Case Study: Air Asia Identify the competitive advantages of Air Asia as a low cost carrier. Air Asia has a number of competitive advantages as a low cost carrier that fall into the following general categories; low cost operations‚ efficiency of operations‚ proven business model and management expertise and finally a distinctive corporate culture. Low cost operations: Air Asia has gone to great lengths to ensure all of their operational costs are kept to an absolute minimum‚ and have passed
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1. INTRODUCTION TO AIR ASIA 1. COMPANY BACKGROUND AirAsia Berhad was established in 1993 and began operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by government owned conglomerate‚ DRB Hicom. On 2 December 2001‚ the heavily in debted airline was bought by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes’s company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit (about USD 0.26 at the time) with USD 11 million (MYR 40 million) worth of debts. Fernandes turned the company around
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product design; as it keeps changing once in four weeks. (The Economists‚ 2005) http://www.studymode.com/essays/Expansion-Of-The-Spanish-Clothing-Retailer-353870.html Executive Summary The main goal of this report is to analyze the environment how Zara wil be marketed and launched in India.
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Version 1.0 Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats Analysis for AirAsia 1.0 Strengths Ø Air Asia has a very strong management team with strong links with governments and airline industry leaders. This is partly contributed by the diverse background of the executive management teams which consists of industry experts and ex-top government officials. For example‚ Shin Corp (formerly owned by the family of former Thai Prime Minister - Thaksin Shinawatra) holds a 50% stake in Thai AirAsia
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ORGANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT Analysis of the factors in the macro environment that have major impact to a company and assessment of the steps taken by the company to overcome the problems. Case study : Maybank Malaysia By AhmadRawi The writer can be contacted at: scholars.assist@gmail.com By AhmadRawi The writer can be contacted at: scholars.assist@gmail.com INTRODUCTION Strategic management experts have stated that in order to achieve a competitive advantage‚ a company needs
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Retrieved from http://www.travelweeklyweb.com/book-airasia-by-sms/2469 CII KPMG Indian Aviation Report (2012). KPMG Aviation Report. http://www.kpmg.com/IN/en/Press%20Release/Press-Release-Indian-Aviation-Report.pdf Air Asia India (2014). Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirAsia_India Air Asia announces two new routes (September 11‚ 2014). Business Standard. http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/airasia-india-announces-two-new-routes-plans-to-add-5-more-aircrafts-before-november-114072401124_1
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SWOT ANALYSIS FOR AIR ASIA Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats Analysis for AirAsia Strengths The first phase of the swot analysis is the strengths analysis for Air Asia. There are some unique strengths of Air Asia that others company could not defeat them. First and foremost‚ Air Asia has a very cooperative and strong management team with strong connections with the government and the airline industry leaders.This is partly contributed by the diverse background of
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Company overview: Air Asia After acquiring Air Asia from the Malaysian government in 2002‚ Tony Fernandes completely altered the business model of its previous owners and re-established the company with just 3 air planes. Owing debts of about 11 million U.S‚ this move was very risky; however by offering low cost prices‚ the company was able to attract sufficient travellers. After acquisition‚ 5 years later Air Asia became renowned globally as the least expensive airline in terms of cost per seat
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Abstract The main purpose of the report is to conduct the independent analysis of the recent trends and development of Air Asia (low cost carrier model) in the current economic condition. And this report clearly explains about the methodological approach used to find‚ select and analyses the data. Also this report provides a brief outline about the Air Asia. In addition this report exactly speaks about how they sustain in their industry by using the recent trends and modern technology. Introduction
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SWOT analysis of AirAsia Strengths Firstly‚ Air Asia has indeed a strong management team. This is clearly known as it has very strong links with the governements and airline industry leaders.This is partly contributed by the diverse background of the executive management teams which consists of industry experts and ex-top government officials. For example‚ Shin Corp (formerly owned by the family of former Thai Prime Minister - Thaksin Shinawatra) holds a 50% stake in Thai AirAsia. This has
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