshop, Hansjurg Kesslerâ€. In this workshop one of the finest snowboards known to the world is created, The Kessler. Originating in 1988, Kessler was established to build boards that exceeded the current standard of snowboards. Boards that were built
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Porter's 5 forces analysis on Air Asia Porter's 5 forces analysis on Air Asia Threat of new Entrants The extent of barriers to entry depends on the strength of: Customer has little brand loyalty. If consumers of Air Asia do not have brand loyalty, then the strength of the threat of new entrants is very high. The high numbers of competitors in the industry also decrease Air Asia customer loyalty. Most of the travelers prefer low cost. New competitors which want to come in the industry have
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Pankaj Ghemawat Morgan 227 Harvard Business School Boston, MA 02163 Tel: (617) 495-6270 e-mail: pghemawat@hbs.edu Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Ed Greenslet and The Airline Monitor for providing data on and insights about the commercial jet aircraft industry, Mike Kane for assistance with the original teaching case, and the Division of Research at the Harvard Business School for supporting this research. Airbus vs. Boeing in Superjumbos: Credibility and Preemption Abstract In December
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1 PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES: SCENARIO ANALYSIS, DECISION TREES AND SIMULATIONS In the last chapter, we examined ways in which we can adjust the value of a risky asset for its risk. Notwithstanding their popularity, all of the approaches share a common theme. The riskiness of an asset is encapsulated in one number – a higher discount rate, lower cash flows or a discount to the value – and the computation almost always requires us to make assumptions (often unrealistic) about the nature of risk
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The development and future strategy of Ryanair Ryanair became in 2009 the airline company which carry the most passengers in Europe. That is the result of its strategy which is based on a ‘no frills’ service in order to offer the lower prices. The business model of Ryanair is different from the classic carriers’ in the way that 20% of its revenue is generated from ancillary revenue, such as its “buy on board” program or extra fees for luggage. As we have seen above, the airline industry is very
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Nikki Perry Period 3 3/20/13 Effects of WW2 on minorities World War II brought about many socio-economic changes into the United States as it opened up new ways for the minorities as well as women to formally become part of the majority American society. For a long time African Americans, Native Americans (Indians), Mexican Americans, and women were treated differently compared to everyone else (white men) and not in a good way. World War II brought about a lot of changes including, more
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