1. “Operations can make or break a business”. For an organization, operations include all the activities necessary for the fulfillment of customer requests, not just manufacture, also marketing, HRM, accounting, etc (Slack, Chambers and Johnston 2007, p5). Through operations, business provide products and service by changing inputs to outputs. Operations excellence is fundamental to strategic success. And according to Skinner (1969), operations management (OM) can contribute to better company performance
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Strengths: EasyJet is a leading provider of low budget, no frills air travel servicing many of the leading city destinations in the UK and across Europe, including Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Prague. They offer a high quality service at competitive prices and offer a number of features including ticketless travel, internet booking and assisted travel services. They have a highly distinctive livery on their fleet of aircraft making them easily recognisable and distinguishing them from their
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Pricing strategies of low cost airlines Keith J Mason Air Transport Group Cranfield University K.Mason@Cranfield.ac.uk 1. Introduction Low cost airlines such as EasyJet, and Ryanair have developed quickly in the European market in the last five years. The UK market has seen the most dramatic development where by the summer of 2001, these carriers accounted for over 22% of the short haul capacity from London and were present in 58% of the 128 short haul routes operated from
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European countries with a total number of 163 Boeing 737-800 planes (ibid). The low-cost model airline is pursuing seem to be successful, resulted in continuously increasing margin rate and overwhelming competition with other major airlines, like easyJet and Lufthansa (ibid). The predominance of Ryanair as Europe’s largest low cost carrier is a consequence of the following cost advantage sources. Homogenous fleet, frequent short-haul flights, high seating density and planes filled to capacity
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EasyJet: Stelios idea and his implementation of easyJet is of having a customer-oriented highly-advertised low-cost airline. The key ideas that really worked for easyJet in there as follows: Business Model: 1. The ideology is to have the airline stay in the air most of the time. EasyJet keeps their airplanes in air almost two times more than the industry average. Their 2 planes are doing the job of 3 planes of other carriers. As a result they reduced some of their fixed and overhead costs.
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consolidated with easyJet’s acquisition of Go and Ryanair’s takeover of Buzz, every month in the new millennium seemed to see the start up of new budget airlines and new routes or bases being announced. There were over 75 in autumn 2004. Leading players, easyJet and Ryanair, had orders between them for over 300 aircraft requiring both to more than double in size in the face of growing competition from new entrants, a fight back by established airlines and powerful tour operators. In the two and a half years
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EasyJet underlines advantage over budget competitors as profit soars EasyJet underlined its growing advantage over budget rivals, reporting annual profit at the top end of forecasts and returning cash to shareholders. The upbeat assessment is in contrast to that given by Ryanair, Europe's biggest budget airline, which this month cut its annual profit target for the second time in two months and admitted it needed to improve customer service. Rival airlines have been struggling with high fuel costs
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Business/technical approach 7 Business process changes 9 Technology or business practices used to augment the solution 10 Conclusions and overall recommendations 10 High-level implementation plan 11 Summary of project 11 References 12 Abstract EasyJet, a Luton-based low cost airline in the UK has managed to create differentiation from other low cost airlines through the introduction of a new system of seat booking. The move brought in a new era in the otherwise traditional synonymous seat allotment
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EasyJet, Vueling and RyanAir Lease Strategies Classifying leases as operational or financial is a key accounting issue in the airline industry because of the high value of the leased assets. When classifying leases the IFRS principle “substance over form” should be the prime criteria to identify the type of lease. In 2012 EasyJet operated 214 aircrafts. 148 of them were owned, 55 were acquired under operating leases contracts and 11 under a finance leases. In its annual
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mainly by private individuals (average annual growth of 9.4% for leisure travelers between 1996 and 2003 [11], Figure 2), the industry has experienced rapid growth since then. Most notably, Irish airline Ryanair, formed in 1990, and British company EasyJet, formed in 1995, were able to shape the European market (Figure 3). Germanwings and Air Berlin are additional major players in the low-cost carriers (LCC) market throughout Europe. PEST Analysis The evolvement of the LCC industry in Europe was
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