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Essays 1081 - 1110
The main problem statement is that Classic Airline must increase its RevPar (i.e., revenue per flight) as well as its passenger ba...
trying to expand domestically, both through organic growth and acquisitions (Gilmer, 2010). SWA today is under the directi...
various characteristics such as the range and variety, the quality of the product, the features such as the use of brand names as ...
37th consecutive year of profitability (Southwest Airlines, Fact Sheet, 2010). Meanwhile, other airlines are struggling. Net incom...
relations school of management, where motivation is directly related to the quality of the employment relationship. Furthermore, t...
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...
numerical, it is suitable to be used as a method of determining cause and effect relationships (Curwin and Slater, 2007). The meth...
simply stopped hedging, as seen with US Air, others changed the way in which they undertook hedging, shifting from hedging for fu...
won it again in February 1989, February 1990, March 1990, December 1991, March 1992, and May 1992 (Quick, 1992). No other airline ...
were gathered and analyzed statistically using Tobins Q ratio approach. The research did not only look at the difference between t...
approach to research. The suitability of any research design may be assessed in terms of the viability, robustness and validity of...
in the months following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example, people forsook air travel and focused on vacations and travel tha...
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...
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...
move forward it is necessary to look at the company and its position. A useful approach is the resource based view (RBV). With...
an airline which offered the lowest possible fares and would get people to their desired destinations. The idea was that if could ...
for a Better Airline" initiative that was used to help the airline create differentiation as a way of competing, In the Irish mark...
policy to be honest with its employees, that "through effective people management, the company had created the right type of cultu...
is the key to efficiency and the company "is committed to expanding the use of e-procurement technology" (Southwest Airlines, 2006...
information that can be used to enhance the service. The airline did not tie up the incoming and outgoing passenger information an...
Southwest Airlines has had problems dealing with disabled passengers. This 11 page paper examined the company, considers how and w...
This 24 page paper looks at how a merger may be assessed. Using the example of Alrajwan Aircraft Maintenance Company and Desert St...
resources that can be leveraged to make profit, at the end of the financial year 2005/6 the airline had carried a total of 14.5 mi...
competitive advantage. Airlines have sought to do this in different ways, for example, Singapore Airlines used the smiling air ho...
train, as the airfares have reduced and competed not only with each other but also other forms of transport. One of the companie...
left the airline industry financially devastated, with airlines losing $8 billion last year alone, according to the Air Transport ...
demand for the services may increase if they are demanded, but at the very least there is no economic pressure on consumers to red...
Southwest will need to alter policy in order to achieve the strategic position it wants and needs to occupy within its industry. ...