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means that even in years where many airlines faced losses and even bankruptcy, Southwest Airlines remained profitable, with hedgin...
industry (Hashim and Shunmugan, 2009), Morrell and Swan (2006) argue that up to 15% of costs are accounted for by fuel, five years...
be used for a number of reasons, Corman (1996) notes that there are potential benefits to managing Cash flow for some hedging prac...
reviewing some of the important issues in the literature which have guiding the way that the data was collected and analyzed. Foll...
Mintzberg et al, 1998). Successful and effective risk management may even be the source of a competitive advantage (Rose, 2001, P...
questions to be addressed with the research is to assess whether or not it is in the interests of the shareholders, assuming they ...
(Howells and Bain, 2007). Forwards Forwards are the oldest and perhaps the simplest type of derivative. The contract consists of ...
The writer proposes a research method to collect data from airlines to determine if airlines that hedge are more profitable compa...
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. ...
approach to research. The suitability of any research design may be assessed in terms of the viability, robustness and validity of...
theory with grand theoretical systems, when talking of psychology cites psychoanalysis and behavorism as grand theories. Here ther...
that the organization can ensure that they continue to purchase fuel at the current rate, even if the actual market value of the c...
paragraph helps the student provide an overview of the issue of fuel hedging. Hedging, as a generality, is a common investment tac...
Clark E; Lukas E, (2008, Nov), Hedging mean-reverting commodities, retrieved http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=12...
spirit, that the company regrouped, restructured and in many instances showing a profit despite the ongoing hostilities with bin L...
knowledge and huge access to capital, which many run-of-the-mill businesses just dont have. But a competitive industry has...
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...
the hedging category for the years in which undertook hedging. The results may be correlated to see if there is a snippet differen...
were gathered and analyzed statistically using Tobins Q ratio approach. The research did not only look at the difference between t...
airline operating costs. Increasing costs can have a significant impact on the profitability of a firm; this has been particula...
In this way the more operating leverage an airline has, the greater its business risk will be. Despite the fact that many analyst...
In eleven pages this paper discusses how hedging to enhance profits or reduce dealing risks may be used by international companies...
in a good position, because it will have hedged for a lower price than the fuel is now actually worth. On the contrary, if the pri...
2005). Even more interesting is that the "customer is always right" concept isnt true at Southwest Airlines (Taylor, 2005). "We ma...
the airline industry in the future, otherwise long term planning will have the potential to ignore factors that could impact heavi...
will have ripple effects throughout the industry. Although Delta denies that there will be any hub closures or job layoffs-for now...
In a paper of sixteen pages, the writer looks at profit in the film industry. The live action industry is compared to the animatio...
of market conditions at the times airlines do not need to utilize fuel. Brooks and Carter et al. (2006) observed that hedging pra...
that provide this route on a direct basis; British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and American Airlines. Other airlines, such as KLM and...