in the Emergency Link Centre. In the pilots’ lounge and surrounding offices, helicopter pilots, nurses and paramedics were on standby 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A myriad of other professionals, including experts in clinical operations, aviation, engineering, communications, disaster preparedness and base operations, to name only a few, comprised the support group of the STARS Air Ambulance service, or, as it was more formally known, the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (see Exhibit 1)
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by government and on 2 December 2001 was bought by Tony Fernandes. AirAsia was established in year 1993. AirAsia has travel around the earth and ascend to become the world’s best in year 2001. AirAsia continues to spread out the way for low-cost aviation through the innovation, efficient and passionate approach to business with a route a network that extent through over 20 countries. There are some companies which link with AirAsia such as AirAsia X, Thai AirAsia, Philippines’ AirAsia Inc., AirAsia
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nations on a global scale. As a result, companies have stepped up the cross-border business transactions in the recent past. Widespread sharing of technology, global economic shifts, and international governance among others, have been the enabling factors. Visionary business leadership has transformed national-level firms into robust multinationals that dispense a wide variety of goods and services to a scale never witnessed before. As many companies yearn to take their business internationally, they
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nations on a global scale. As a result, companies have stepped up the cross-border business transactions in the recent past. Widespread sharing of technology, global economic shifts, and international governance among others, have been the enabling factors. Visionary business leadership has transformed national-level firms into robust multinationals that dispense a wide variety of goods and services to a scale never witnessed before. As many companies yearn to take their business internationally, they
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Agriculture, services and manufacturing industries play a vital role in the development of the Indian economy. The IT outsourcing, software and call center/ BPO industries, in particular, have helped skyrocket India’s economic development in recent years. Economic development in India still depends on the various sectors that constitute the Indian economy – agriculture, services and manufacturing industries. India is rated as one of the top economies in the world in terms of purchasing power
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reaching its objectives. Both exist independently of the firm. The External Analysis is also known as the PEST Analysis, an acronym for political, economic, social (cultural) and technological analysis of the environment of a firm. Each of these factors can explain how Ryanair managed to become the most profitable airline in the world in 2006. Political/Legal environment The political environment1 in which Ryanair plays is relatively stable in terms of passenger volumes and flight destinations
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Ongoing Concern: Risk Management at Pakistan International Airlines1 Ch. Ahmed Mukhtar, Chairman Pakistan International Airline Corporation (PIAC) was reading the final version of the PIAC audited annual report. He immediately called the Managing Director, PIAC to arrange a meeting to discuss the auditor’s report. The particular part of auditors’ opinion that caught his attention was the following: “We draw attention to note 1.2 to the unconsolidated financial statements, which states that the Corporation
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nations on a global scale. As a result, companies have stepped up the cross-border business transactions in the recent past. Widespread sharing of technology, global economic shifts, and international governance among others, have been the enabling factors. Visionary business leadership has transformed national-level firms into robust multinationals that dispense a wide variety of goods and services to a scale never witnessed before. As many companies yearn to take their business internationally, they
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Table of Contents 1. PAKISTAN STATE OIL (PSO) ..................................................................................................................3 1.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................3 1.2 History . .....................................................................................................................................................3 1.3 Their
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deadliest conflict in all of human history and marked the rise in civilians as a target. Since then, civilians have become targets in many of the wars that followed; Vietnam war, Gulf war, Iraq war and the various civil wars in the middle east. World War II demonstrated an enormous shift in the technological capabilities of many countries which brought down death and destruction of the civilian populations. (1) Before World War II began, there were advances in military aviation which resulted in bombers
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