NONLINEAR PRICING STRATEGIES AND MARKET CONCENTRATION IN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY A Dissertation by MANUEL A. HERNANDEZ GARCIA Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY August 2009 Major Subject: Economics UMI Number: 3384249 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the
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Romuel “Roy” B. Nafarrete Discuss the trends in the U.S. airline industry and how these trends might impact a company’s strategy. The U.S. airlines is started to see improvement demand for air travel in beginning 2010 after being affected by the economic downturn. Business travel, is directly affected by economic environment, to an all time low 2009 as many corporations slashed their travel budget (www.jetblueairway.com). The airline industry is facing most difficult times in history. There
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primary route to achieving superior shareholder value.2 Consider, for example, Southwest Airlines’ market-driven strategy that has achieved a strong market position for the U.S. domestic carrier. The airline’s growth and financial performance are impressive. Although Southwest is the fourth largest U.S. airline, its market capitalization is greater than the total capitalization of AMR (American Airlines), Delta Airlines, and UAL Corp. Southwest’s revenues will approach $7.5 billion in 2002, compared
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TOUR PACKAGE PROPOSAL Tour Package: Palawan Target Market:group (6 pax) Package Rates: 6 PAX | 6,875/PAX | Inclusions: | * Room accommodation with daily set breakfast * Whole Day Honda Bay Island Hopping Tour with Lunch * Puerto Princesa Airport pick up and drop off transfers * Services of licensed tour guide, all applicable entrance fees, aircon land transfers, boat transfers if applicable, picnic lunch | Exclusions: * Manila/Cebu-Puerto Princesa-Manila/Cebu
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investment, tourism, and is critical to globalization. Over the past ten years, air travel has grown by approximately seven percent per year. However, the airline industry suffered its largest downturn between 2008 and 2009, due to the economic downturn. Airlines carried 767,627,651 passengers in 2009, down from 809,447,811 passengers in 2008. Airlines have been forced to accommodate the economic recession by cutting flights, rescheduling existing routes, and looking for new revenue streams. As the
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|Quality Management and Productivity | Copyright © 2010, 2009, 2005, 2004, 2003 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course examines the concepts of continuous improvement and quality management, viewing quality as a systematic process that improves customer satisfaction. The course covers methodologies that will aid managers in assuring that the organization's quality system is effectively meeting
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Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: RIORDAN MANUFACTURING Problem Solution: Riordan Manufacturing Ray Pena University of Phoenix Problem Solution: Riordan Manufacturing In this paper will attempt to construct a problem statement that will assist Riordian Manufacturing in transforming their current human relations model. After establishing the company’s issues and opportunities that may arise as a result of attending to their current problems, the paper will discuss the influences that
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Case Analysis #1 JetBlue Introduction JetBlue Airways was founded in 1998 by former Southwest Airlines employee, David Neeleman, The company looks to utilize similar cost savings techniques as Southwest and has even improved, expanded and added some. In addition, JetBlue has attempted to offer differentiation in service to improve the customer experience. Unlike most pointtopoint airlines, JetBlue decided to add a second airplane model in order to expand into the regional flights
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Executive summary Air Asia Airline is one of the companies that once facing a critical financial crisis situation within the organisation. However Air Asia has successfully overcome this problem and expand this nearly bankrupt organisation to become million valued company within a short period of time. Air Asia only used 4 years times to change from a heavily debt organisation and become a high profit company that earn a net profit of RM112 million during 2004 (Air Asia 2005). This has illustrate
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Operational efficiency is performing operations tasks well, even better than competitors. Strategy, on the other hand, is a plan for competing in the marketplace. Operational efficiency and strategy must be aligned; otherwise, you may be very efficiently performing the wrong task. The role of operations strategy is to make sure that all the tasks performed by the operations function are the right tasks. These include developing an understanding of what business the company is in (the company’s
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