LO 1: Understand how Onboard Passenger Operations are coordinated. Briefly define: ‘Onboard Passenger Facilities’ AND ‘Levels of Service.’ On every aircraft passenger facilities and services are provided in order to satisfy ones customers. Let’s take a deeper look on the term onboard passenger facilities‚ these are systems install a board an aircraft by airlines for the comfort and well-being of its passengers. So things like providing meals for long haul flights‚ headsets‚ pillows‚ water‚ duty
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additional recognition and market share is consistent with owner Tony Fernades’ company goal; however‚ the strategy changes required to be a successful long-haul airline significantly differ from and conflict with its current resource base (i.e. aircraft types‚ hubs‚ employee skills) and core competencies and capabilities (i.e. cost and efficiency optimization/utilization) as a low-cost carrier (LCC) airline. Analysis The airline industry as a whole is quite competitive with multiple players and
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focus on offering alternative choices to customers by serving "underserved and large metropolitan areas that have had high average fares" (JetBlue‚ 2005). As a result of these strategies‚ the company has one of the highest load factors (percentage of aircraft seating capacity actually utilized in a given period) in the United States. 2) What business risks does JetBlue face that may threaten its ability to satisfy stockholder expectations? What are some examples of control activities that the company
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its title as “The World Lowest Cost Airline‚” and was also one of the world’s most profitable airlines. AirAsia was still able to earn 4% ROA during the recession in 2008. Between 2002 and 2009‚ AirAsia had expanded from 2 aircrafts and 200‚000 passenger journeys to 79 aircrafts and 11.8 million passengers. Problem The focus of our research is to determine if AirAsia should expand its long haul business and to what extent AirAsia and AirAsia X should be integrated operationally. Currently‚ AirAsia
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airlines merged Southeast Airlines to create the fourth largest U.S. carrier in which it inherited both an aging fleet of Boeing 737-300 aircraft and Stephen Ruth. As the new president of the airline‚ Stephen’s first concern is to create a financially solid company since it is a common presumption for airline industries that maintenance costs rise with the age of aircrafts. He noticed that there have been significant differences in the reported B727-300 maintenance costs both in the airframe and engine
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calling for assistance to towing equipment to a designated location. It cause problems; because‚ there were not enough equipment tow vehicles to support the Group; aircrafts had to wait for equipment to towed after being used by another aircraft. This caused the aircraft scheduler’s frustration as they had to stagger aircraft mission; because‚ equipment was not being delivered on time. I was tasked to generate ideals and provide a plan of action.
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According to the analyzed information‚ the most hazardous job in aviation between the years 2010 and 2013 is ramp personnel. These results discredit my initial hypothesis about aircraft mechanics have the most hazardous profession in aviation. It is no astonishment to discover that ramp personnel are most frequently injured. There certainly is a sizeable amount of risk involved with that particular job due to the hectic environment
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Fleet Planning and Aircraft Selection Process INTRODUCTION In this lesson we will review the Fleet Planning and Aircraft Selection Process. LEARNING OUTCOMES Be able to describe the fleet planning process and discuss the importance of selecting the right aircraft to meet the carrier’s objectives. Fleet Planning One of the most difficult decisions airline managements must make is whether to buy new or used aircraft and what type to purchase. Factors that have an effect on this fleet
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its suppliers have "now fully harmonized all commitments to the program’s schedule." 2. Current Strategy Since July 2004‚ Bombardier is working on new family of aircrafts called CSeries‚ which is capable of carrying between 100 and 135 passengers depending on model. The focused market is airlines that owned old generations of aircraft within the same capacity needed to be replaced. The CSeries family will be specifically optimized to operate on regional routes by meeting the capacity of regional
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everyone knew that he was‚ many people were scared to fly with him. Holland claimed that his signature high-pitch-angle climbs would pop rivets out the aging aluminum skin and by the end of his career he becomes even more reckless‚ he would push the aircraft beyond its limits. A couple of years before this he flew the same way over his daughter’s softball game and made a dangerous 70 degree turn and the co-pilot had to help him or else the plane was going to fall out the air on top of the campus. Air
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