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Southwest - Preparing for Change

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

Should Airlines Hedge their Fuel Purchases?

the firm to the relevant stakeholders (Chyssides and Kaler, 1998). When looking at the way airlines in particular operate prote...

Decision Making at Happy Hospital Budget, Performance, and Ethics

properly! Budget and performance reports are a...

The Impact of Global Warming on a Business

their impact is felt by 70% of the population were effected to a significant level (Saporito, 2001). The emissions made ar...

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES - A CULTURE TO BE ADMIRED

maintain perspective and balance and to have fun (Culture, 2010). Values shared. This particular question is a very person...

CLASSIC AIRLINES - MARKETING RECOMMENDATIONS

The main problem statement is that Classic Airline must increase its RevPar (i.e., revenue per flight) as well as its passenger ba...

Operations of Major Airline

37th consecutive year of profitability (Southwest Airlines, Fact Sheet, 2010). Meanwhile, other airlines are struggling. Net incom...

Airline Profability and Fuel Hedging: An Analytical Look

to the airlines: they have to buy the fuel at the agreed upon rate regardless of what happens to the actual market value of fuel. ...

Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Method Proposal for Financial Research

the hedging category for the years in which undertook hedging. The results may be correlated to see if there is a snippet differen...

Research Design for a Financial Project

The writer looks at potential research designs to assess which would be most appropriate for research into financial performance o...

Information Systems at Airlines

core competencies. A good example is a small business where the owner does not have a lot of knowledge and skill in accounting. It...

OVERVIEW: SOUTHWEST AIRLINES INC.

trying to expand domestically, both through organic growth and acquisitions (Gilmer, 2010). SWA today is under the directi...

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...

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...

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS

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

Southwest Airlines HR Case Study

relations school of management, where motivation is directly related to the quality of the employment relationship. Furthermore, t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Virgin America Airlines

airline is not getting off the ground so to speak on its own. In fact, there have been allegations that the airline simply is not ...

AIRLINES AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

remainder of the year (Blunk et al, 2006). Many believe it never really came back all the way before the current crisis hit (Blunk...

Business Traveler Visibility and Singapore Airlines

In five pages this paper examines business traveler visibility increases in a consideration of the options available to Singapore ...

HOTELS AND RECESSIONARY ECONOMY/DISCRIMINATION AND LOSS OF AIRLINE PASSENGERS

But a downturn in the economy can definitely hurt the hotel business. In a recession, people dont travel as often (in the...

Environmental Analysis and Strategic Plan for Aer Lingus

In 2009 during the global recession Aer Lingus faced a number of challenges. The writer looks at the internal influences and the e...