Dynamic Pricing in the Airline Industry R. Preston McAfee and Vera te Velde California Institute of Technology Abstract: Dynamic price discrimination adjusts prices based on the option value of future sales‚ which varies with time and units available. This paper surveys the theoretical literature on dynamic price discrimination‚ and confronts the theories with new data from airline pricing behavior. Correspondence to: R. Preston McAfee‚ 100 Baxter Hall‚ California Institute of Technology‚
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Company Chosen: British Airways Existing Line of Business: Aviation New Market: Indian Aviation Industry British Airways Future Indian Plans: British Airways global CEO Willie Walsh finds India to be one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world. Walsh‚ who was in Mumbai on September 3rd‚ 2010 to announce a code-share agreement with Kingfisher Airlines‚ says that despite the airline facing mounting competition from other international carriers operating in India‚ he is not worried
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In economics‚ a recession is a business cycle contraction‚ a general slowdown in economic activity. Macroeconomic indicators such as GDP‚ employment‚ investment spending‚ capacity utilization‚ household income‚ business profits‚ and inflation fall‚ while bankruptcies and the unemployment rate rise. Recessions generally occur when there is a widespread drop in spending (an adverse demand shock). This may be triggered by various events‚ such as a financial crisis‚ an external trade shock‚ an adverse supply
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second largest economy of the New York City. Immigration has had a strong impact over the Queens economy. Culturally this is the diverse populated borough of New York where around half of the population is consisting of foreign born residents. The airline industry is a major factor of the borough economy and is a main employer in the neighborhoods around JFK and LaGuardia airports. Health care and social assistance employment is also playing important role in Queens’s economy. Queens County has out-performed
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The U.S. airline industry has been in a chaotic state for a number of years. In 1993‚ a U.S. government report indicated that the industry had “Lost huge amounts of money in the past three years‚ and it has never made a sustained‚ substantial return on investment…” According to the Air Transport Association‚ the airline industry trade association‚ the loss from 1990 through 1994 was about $13 billion‚ while from 1995 through 2000‚ the airlines earned about $23 billion and then lost about $35 billion
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The Prisoners’ Dilemma in the airplane industry Games of Strategy Home Assignment Tamás Seres Introduction 3 The Prisoners’ Dilemma 3 An Oligopolistic market: 5 The Case Study 6 Conclusion 8 References: 8 Introduction In today’s world the Prisoners’ Dilemma is a common phenomenon in business‚ politics and in social life as well. This paper will analyze a real life example. It will describe the airplane manufacturing industry and their two giant manufacturers: Airbus
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CONTENTS PAGE 1. – Introduction_________________________p. 3 2. – Application__________________________p. 4 2.1. - Easy Jet profile__________________p. 4 2.2. - PESTEL Analysis__________________p. 4 2.3. - Porters Five Forces________________p. 5 2.4. – SWOT__________________________p. 7 3.0. - The Challenge_______________________p. 7 4.0. – Recommendation____________________p. 8 5.0. – References_________________________p. 8 1. - INTRODUCTION According to Boddy
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SUZLON Wind Energy in Agreement to Acquire Belgium’s Hansen Transmissions Pune‚ India / Munich‚ Germany Suzlon Wind Energy signed a definitive agreement for the strategic acquisition of Hansen Transmissions. Hansen Transmissions is a major wind turbine gearbox manufacturer with state of the art manufacturing facilities in Edegem and Lommel in Belgium. Suzlon gains technological leadership from the integration of research and development‚ design and production to evolve the next generation of
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income. Therefore‚ they will be more affordable to travel. 3. Occupation Employees who work in multinational company often travel to other countries for the business purpose could be the important customer in airline industry. 4. Population Highly populated country tends to utilize airline services more frequently. For instance‚ China has a larger market for travelling comparing with small country‚ such as Vietnam‚ Singapore and etc. 5. Gender Women are more influential power in planning a vacation
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I.J.E.M.S.‚ VOL.2(2) 2011: 71-80 ISSN 2229 -600X IMPACT OF RECESSION ON TOURISM INDUSTRY Sherwood College of Professional Management‚Lucknow ABSTRACT Tourism industry has contributed enormously in the flourishing graph of India ’s economy by attracting a huge number of both foreign and domestic tourists travelling for professional as well as holiday purpose. Terror threat‚ swine flu scare and hike in air fares and above all the great economic depression hit the tourism sector hard in 2009
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