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in the months following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example, people forsook air travel and focused on vacations and travel tha...

commission commented that commissions at the federal level are often scapegoats for politicians who do not want to make the decisi...

firm allows for an assessment of the power dependencies (Hatch and Cunliffe, 2006). As an international airline Qantas has a wid...

at employees or offer a tangible reward at the end of a given year (typically some kind of catalogue from which employees can choo...

out to the target audience is important, and SWA has relied on a variety of creative ways in which this is done. It advertises a g...

simply stopped hedging, as seen with US Air, others changed the way in which they undertook hedging, shifting from hedging for fu...

numerical, it is suitable to be used as a method of determining cause and effect relationships (Curwin and Slater, 2007). The meth...

industry (Hashim and Shunmugan, 2009), Morrell and Swan (2006) argue that up to 15% of costs are accounted for by fuel, five years...

won it again in February 1989, February 1990, March 1990, December 1991, March 1992, and May 1992 (Quick, 1992). No other airline ...

volatile commodities (such as fuel and other raw materials) for it to function. Given the high degree of fixed costs in this arena...

tricky, however, is in predicting what passengers will pay and when theyll pay it. According to Mukhopadhyay and his colle...

with a variety of governmental rules and regulations. In the United States, for example, airline companies operate under the auspi...

pace of the increase. The current low rates are a reflection of the economic climate, where the Federal reserve has a very low bas...

with other firm is the same, and in different industries, to compare performance results. The use of auditors has been und...

provide this source of differentiation. The theory of job design has been in place for many years, according to this concept emplo...

6 gallons of fuel per mile travelled (Boeing, 2009). The current average price of a barrel of fuel is $62.2, and there are 42 US g...

organization, impacting in the strategies that are adopted, determining goals and creating or influencing culture (Mintzberg et al...

experiencing the economic downturns like other businesses are these days, its still considered a company worth working for, and on...

In five pages this paper examines business traveler visibility increases in a consideration of the options available to Singapore ...

But a downturn in the economy can definitely hurt the hotel business. In a recession, people dont travel as often (in the...

In eight pages the options Singapore International Airlines can pursue in order to attract greater numbers of business travelers a...

the use of dynamic pricing. This is a pricing system that is designed to maximise revenues and seat sales. The marginal cost of ca...

the ability to assess the potential of m-commerce as a part of the strategies used by AirAsia. 2. E-commerce and m-commerce 2.1 ...

airline is not getting off the ground so to speak on its own. In fact, there have been allegations that the airline simply is not ...

remainder of the year (Blunk et al, 2006). Many believe it never really came back all the way before the current crisis hit (Blunk...

delivering good service, such as the Time 2008 Friendliest Airline award, and Forbes 2008 award for being the most reliable US air...

company says. In order to consider the airline it can be examined by looking at the airline and its operations from several differ...

income of $178 million and a net margin of 1.6% (2007 net income was $645 million, with a net margin of 6.5%) (Annual Report, 2009...

been asked to discuss Southwest Airlines internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (opportunities and stren...

(Southwest Airlines Co., 2009a). Southwest acquired Morris Air in 1993. This gave Southwest an opening in the Pacific Northwest...