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Should Airlines Hedge their Fuel Purchases?

the firm to the relevant stakeholders (Chyssides and Kaler, 1998). When looking at the way airlines in particular operate prote...

The Loss of 191

Chicago, and the start of the Memorial Day weekend. It was also the day that American Airlines flight 191, bound for Los Angeles, ...

Less Privacy, More Security

one should trade for security is as old as the Republic itself, with Ben Franklin famously weighing in with the sentiment that any...

Environmental Analysis of SriLankan Airlines

company says. In order to consider the airline it can be examined by looking at the airline and its operations from several differ...

The Potential of Diversity Management at Cathay Pacific

firm was facing a potential action by pilots that were claiming racial discrimination based on the compensation packages that were...

Research Proposal: Airline Industry Profitability and Risk Management

A 73 page paper discussing risk management and its effects on profitability in the airline industry. The paper is a dissertation ...

BOEING & AIRBUS JUMBOLINERS ARE SUPER PROBLEMS

In this day and age of globalization and international trading, the airline looms as a massive symbol. Given its importance in bri...

Proposal for a New Low-Cost Airline in Oman

Hours per route 13 Figure 2; Cost of fuel per journey 14 Figure 3; Cost of fuel per hour 14 Figure 4 Total flying hours for the fi...

Wage Discrimination in the Airline Industry

preventing women getting to the top. However, it was found that women managers were not being paid the same as their male counterp...

Airline Industry - Profitability And Risk Management

industry. There are five general risk categories: safety risks, strategic risks, hazard risks, financial risks and operational ris...

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...

Virgin America Airlines

airline is not getting off the ground so to speak on its own. In fact, there have been allegations that the airline simply is not ...

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...

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 ...

Evidence of the Integration of Quantitative Methods in U.S. Society

This 8 page paper provides an overview of the use of qualitative methods in U.S. society. This paper uses examples from AT&T, Coc...

BRITISH AIRWAYS, THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY, AND E-COMMERCE

during FY 2007, it carried approximately 33 million passengers and 762,000 tons of cargo (Datamonitor, 2007). Employee pro...

External Influences on Different Types of Organizations

as a luxury when it is undertaken to leisure purposes. If there is an economic downturn within an economy, such as one which is oc...

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...

Companies Facing Antitrust Assessments

firm are not subject to the same competitive pressures as the post acquisition company would become the largest single wireless pr...

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...

Research Considerations for an Assessment of the Impact of Hedging on the Profit of Airlines

numerical, it is suitable to be used as a method of determining cause and effect relationships (Curwin and Slater, 2007). The meth...

The Value of Power Analysis for Qualitative Research

simply stopped hedging, as seen with US Air, others changed the way in which they undertook hedging, shifting from hedging for fu...

Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Method Proposal for Financial Research

the hedging category for the years in which undertook hedging. The results may be correlated to see if there is a snippet differen...

Research Design for a Financial Project

The writer looks at potential research designs to assess which would be most appropriate for research into financial performance o...

AIRLINES AND GOVERNMENT REGULATION

volatile commodities (such as fuel and other raw materials) for it to function. Given the high degree of fixed costs in this arena...

FORECASTING METHODS FOR AIR FRANCE

tricky, however, is in predicting what passengers will pay and when theyll pay it. According to Mukhopadhyay and his colle...

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...

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...

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...

What Caused the January 2000 Crash of Alaska Airlines' Flight 261?

crash were multifaceted and included not only inferior aircraft parts but also inferior maintenance practices as well as questiona...