Understanding Marketing Mix in Air Asia Airline Bhd Author: Onwutalobi, Anthony-Claret CSN: 31217-2008-22-15 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The term "marketing mix" became popularized after Neil H. Borden published his 1964 article titled, “The Concept of the Marketing Mix”. Since then, this terminology has become a common knowledge in the business world and has played a pivotal role in shaping most companies’ business processes and models. However, most people argued that this framework was particularly
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PRICE, SERVICE QUALITY AND CUSTOMER LOYALTY: A CASE OF AIR ASIA Nadia Hanum Amiruddin Faculty of Business & Entrepreneurship, University Malaysia Kelantan, Kelantan Email : nhanum@umk.edu.my , Tel : 0163350165 ABSTRACT Nowadays, the market is getting competitive in all aspects of survival of the company. Companies especially in the service industry realize that in order to win the market, they need to explore new ways of approaching customers. Therefore, it is important for the company to
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HISTORY OF THE AIR ASIA AirAsia Berhad is also known as AirAsia which is a Malaysia low cost carrier (LCC). It is an aviation company which provides main activity that is air transportation service. AirAsia is the starter and leading the low cost travelling in Asia where operate scheduled domestic and international flight and is Asia’s largest low fare. Air Asia has been established seen 1993 and it has been executed start from 18 November 1996. When it is being established, AirAisa was
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Source – HRM Asia (2010) It’s generally accepted throughout the world that now is not a good time to be in the airline business. The global financial crisis has put a squeeze on passenger numbers, while threats of terrorism and concerns over the environmental impact of air travel also dampen enthusiasm among consumers. Prices are falling; schedules are shrinking; and many airlines are accepting smaller and smaller – often negative – profit margins in order to maintain business through what they
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Asia is one of the Malaysian Airline, as the second Malaysian National Airline, Air Asia was born in 1993 and started operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by a government-owned conglomerate DRB-Hicom. On 2 December 2001, the heavily-indebted airline was purchased by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes's company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit. Normally low-costs Airline has a lot of differences with traditional Airline. These differences such as
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Asia is one of the Malaysian Airline, as the second Malaysian National Airline, Air Asia was born in 1993 and started operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by a government-owned conglomerate DRB-Hicom. On 2 December 2001, the heavily-indebted airline was purchased by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes's company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit. Normally low-costs Airline has a lot of differences with traditional Airline. These differences such as
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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 to spend little to compete with Air Asia. High capital requirement. The industry of airline needs large volume of start-up capital. The cost of setting up of offices, buying or leasing aircraft, hiring pilots and other staffs like air stewardess and etc incur a high start-up cost. Thus, the threat is low for Air Asia. Different product
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About the Airline Industry: In December 1912, the first domestic air route was opened between Delhi and Karachi by The Indian State Air Services (in collaboration with Imperial Airways of the UK). This marked a new beginning in India. Three years later, Tata Sons started a regular airmail service between Karachi and Madras. At that time, there were a few transport companies operating within and also beyond the frontiers of the country, carrying both air cargo and passengers. Some of these
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outside MAS to short-haul premium airline headed by Rasdhan as that would mean a loss of benefits. Both Khazanah and Ahmad Jauhari have yet to respond to earlier StarBiz queries. While the cries of the union workforce of MAS over the need to protect their jobs are felt by the Prime Minister, we have reiterated that the key low-hanging fruit fro. MAS to pick lies in trimming its excessive workforce (MAS has some 20, 000 employees versus AirAsia’s 9,000 and Singapore Airlines’ 21, 000), “ OSK research said
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outside MAS to short-haul premium airline headed by Rasdhan as that would mean a loss of benefits. Both Khazanah and Ahmad Jauhari have yet to respond to earlier StarBiz queries. While the cries of the union workforce of MAS over the need to protect their jobs are felt by the Prime Minister, we have reiterated that the key low-hanging fruit for MAS to pick lies in trimming its excessive workforce [MAS has some 20, 000 employees versus AirAsia's 9,000 and Singapore Airlines' 21, 000), " 0SK research said
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