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Research Proposal: Airline Industry Profitability and Risk Management

A 73 page paper discussing risk management and its effects on profitability in the airline industry. The paper is a dissertation ...

BOEING & AIRBUS JUMBOLINERS ARE SUPER PROBLEMS

In this day and age of globalization and international trading, the airline looms as a massive symbol. Given its importance in bri...

BRITISH AIRWAYS, THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY, AND E-COMMERCE

during FY 2007, it carried approximately 33 million passengers and 762,000 tons of cargo (Datamonitor, 2007). Employee pro...

Evidence of the Integration of Quantitative Methods in U.S. Society

This 8 page paper provides an overview of the use of qualitative methods in U.S. society. This paper uses examples from AT&T, Coc...

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...

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...

Companies Facing Antitrust Assessments

firm are not subject to the same competitive pressures as the post acquisition company would become the largest single wireless pr...

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...

Primary Research on Hedging

approach to research. The suitability of any research design may be assessed in terms of the viability, robustness and validity of...

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...

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...

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...

Is There a Relationship between the Profitability Levels of Airlines and the Practice of Fuel Hedging?

vary, Morrell and Swann (2006) estimates fuel accounts for 15% of an airlines costs, noting it is not only a major cost, but also ...

The Airline Industry - Effects of Deregulation from WW2 to Today

the Civil Aeronautics Board to keep the airline industry in stasis. Firstly, they were able to control which airlines could fly wh...

Fuel Hedging and Profit

airline operating costs. Increasing costs can have a significant impact on the profitability of a firm; this has been particula...

Marketing and Brand Management at JetBlue

Delta and Ted by United Airlines, both of which are now defunct (Maynard, 2008). In 2002 the airline flew its 5 millionth customer...

Designing a Questionnaire to Asses the Value of Hedging in the Aviation Industry

This 3 page paper designs a questionnaire which may be used as the basis for a structured interview or self competing survey looki...

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...

Is There a Correlation between the Profitability and Practice of Hedging in Airlines?

of market conditions at the times airlines do not need to utilize fuel. Brooks and Carter et al. (2006) observed that hedging pra...

Theory of Constraints (ToC)and Use to Assess the Value of Hedging

The theory of constraints is examined as a suitable theory to be used in an assessment of the value of airline fuel hedging and t...

Ryanair Macro Environmental Analysis

which the airline is able to compete without effective barriers. However, a major issue faced by Ryanair has been the impact of Eu...

Theory and Practice in Airline Fuel Hedging

one of these concepts represents a total image of the truth of theory. Rather, a synthetic view of theory developed from exploring...

Airline Industry - Future Projections

in carrying out any analysis the conducting of meaningful research. This means that one cannot proceed in ones analysis purely fro...

The SAS Internet Presence

seen as providing a quality design. Question 2 Overall the web site is well designed. However, there is one element this writer...

The Future of Air Traffic Control - NextGen System

is rife with difficulties and setbacks, regardless of the economic status of the world economy at any given point. The dependence ...

Should Airlines be Regulated Again

commission commented that commissions at the federal level are often scapegoats for politicians who do not want to make the decisi...

Qantas in the Business Environment

firm allows for an assessment of the power dependencies (Hatch and Cunliffe, 2006). As an international airline Qantas has a wid...