English only July 2007 PRIVATIZATION AND RE-NATIONALIZATION OF MALAYSIA AIRLINES (Submitted by the ICAO Secretariat) 1. BACKGROUND Malaysia Airlines (MAS) was incorporated as Malaysia’s flag carrier in 1971 following the breakdown of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines partnership. Since then‚ MAS has continued to expand its network and fleet. By mid-1980s‚ MAS had a total of about 60 domestic and international destinations in its network and a fleet of over 35 aircraft. However‚ MAS’s balance
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Of Singapore Airlines Prepared by: Mai El Haddad‚ Siyuan Wu‚ Wenyan Tang and Talisa Maulgue TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction........................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Overview of the industry............................................................................................................................................... 2 Singapore Airlines ...........
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1. Threat of New Entrants - The easier it is for new companies to enter the industry‚ the more cutthroat competition there will be. Factors that can limit the threat of new entrants are known as barriers to entry. Some examples include: • Existing loyalty to major brands • Incentives for using a particular buyer (such as frequent shopper programs) • High fixed costs • Scarcity of resources • High costs of switching companies • Government restrictions or legislation Power of Suppliers
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jacob stevens P R I S O N S O F T H E S TAT E L E S S The Derelictions of UNHCR T here are currently over 20 million people ‘of concern’ to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Just over half of those are internally displaced or stateless‚ with 8 million having fled across an international border. Established in 1950‚ unhcr was charged by the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees with the protection of their interests: full political and economic rights in
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Adel Dosmagambetova Maslow`s hierarchy There are always some points when we are talking about service and especially hospitality industry. When we serve our product‚ what our customers expect from us is our main purpose to provide. The company has to correlate the ability of their service and the expectations of their customers. They measure their product and customers` needs. (Anton & Petouhoff 1996)There are no doubts that matching both sides expectation we can provide satisfaction for
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KFA was an airline for people with a taste for luxury. While its astronomical fares pushed it out of the bounds of the country’s biggest consumer section - the middle class - the airline’s in-flight service standards were set too high to maintain for a long time . Fliers were treated to expensive wine‚ quality food and best entertainment facilities even on domestic‚ short distance flights. The airline staff‚ till the time they got their salaries‚ were among the best paid in the country
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An Airbus A380 plane operated by Singapore Airlines was forced to make an emergency landing in Azerbaijan due to loss of cabin pressure. The plane was flying from London to Singapore and had 467 passengers and 27 crew members on board. The airline said that oxygen masks were deployed and the aircraft landed "uneventfully" at the Baku airport. It said that none of the passengers or crew was injured and that it was investigating what caused the problem. Nathan Phelps‚ an electrical supervisor from
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Case Study > Data Warehousing Continental Airlines I. Executive Summary Table of Contents I II III IV V Executive Summary The Decision to Invest Implementation New Business Strategies ROI 2 4 6 9 19 20 Technical Appendix A Continental’s comeback from “Worst to First” is an airline industry legend. Now the company is engaged in a new initiative to move from “First to Favorite.” To support this ambitious initiative‚ Continental tapped into its Enterprise Data Warehouse and expanded it
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Emirates Airlines is one of the leading airlines in the industry. It has maintained many sources of competitive advantage in terms of cost and uniqueness which had led to a cost advantage and differentiation advantage. Although cost advantage and differentiation advantage are mutually exclusive‚ Emirates Airlines was able to sustain both. As for the competitive scope‚ the company can have either a broad target or a narrow target. Most probably Emirates Airlines is favouring the broad target because
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