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Should Airlines Hedge their Fuel Purchases?

the firm to the relevant stakeholders (Chyssides and Kaler, 1998). When looking at the way airlines in particular operate prote...

The Potential of Diversity Management at Cathay Pacific

firm was facing a potential action by pilots that were claiming racial discrimination based on the compensation packages that were...

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND SOUTHWEST AIRLINES

Details a leadership development program to be put in place at Southwest Airlines. There are 10 sources listed in the bibliography...

The Impact of Global Warming on a Business

their impact is felt by 70% of the population were effected to a significant level (Saporito, 2001). The emissions made ar...

Singapore International Airlines and In Flight Business Technology Enhancement

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

H.R. 724/Nursing Education Act of 2009

back to Congress on the proposed legislation, either favorably or unfavorably (GovTrack, 2009b). They are first considered in the ...

HOTELS AND RECESSIONARY ECONOMY/DISCRIMINATION AND LOSS OF AIRLINE PASSENGERS

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

Comparing Organizational Behavior at Southwest Airlines and British Airways

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

The Hunt for Terrorists Methods of Screening Passengers

Security Officers" at more than 450 U.S. airports (Passenger screening). The security officers, along with over 1,000 other "crede...

AN OVERVIEW AND REGULATORY EXPLANATION OF JET AIRWAYS (INDIA)

able to hold its own and even earn a net profit of $33 million (Michaels, 2009). Jets IPO in 2005 was in the billions (Michaels, 2...

AIRLINES AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

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

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES, CORPORATE CULTURE AND SUCCESS

(and still knows) how to keep their employees happy. Rather than focusing on customer service, SWAs motto is employee first. The b...

DYNAMIC PRICING AND AIRLINES

a date of expiration for the seats (once the airline flies, if a seat is empty, it stays empty). Furthermore, capacity is fixed in...

Air Asia and BA; PEST Analysis

interestingly permission was later granted to the subsidiary airline of MAS; Firefly. This indicates that there is a degree of bia...

Global Warming and the Aviation Industry

formed as a result of the emissions (CAA, 2009). The fuels used by aircraft is the main problems. Aviation fuel is made up mostl...

The Intersection of HR Planning and Recruiting

conducted a ten-year study of small and medium-sized businesses in the UK and "concluded that HRM practices ... are the most power...

PEOPLE EXPRESS, THE BUSINESS AND THE DISASTEROUS BREAKDOWN

employees wanted to try ideas and make decisions that matched the "precepts," they wouldnt require approval. Furthermore, the idea...

Classic Airlines; The Problem

There is an opportunity to review the way in which the firms looks after its customers and provides service, this includes the cal...

PRICE DISCRIMINATION AND THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY

2007). After analyzing the costs and markets, the authors came to the conclusion that there was more of a monopoly effect in the a...

Risk Assessment of an Airline

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...

Operations Management; Singapore Airlines Cabin Crew

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

Leading Indicator Forecasts and the Airline Industry 2009 - 2011

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

IFRS GAAP and Interpreting an Assessment of BA

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

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES - AN ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS

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

Measurements and Variables Relevant for Assessing the Link Between Hedging Practices and Profit

were gathered and analyzed statistically using Tobins Q ratio approach. The research did not only look at the difference between t...

Profit and Hedging in the Airline Industry

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

Research Considerations for an Assessment of the Impact of Hedging on the Profit of Airlines

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

HR Issues - Resolving a Dispute

empathy and lowers the resistance to a resolution. When both parties have put their point to the negotiation, they need to ...

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS

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

AIRLINES AND GOVERNMENT REGULATION

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