SWA offered low fare by actually reducing the cost but in India, the airlines that offer low fares are in reality not low cost operations. Indian LCC provided low fare by enhance revenues by selling food and drinks at higher cost and selling services such as insurance, hotel reservations, and rental cars on its website. Indian LCC used to charge for priority boarding and seat allocation and some airlines may put some hidden costs during booking through credit card payment etc. In India, LCC
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Reema Badlani Yogesh Badlani AIR ARABIA Air Arabia operates one aircraft type, the Airbus A320 and it is one of the few low fares airlines that has a young fleet. Air Arabia’s aircraft are all configured with a single cabin and offer customer comfort with the largest seat pitch in the market - that of 32 inches in comparison to 29 and at the most 31 inches offered on most
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Jet Blue Airways JetBlue Airways took to the skies in 2000 under a novel concept: bringing humanity back to air travel. Based at New York's Kennedy International Airport, JetBlue, a non-union airline, distinguished itself from other low-fare carriers such as Southwest Airlines by offering seat-back entertainment systems with live television, comfortable seats and blue corn chips. During the last six years, when traditional airlines were piling up more than $40 billion in losses, JetBlue grew
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Article Review Airlines have become an important form of transportation since the prices of airlines have gone down. People are traveling more with JetBlue, Southwest, Air Tran (low-cost carriers) than US Airways, Continental, Delta (network airlines). As mentioned in Planning Airport Access in an Era of Low-Cost Airlines an article from Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) 2006 written by Richard de Neufville; air transportation industry is changing fundamentally. Richard de Neufville
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Mission: Who are we: Low-cost airline focused on Texas and southwest part of the U.S. Target: people seeking public transportation that would otherwise use other means of transportation. What do they do: Southwest provides transport for small distance flights at a low cost with the most basic necessities for flight passengers in an enjoyable environment and good mood. Why? To provide customers with an alternative to road transports by reducing travel time and an alternative to other companies
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Case Scenario 2 1. Introduction to Virgin Blue – Low Cost leisure travel for Australians. - The airline was developed to service the Australian domestic leisure travel segment as a low cost airline with low prices, one class of ticket, and minimal on-board, complementary services. - In 2003, virgin blue holdings floated on ASX with core business being provision of travel services to leisure travellers in Australia and overseas - Pacific Blue in 2004 - Polynesian
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international operation of the brand Airasia which is Asia's largest low-cost carrier. (LCC) The Airasia X is also affiliated to Virgin group and Air Canada. Focusing on the low-cost, long-haul segment - AirAsia X was established in 2007 to provide high-frequency and point-to-point networks to the long-haul business. AirAsia X's cost efficiencies are derived from maintaining a simple aircraft fleet and a route network based on low-cost
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Submitted By, PRATIK CHATTERJEE ROLL-40 REG NO:1226112240 SEC-B FACULTY, Dr. CH VENKATAIAH OPERATION STRATEGY IN SERVICE: Jet Airways and Indigo. Both are India’s fastest-growing domestic market in aviation. OBJECTIVE AND STRATEGY: Jet Airways: Jet Airways objectives achieve consistent profitability, achieving healthy, long-term returns
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barriers to entry, low or no growth, rising costs, high competition, and strict government regulation. In addition to rising fuel costs, which happens to be a major issue, events such as the economic recession, swine flu outbreak, and 9/11 attacks have negatively effected or still continue to negatively effect domestic airline travel. To survive and reduce losses within the industry, some airlines still in business are merging to cut costs and adding baggage fees. However, low-cost carriers such
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external environment analyses (PESTEL)…3 Ryanair’s internal strategic capabilities (SWOT)……...4 Ryanair’s strategic choice (Porter’s five forces)………5 VRIO framework……………………………………………..5 Rumelt’s criteria……………………………………………..6 Ryanair’s implementation of low cost strategy………..6 Recommendations………………………………………….6 Conclusion…………………………………………………...7 Reference List……………………………………………….7 Appendix………………………………....…………………..8 12.1 Presentation’s slides…………………………………8 Word count 1,744 (excluding reference list and
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