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Is There a Correlation between the Profitability and Practice of Hedging in Airlines?

of market conditions at the times airlines do not need to utilize fuel. Brooks and Carter et al. (2006) observed that hedging pra...

Theory of Constraints (ToC)and Use to Assess the Value of Hedging

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...

Oil Prices and Airline Budgets

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...

The Competitive Strategy of Southwest Airlines

the resources and knowledge gained from the AirTran acquisition. The report will look at the company, consider the way in which i...

Annotated Bibliography for Research on Southwest Airlines

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

Fuel Hedging and Profit

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

Assessment of Southwest Airlines

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

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 ...

Alignment Southwest Strategy, Mission and Operations

has been trading for more than 40 years, with a business that has expanded to cover much of the US, flying domestic routes and kee...

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...

Ryanair Macro Environmental Analysis

which the airline is able to compete without effective barriers. However, a major issue faced by Ryanair has been the impact of Eu...

Theory and Practice in Airline Fuel Hedging

one of these concepts represents a total image of the truth of theory. Rather, a synthetic view of theory developed from exploring...

Airline Industry - Future Projections

in carrying out any analysis the conducting of meaningful research. This means that one cannot proceed in ones analysis purely fro...

The Airline Industry - Effects of Deregulation from WW2 to Today

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

The Future of Air Traffic Control - NextGen System

is rife with difficulties and setbacks, regardless of the economic status of the world economy at any given point. The dependence ...

Success 'Secret' of SWA

positive attitude that applicants already possessed. "We draft great attitudes. If you dont have a good attitude, we dont want yo...

Eastern Airlines and Its Downfall

to meet contract requirements (PG). However, the inauguration of schedules had been delayed a number of times awaiting installatio...

Analysis of SWA

near downtown Dallas (Hoovers Company Profiles, 2003). Because the airline operated from capital of Field, Southwest adopte...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Airline Travel and Motivational Strategies

Indeed, getting the passengers is the task of advertising genius; keeping them, however, is often a much more difficult equation. ...

Airline Company's Information Technology System Security Issues

time will obviously be severely undermined if security issues mean that customers do not have confidence that their transactions w...