Business failure is when a company is forced to close because it is unable to generate enough income to cover its expenses. If business owners predict that business failure is evident, some will cease operating immediately; others operate until they run out of cash. Established businesses tend to fail because of economic conditions, political changes, or management decisions. New business failure is mostly the result of poor planning or decision-making.
The following companies are examples of business failed:
SwissAir: The liberalization and deregulation of aviation markets, beginning in 1978 in the USA, means that airlines are exposed to increasingly harsh competition in order to become profit making enterprises, which no longer require government subsidies and routes guaranteed by the state. This initiated a development aimed at lowering the standards for passengers and personnel. New cheap flight, no-extras operators, such as Easy Jet, Ryanair, Buzz and Go only pay a fraction of the wages of the traditional carriers.
In the last two decades, drastic changes in European air travel have also been made. A bitter struggle ensued to establish so-called “hubs”, where high passenger numbers could be realized through linking intercontinental and regional feeder flights, and which are now the most important prerequisite for surviving in this industry.
Intercontinental alliances were forged, and European airports such as London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle or Amsterdam and Frankfurt/Main were substantially developed. Zurich-Kloten was also set to become one of the ten largest European airports, and received over 2.3 billion francs ($1.4bn) in investments in the last two years alone.
An integral part of this plan was the expansion of Swissair to become the fourth largest European airline. Given Switzerland’s small population (approximately 7.1 million) and the well established competing European aviation partnerships, Swissair tried to