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Oil Prices and Airline Budgets

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 Competitive Strategy of Southwest Airlines

the resources and knowledge gained from the AirTran acquisition. The report will look at the company, consider the way in which i...

Annotated Bibliography for Research on Southwest Airlines

text is able to answer many of the questions about the organisation, focusing on leadership and relationships, with context given ...

Annotated Bibliography for an Assessment of Southwest Airlines

background information and applying a number of theories to explain the way in which the industry operates. This will be useful in...

Southwest Airlines Generic Strategy

way that the airline competes and assess that strategy the firm uses in the context of the four generic strategies. 3. Southwest ...

Airport Security Screening of Commercial Air Crews

higher levels with each passing year" (U.S. FAA is Improving Security In Three Areas). II. DIFFUSING AN ALREADY TENSE SITUATION ...

Different Views on Airliners Carrying Guns in Cockpits

pilots, and they should have the right to protect that cockpit with a firearm" (Burns, 2002, PG). The Airline Pilots Association,...

Motivation and Employees

highly motivated workforce is Southwest Airlines. Lieber reported that Herb Kelleher, Southwests CEO, makes sure his employees bel...

UK's 'No Frills' Airlines and Organizational Culture

to put speed and efficiency as a priority: the planes must keep to a tight schedule and often must faster turn-around times, and l...

Airline Deregulation History and Legislation

Deregulation in business, which is the process of allowing businesses to operate without legislative controls, has historically be...

Moving forward at SWA

In five pages this paper examines how Southwest Airlines can be finely tweaked for the future while retaining its competitive ad...

Airlines, Deregulation, and Their Continuing Impacts

it would be packages of checking, savings, credit cards, and safe deposit boxes. Other products may result from alliances, such a...

Australia's Ansett Airlines

In five pages the airline named after Australian founder Reginald Myles Ansett is discussed within the context of its steadfast co...

Harvard Case Study 794 152 on 1990s' Swissair Alliances

in 1989 an official policy of forming strategic alliances with other airlines. The first alliance included the Scandanavian, Aust...

Notes on Marketing and Strategy

In eight pages this paper examines acquisition advantages over startup, Porter's Competitive Strategy, and the marketing effects o...

Ernesto Che Guevara's Leadership Characteristics

in 1963 illustrates the conditions against which Guevara dedicated his struggle. Brennan (1998) was in Guatemala City for the pur...

Marketing Case Study of SWA

is so important to this case is because it does not follow a normal path. Vilcassim & Kadiyali (1999) explain that a company react...

Airline Passengers and Biometric Security Measures

since the days of Perry Mason of "The Untouchables." Biometrics are at the foundation of personal identification. They are the mea...

Post 911 Northwest Airlines

brand. Why should customers choose air travel through Northwest Airlines for example instead of traveling by land or selecting ano...

American Airlines and Social Issues

In five pages this paper examines how various social issues are handled by American Airlines. Four sources are cited in the bibli...

Electronic Commerce and Southwest Airlines

advancing the commercial airline industry, for example, Southwest was the first airline to offer a frequent flyer program that off...

NetJets Fractional Ownwership Airline Company Marketing

and active use of the aircraft. One of the benefits is that if an organization can benefit only from a portion of those hours, th...

Analysis of SWA

near downtown Dallas (Hoovers Company Profiles, 2003). Because the airline operated from capital of Field, Southwest adopte...

History of the Wright Amendment

any of these deals simply because they didnt fly at the time the deals were made (Irving, 2003). After fighting many legal battle...

Eastern Airlines and Its Downfall

to meet contract requirements (PG). However, the inauguration of schedules had been delayed a number of times awaiting installatio...

'Strategic Intent' and Company Operations

relentlessly targeted Southwest in demarketing efforts, Southwest not only continued to exist. Eventually, it surpassed all of th...

Labor Unions and Airline Mechanics' Involvement Implications

complained through its national director that President Bush not only was "taking sides," but that he was taking the side of the a...

Computer Based Training and Airline Pilots

action-oriented learning, in other words, hands-on learning (Karp et al, 1999). Given this aspect, CBT would almost be a natural e...

Student Case Study on Chain of Command Protocol

While in many situations, rank may be broken--and sometimes people even get ahead by doing so--there are some situations where sma...

Southwest Airlines and the 'Secrets' of its Phenomenal Success

to positive attitude that applicants already possessed. "We draft great attitudes. If you dont have a good attitude, we dont want...