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attention to safety program design can not only save lives but save airlines money. Safer airlines translate into a better econom...

have been taken to reduce the likelihood of the risk occurring. Measures such as restricting what could be taken onto aircraft, th...

This creates a highly competitive industry as airliners are increasingly more expensive to replace and the number of additional ai...

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...

on the New York Stock Exchange. Many technology-based businesses struggled for survival for the remainder of 2000 and throughout ...

to redefine business without taking customers into account. One after another ceased operations, eliminating much of the current ...

initial marketing and attention paid to the system there was an impression given of a forwards looking company which was investing...

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...

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

employees to be motivated (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The Hawthorn studies undertaken by Mayo demonstrated that the e...

Hours per route 13 Figure 2; Cost of fuel per journey 14 Figure 3; Cost of fuel per hour 14 Figure 4 Total flying hours for the fi...

jurists find that the letter of the law does not fit the case in question; as such, the jurist must settle disputes that are unabl...

modes of transportation most turned to at that time were railway and bus. One railway CEO, Marc Lefran?ois explained: "The shutdo...

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

played an integral role in maintaining customer return long after the marketing tactics have been utilized. Indeed, getting the p...

airline has faced some challenged, such as the fine in 2003 for failure to deal fairly with disabled customers. To assess the wa...

2002). What it comes down to between the airline industry and politics/public policies is the concept of economics: Because...

missing. There are no passengers or crew members missing among those four hijacked planes, however. All 266 died at the hands of...

globe and has played an essential role in the creation of a global economy" (The Airline Industry, 2002). "Today, the glo...

safety of its aircraft. "...Ansett had not broken any rules in not undertaking the maintenance check until now, but said the matt...

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

with a variety of governmental rules and regulations. In the United States, for example, airline companies operate under the auspi...

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

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

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

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

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

industry (Hashim and Shunmugan, 2009), Morrell and Swan (2006) argue that up to 15% of costs are accounted for by fuel, five years...