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Essays 961 - 990
Using the RBV Approach The writer looks at Southwest Airlines and their different resources with the aim of assessing their streng...
sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride, and Company Spirit" (Southwest Airlines, 2012). Applying the idea of McNama...
vary, Morrell and Swann (2006) estimates fuel accounts for 15% of an airlines costs, noting it is not only a major cost, but also ...
customer service (Southwest, 2012). The firm has been highly regarded by investor due to the strong financial results that have be...
Delta and Ted by United Airlines, both of which are now defunct (Maynard, 2008). In 2002 the airline flew its 5 millionth customer...
background information and applying a number of theories to explain the way in which the industry operates. This will be useful in...
use of a single size aircraft where it is possible to easily substitute one aircraft for another is there are operating issues. ...
way that the airline competes and assess that strategy the firm uses in the context of the four generic strategies. 3. Southwest ...
of hedging and how the airline will fare will depend partly on the type of instrument they use (Flottau & Wall, 2008). This is a g...
the resources and knowledge gained from the AirTran acquisition. The report will look at the company, consider the way in which i...
text is able to answer many of the questions about the organisation, focusing on leadership and relationships, with context given ...
Details a leadership development program to be put in place at Southwest Airlines. There are 10 sources listed in the bibliography...
firm was facing a potential action by pilots that were claiming racial discrimination based on the compensation packages that were...
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...
one should trade for security is as old as the Republic itself, with Ben Franklin famously weighing in with the sentiment that any...
Chicago, and the start of the Memorial Day weekend. It was also the day that American Airlines flight 191, bound for Los Angeles, ...
their impact is felt by 70% of the population were effected to a significant level (Saporito, 2001). The emissions made ar...
maintain perspective and balance and to have fun (Culture, 2010). Values shared. This particular question is a very person...
airline has faced some challenged, such as the fine in 2003 for failure to deal fairly with disabled customers. To assess the wa...
various characteristics such as the range and variety, the quality of the product, the features such as the use of brand names as ...
the firm to the relevant stakeholders (Chyssides and Kaler, 1998). When looking at the way airlines in particular operate prote...
37th consecutive year of profitability (Southwest Airlines, Fact Sheet, 2010). Meanwhile, other airlines are struggling. Net incom...
trying to expand domestically, both through organic growth and acquisitions (Gilmer, 2010). SWA today is under the directi...
core competencies. A good example is a small business where the owner does not have a lot of knowledge and skill in accounting. It...
The main problem statement is that Classic Airline must increase its RevPar (i.e., revenue per flight) as well as its passenger ba...
the hedging category for the years in which undertook hedging. The results may be correlated to see if there is a snippet differen...
The writer looks at potential research designs to assess which would be most appropriate for research into financial performance o...
tricky, however, is in predicting what passengers will pay and when theyll pay it. According to Mukhopadhyay and his colle...
simply stopped hedging, as seen with US Air, others changed the way in which they undertook hedging, shifting from hedging for fu...