JETBLUE AIRLINES The Basics of JetBlue Airlines JetBlue was founded in 1998 by David Needleman and many of the first executives, including Needleman were former Southwest Airlines employees. First flight was from Buffalo, NY to Fort Lauderdale, FL in February 2000. One operating base: JFK International Airport Five focus cities: Orlando International, Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (San Juan) International, Logan International (Boston), Long Beach and Fort Lauderdale
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STRATEGY MBL 915P Southwest Airlines in 2008: Culture, Values and Operating Practices Repeater Assignment 2 By : Refiloe Mokebe (72542683) 9/6/2011 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Question 1 – What is impressive about South West? 3 Question 2 – Benchmarking against the best practices 4 Question 3 – Key drivers for low cost / no frills strategy 6 Question 4 - What are the key elements of Southwest’s culture? 9 Question 5 - What grade would you give Southwest management
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VIA Rail Final Report Executive Summary Contents of the Report The content of our report includes key findings about VIA rail such as the challenges it faces, missed opportunities, strategic recommendations for each of its gaps, financial implications, followed up with a conclusion and the next steps that VIA rail should take. Brief Description of the Service VIA rail is an independent crown corporation that provides Canadians with safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible public
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2005). Our group decided to work upon Etihad Airways, the flag carrier airline for United Arab Emirates. The name ‘Etihad’ is derived from an Arabic word which means ‘union’. In addition to its main activity of passenger transportation, Etihad controls Etihad cargo and holidays. Aside from that, they have stakes in many other airlines as well. Some examples include Air Berlin, Air Seychelles, Jat airways (Serbian national airline) and Virgin Australia to name a few. In this report we provide a detailed
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ARAB ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY & MARITIME TRANSPORT College of International Transport & Logistics (Cairo) Energy Logistics Management British Petroleum Submitted to: Dr Ahmed Gheith Ashraf Mohamed Fathi Aly 10103283 Ahmed Fouad El-Tohamy 10103131 Ahmed Mohamed Fahmy 10103338 Youssef Roshdy Naguib 7104341 Abdulrahman Adel Youssef 3101363 1. History of BP A British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is the sixth-largest energy company
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Rudiger Hesse Robert Martinez Lee Vu Hoang Nhat Victor Ka Sing Tsui Executive Summary On September 27th, 2010, Southwest Airlines announced its intention to buy AirTran Airways for $1.4 billion, with the merger being effected within two years. Although by number of planes, AirTran is just slightly more than one-quarter the size of Southwest, the number of routes that each airline presently flies is the same. We anticipate that the intended merger will thus affect the latter far more than might be suggested
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elements of marketing are analysed with the Easyjet case study, it gives a good example as how the 4P’s help an organization scale to new heights with increased sales and customer base. T hey are; Product:- In the respective case study as Easyjet is a airline industry, its main f leet consists of Airbus A320200, Airbus A319 and Boeing 737-700. Easyjet is a budget airliner and intended to attract business customers and leisure travelers spending lesser time travelling between destinations. T he company
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Contents Introduction 2 General information 2 Baggage handling 4 Passenger terminal operations 5 Airport security 6 Cargo operations 7 Airport technical services 8 Air traffic control 8 Aircraft scheduling 9 Airport emergency services 9 Airport access 10 Infrastructure 12 Regular flights 14 Operational management 15 Connecting transport 15 Conclusion 16 Reference list 17 Appendix 18 Introduction The airport is located 10km east of Dortmund, Germany and sine 2006 its original
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Executive Summary Malaysian Airlines System Berhad is the holding company for Malaysia’s national airline carrier, one of the fastest growing airlines in Asia. Malaysia Airlines has three airline subsidiaries, which is Firefly, MAS wings and MAS cargo. Although MAS had provide an excellent services and won many award, they still facing financial problem since year 2002. Situation become worse in year 2014 due to the MH370 and MH17 tragedies occurred. MAS are facing three main problems. First
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10 | VIII. | References | Page 12 | IX. | Appendix | Page 12 | I. Project Question For our data analysis, our group decided to gather information pertaining to airlines and the different factors that go into calculating their revenue. To support our conclusions, we collected and evaluated 1,283 observations across 30 airlines, over a 12-year period beginning in 2000. We used this information to analyze the effects of a variety of independent variables on our dependent variable of revenue (both
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