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Different Views on Airliners Carrying Guns in Cockpits

pilots, and they should have the right to protect that cockpit with a firearm" (Burns, 2002, PG). The Airline Pilots Association,...

History and Market Position of Southwest Airlines

Worth Regional Airport Board files a suit against Southwest to stop them from operating out of Love Field, which was the downtown ...

Airline Industry and Terrorist Attack Effects

Paul H. ONeill recently summed up: "We have a new kind of uncertainty to deal...

Diversity Hiring and it Benefits

there are other reasons for diversity hiring. In police departments around the nation, there have been accusations of prejudice. O...

The Jet Engine's Economic Forecast

are provided by the orbiting satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS) (Watson 1996). Known for his research on aircraft ...

Post 911 Northwest Airlines

brand. Why should customers choose air travel through Northwest Airlines for example instead of traveling by land or selecting ano...

Airline Passengers and Biometric Security Measures

since the days of Perry Mason of "The Untouchables." Biometrics are at the foundation of personal identification. They are the mea...

Ethical Implications of the Aviation Crisis

safety of its aircraft. "...Ansett had not broken any rules in not undertaking the maintenance check until now, but said the matt...

Airline Industry Restructuring in Canada

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

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...

History of the Wright Amendment

any of these deals simply because they didnt fly at the time the deals were made (Irving, 2003). After fighting many legal battle...

Sound Management Strategy of SWA

-- its drinks were "love potions," while peanuts were considered "love bites" (Hoovers Company Profiles, 2003). But when Dallas/Fo...

'Strategic Intent' and Company Operations

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

Computer Based Training and Airline Pilots

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

The Impact of E-Commerce on the European Airlines Industry

paper documents, using computer and telecommunications networks" (Czuchry et al, 2001). In other words, the person picking up the ...

Airline Risk Assessment

have been taken to reduce the likelihood of the risk occurring. Measures such as restricting what could be taken onto aircraft, th...

Aviation Safety and the Responsibility of the Government

This creates a highly competitive industry as airliners are increasingly more expensive to replace and the number of additional ai...

Southwest Airlines and the 'Secrets' of its Phenomenal Success

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

Airline Industry Pricing

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

Student Case Study on Chain of Command Protocol

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

Report on the Airline Industry

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...

Railway and Airline Industry Labor Relations Laws

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

Labor Unions and Airline Mechanics' Involvement Implications

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

Australia's Qantas Airlines and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Global Compact

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

Porter's Five Forces Model and Singapore Airlines

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

Sutton v. United Airlines and ADA

the positions who were deemed to be more "normal." It also assured that those Americans with a disease which was thought to be too...

Airline Safety

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

Ryanair and British Airways

had in the past, but with the difficulties seen in the aviation industry this may be a reason why strategy should be re-examined f...

Ryanair and Easyjet

at their results. In 2002 both companies performed well. Profits reported for Ryanair were reported at ?172 million1 (about ?111 m...