KINGFISHER AIRLINES: MANAGING MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS The entire airline industry in India came under close scrutiny after Kingfisher Airlines, already known to be in deep trouble with a variety of stakeholders, cancelled about 35 flights, one day in November 2011. Many passengers had harrowing experiences of being stranded at odd locations, making alternate arrangements to travel, and rescheduling important engagements owing to the travel disruptions. Most of them, many very loyal customers of Kingfisher
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The airline industry has been trying to continuously improve the security of it airports and the procedures that are put into place to ensure the safety of its passengers. Over the last decade this has become very pressing issue and a question that has been on the minds of those that ate in the industry; how do the airline industry better prepare themselves for future threat. One of the things that I have notice with my travels abroad is that the security presences and type is much different then
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About easy jet is a British airline carrier based at London Luton Airport.[2] It is the largest airline of the United Kingdom, measured by number of passengers carried, operating domestic and international scheduled services on over 600 routes in 32 countries.[3][4] easyJet plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.[5] As of 7 March 2013, it employs "over 8,000 people", based throughout Europe but mainly in the UK.[6] easyJet has seen rapid expansion
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Case 2 - Baggage Complaints: Descriptive Statistics and Time Series Plots Baggage Complaints: Descriptive Statistics and Time Series Plots Background Anyone who travels by air knows that occasional problems are inevitable. Flights can be delayed or cancelled due to weather conditions, mechanical problems, or labor strikes, and baggage can be lost, delayed, damaged, or pilfered. Given that many airlines are now charging for bags, issues with baggage are particularly annoying. Baggage problems
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Porter's 5 Force Analysis Rivalry (High) Rivalry within the Canadian Airlines Industry is relatively high although WestJet and Air Canada are the two largest companies. This is due to various reasons which include difficulties in exiting the company,high levels of demand and price competition. The demand for the industry is huge and its a billion dollar market which airline companies want to control. The Airlines Industry is highly saturated on domestic and international levels which creates high
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despite of the increase of passengers, the company is not so good in managing cost that the company has lose its money. A new management team is brought in to sort it out and re-launch as a “low fares or no frills” airline, closely modelling the Southwest Airlines model in the U.S. And in 1994, Ryanair bought its first Boeing 737 aircraft which carried over 1.5 million passengers. In 1995, Ryanair is the biggest passenger carrier on Dublin-London route, the largest Irish airline on every route being
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Case study: EasyJet: The Web’s favorite airline Introduction In modern world, easyJet is becoming one of leading airline companies in Europe. When people want to buy cheapest airline tickets, they always consider easyJet. This essay will have three sections. Firstly, analyze the structure of the industry in which easyJet competes. Secondly, talk about the industry attractive after later 1990s. Lastly, some evidence will be provided to suggest that easyJet has competitive advantage. Structure
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logistics, maintenance, repair and overhaul, catering, leisure travel and international technology services. Southwest Airlines Company (SA) is an America low-cost airline based in Dallas Texas. Southwest Airline is the largest airline in the United States based upon domestic passengers carried with over 550 of these aircraft in service, each operating an average of six flights per day. Southwest and Air Tran merged with 37,000 employees as of December 2011 and operates more than 3,300 flights a day
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which the primary goal is to provide a product or service to consumers and to make a profit In a time where greed and self-absorption is rampant, a very simple idea has made Southwest Airlines the largest and most profitable domestic airline today. That simple idea is do the right thing and do things right (Yeh, 2006). Southwest Airlines, also known as the little airline that could, started from very humble beginnings; the idea for the airline being drafted on a paper napkin over drinks with a client
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Organizational History West Jet is a young company started in 1996 by a small group of entrepreneurs. According to the References for Business website for WestJet the WestJet founder Clive Beddoe was born in England and came to Canada and made a “fortune in developing commercial real estate in the Calgary area (References for Business website 2010)”. Clive Beddoe teamed up with Tim Morgan, Don Bell and Mark Hill to start a now frills airline according to the References of Business website. The
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