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Essays 1051 - 1080
the U.S. Department of Transportation gave a name to the phenomenon - the Southwest Effect (Southwest, 2003). It refers to the con...
a person could book a flight on US Air and fly to any city that US Air or United or any other US prefix plane had an agreement wit...
is a huge factor in terms of how well airlines will do on a profit (or lack thereof) basis. The problem here is that rising fuel c...
had in the past, but with the difficulties seen in the aviation industry this may be a reason why strategy should be re-examined f...
at their results. In 2002 both companies performed well. Profits reported for Ryanair were reported at ?172 million1 (about ?111 m...
to redefine business without taking customers into account. One after another ceased operations, eliminating much of the current ...
the positions who were deemed to be more "normal." It also assured that those Americans with a disease which was thought to be too...
on the New York Stock Exchange. Many technology-based businesses struggled for survival for the remainder of 2000 and throughout ...
berating workers as for refining the assembly line. Drucker (1998) and others point to the futility of such an approach, along wi...
with the values they attach to making purchases and the access or utility they have in relation to that market. Airlines If we lo...
is not surprising given that one of the primary functions of labor unions is to insure its members jobs. Without the volunteer pa...
into operation, it meets all the other requirements. The following reflects the costs involved in this project. * $450,000 is the...
for the good of the company that they owned for the most part (2002). It is clear that United took these steps because it had to, ...
safety goal needs to have a measurable number, like an accident rate of less than one per 250,000 miles (Johnson, 2000). Once the ...
amount of funding gives the new airline a greater potential for success. To assure success, the new airline must be well-capitaliz...
from Taiwan to Hong Kong when it went down into the Taiwan Strait (Airline Industry Information, March, 2004). This type of event...
and KLM have eliminated the business classes they offered in the past. It appears that the world economy is improving, however, a...
This creates a highly competitive industry as airliners are increasingly more expensive to replace and the number of additional ai...
attention to safety program design can not only save lives but save airlines money. Safer airlines translate into a better econom...
to positive attitude that applicants already possessed. "We draft great attitudes. If you dont have a good attitude, we dont want...
middle of the 20th century (actually, following the end of World War II, when statistician William Deming took his "14 Points," in...
2003). Air travel at this time was very rare and very expensive, IN many ways this may be seen as the very beginning of the servic...
reach out to rank-and-file workers, who have been demoralized by their immense sacrifices" (pp. 56). The student researching airli...
this group of people demonstrated an increase in productivity. This starts to give credence to the view that working condition hav...
While in many situations, rank may be broken--and sometimes people even get ahead by doing so--there are some situations where sma...
as market structure and theories of the way that firm behaviour included. The variants of supply and demand will always be...
the two powers for years to come (Elbaum, 2004). In April, Peng Zhen was purged and in the months coming, Mao and the PLA took s...
be an air carrier with superior customer service that provides air transportation for passengers and cargo, utilizing low-cost car...
the shade, so to speak. Like other airlines, JetBlue is facing escalating fuel costs and huge consumer demand for lower fares. The...
expense of lower returns on investment in the future; in other words, a company might cut prices now to boost short-term demand....