Essays on Airline Industry Page 5

Southwest Airlines Challenge to Stay Ahead Abstract This paper will discuss the challenges currently facing Southwest Airlines in their attempt to remain the most profitable airline in the United States. Southwest has posted consecutive quarterly profits dating back to 1991. Southwest’s success is built upon a business model to keep costs low while providing great…

INTRODUCTION PT. Garuda Indonesia (Garuda) is the oldest flight company in Indonesia and owned by the government. In 2010, in its 60th anniversary-an age that should enter or in mature position- it showed more losses than profit (like shown in the 5 consecutive years of financial statement). In 2006 under the new leader of Emirsyah…

Executive Summary JetBlue is a company built on a focal point scheme of low-cost. no-hassle ticketing and refreshfully efficient client service. The company began with the end to extinguish many of the complexnesss and asininities of commercial air travel and put a new criterion for client service. Therefore far the company has flown beyond these…

Abstract The aim of this paper is to identify challenge faced to Low-Cost Carriers (LCCs) or Low-Cost Airlines and provide new insights into the development and competitive strategy for LCCs. LCCs are still a relatively new phenomenon in Australia since Virgin Blue and Jetstar came to the market. There are over 30 LCCs have been…

Abstract In recent times, Users of airlines have graduated from using a travel agent to book for flights, to logging on directly to the portal of any Airline of their choice that uses the Computer Reservation System (CRS), for bookings of flight, and now in most recent times, the use of mobile devices e. g….

The fourthquarter of 1985 had shown a $67.4 million loss, and financially expertshad told Frank Borman, president and chief executive officer, that theairline had three choices: a 20 percent pay cut for all union andnoncontract employees. Filing for Chapter 11 (bankruptcy) or Sellingthe airline. On February 23, 1986, Eastern’s board of directors met to decide…

Malaysia Airlines suffers major unprofitability since 1997, lost their market shares and recovered only in first quarter 2006 and 2007. To counter that, Malaysia Airlines has introduced its Business Turnaround Plan in 2008 to recover their market share among customers for improvements which covers from cost cutting measures to business strategies like: Cost cutting measures:…

Pakistan International Airline ( PIA ) is really likely to post losingss once more for the last one-fourth of fiscal twelvemonth 2012-13 as good. despite a batch of betterment in promptness. regularity and credibleness observed late. “Quite evidently. immense fiscal liabilities bow the national air hose down. hence. it is non wise to believe that…

Latin American airline industry TAM Airlines is the largest airline in Latin America in terms of number of annual passengers flown. [16]Along the first countries to have regular airlines in Latin America were Colombia with Avianca, Chile with LAN Chile (today LAN Airlines), Dominican Republic with Air Dominicana, Mexico with Mexicana de Aviacion, Brazil with…

            If there is an airline organization emulated and copied by other airlines operators in and outside the United States, this could be no other than Southwest Airlines. From a humble beginning of operation within three destinations in Texas, the firm is able to sustain a consistent growth of 10% throughout its more than three…