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Risk Assessment of an Airline

6 gallons of fuel per mile travelled (Boeing, 2009). The current average price of a barrel of fuel is $62.2, and there are 42 US g...

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...

Operations Management; Singapore Airlines Cabin Crew

provide this source of differentiation. The theory of job design has been in place for many years, according to this concept emplo...

Should AirAsia Adopt an M-Commerce Strategy?

the ability to assess the potential of m-commerce as a part of the strategies used by AirAsia. 2. E-commerce and m-commerce 2.1 ...

Comparing Organizational Behavior at Southwest Airlines and British Airways

delivering good service, such as the Time 2008 Friendliest Airline award, and Forbes 2008 award for being the most reliable US air...

Knowledge Management and Learning in Low Cost Airlines

the use of dynamic pricing. This is a pricing system that is designed to maximise revenues and seat sales. The marginal cost of ca...

Singapore International Airlines and In Flight Business Technology Enhancement

In eight pages the options Singapore International Airlines can pursue in order to attract greater numbers of business travelers a...

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 ...

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...

Improving Porters 5 Forces Analysis

Porters 5 Forces analysis model is a well established analysis model. The model has been around for many years, the writer looks ...

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...

Marketing Issues at Classic Airlines

the company to more effectively use its resources with a focused strategy. Where there are products which are more exclusive or d...

The Hunt for Terrorists Methods of Screening Passengers

Security Officers" at more than 450 U.S. airports (Passenger screening). The security officers, along with over 1,000 other "crede...

AN OVERVIEW AND REGULATORY EXPLANATION OF JET AIRWAYS (INDIA)

able to hold its own and even earn a net profit of $33 million (Michaels, 2009). Jets IPO in 2005 was in the billions (Michaels, 2...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

OVERVIEW: SOUTHWEST AIRLINES INC.

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

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...

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...

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. ...