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FORECASTING METHODS FOR AIR FRANCE

tricky, however, is in predicting what passengers will pay and when theyll pay it. According to Mukhopadhyay and his colle...

AIRLINES AND GOVERNMENT REGULATION

volatile commodities (such as fuel and other raw materials) for it to function. Given the high degree of fixed costs in this arena...

Research Considerations for an Assessment of the Impact of Hedging on the Profit of Airlines

numerical, it is suitable to be used as a method of determining cause and effect relationships (Curwin and Slater, 2007). The meth...

The Value of Power Analysis for Qualitative Research

simply stopped hedging, as seen with US Air, others changed the way in which they undertook hedging, shifting from hedging for fu...

Should Southwest Airlines Open Another Call Centre in the US, or Should They Offshore Call Centre Services?

working with the Economic Development Foundation and the city of San Antonio in order to find a suitable location. The plan may be...

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 ...

Two Nursing Studies

their experiences following the refresher course during the first six months of employment as a refreshed nurse. Scott, Votova ...

Alignment Southwest Strategy, Mission and Operations

has been trading for more than 40 years, with a business that has expanded to cover much of the US, flying domestic routes and kee...

How Does Southwest Airlines Compete?

an airline which offered the lowest possible fares and would get people to their desired destinations. The idea was that if could ...

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...

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...

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...

Innovation Strategy as NEC and Acquisitions

That Cisco the paper is written in two parts. The first section looks at a case study of NEC and the development of a research and...

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...

INCENTIVE PLANS AND ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES

at employees or offer a tangible reward at the end of a given year (typically some kind of catalogue from which employees can choo...

Internal Assessment of Southwest Airlines

move forward it is necessary to look at the company and its position. A useful approach is the resource based view (RBV). With...

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES AND MARKETING

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...

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...

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES: AN ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS

in the months following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example, people forsook air travel and focused on vacations and travel tha...

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...

Emotional Intelligence for Leadership

won it again in February 1989, February 1990, March 1990, December 1991, March 1992, and May 1992 (Quick, 1992). No other airline ...

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...

Technology Use and Alignment at Southwest Airlines

internal organization and relationship with employees has been a key part of delivering the service, which has included a number o...

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...

A Strategy to Market Air Travel Services for Pets

The writer presents an outline strategy to market a new service offered by an airline, to facilitate the carriage of pets in the m...

The Economics of Ticket Pricing for Airlines

The writer looks at the economic impact of supply and demand on ticket prices in the aviation industry. The paper answers the ques...

Fuel Hedging and Profit

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

Assessment of Southwest Airlines

Using the RBV Approach The writer looks at Southwest Airlines and their different resources with the aim of assessing their streng...

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...