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use of a single size aircraft where it is possible to easily substitute one aircraft for another is there are operating issues. ...

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...

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

text is able to answer many of the questions about the organisation, focusing on leadership and relationships, with context given ...

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...

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

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

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

background information and applying a number of theories to explain the way in which the industry operates. This will be useful in...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

were gathered and analyzed statistically using Tobins Q ratio approach. The research did not only look at the difference between t...

as market structure and theories of the way that firm behaviour included. The variants of supply and demand will always be...

reach out to rank-and-file workers, who have been demoralized by their immense sacrifices" (pp. 56). The student researching airli...

2003). Air travel at this time was very rare and very expensive, IN many ways this may be seen as the very beginning of the servic...

While in many situations, rank may be broken--and sometimes people even get ahead by doing so--there are some situations where sma...

relentlessly targeted Southwest in demarketing efforts, Southwest not only continued to exist. Eventually, it surpassed all of th...

of any law by a majority in Parliament. So, from this perspective, state power can be seen to be clearly located at the centre" (...

action-oriented learning, in other words, hands-on learning (Karp et al, 1999). Given this aspect, CBT would almost be a natural e...

complained through its national director that President Bush not only was "taking sides," but that he was taking the side of the a...

a single company; Qantas, the goals and implication of adapting this framework may be better appreciated. 2. The Global Compact ...

to influence them (Thompson 226). To demonstrate how they work we will consider there impact on a fictional company called Bits In...