INTRODUCTIONS EasyJet was founded by Haji-Loannou in 1994. EasyJet‚ the company‚ is a low cost airline‚ looking to undercut traditional carriers that were already known and established in the industry. Originally‚ the company ran its operations absolutely on direct phone sales. In April 1998‚ EasyJet went online. It was a shaky start but one that would grow into a stable foundation. Since its launch‚ the site had taken more than 800‚000 bookings by March 2000. By September 2000‚ 85% of total
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After establishing a unique business model in the airline industry‚ Southwest has had its fair share of imitators. Yet none of these efforts at reproducing the success of Southwest have reached expectations. There are many reasons why imitators of Southwest have struggled so much but one of the biggest is the success of Southwest’s human resource management. Southwest is able to pay its employees less than the other major airlines yet get more production out of them. This is due to Southwest’s family
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Introduction This report will study the airline easyJet‚ one of the best low cost airlines in Europe; it will explain how easyjet use the right tools to succeed in the European market‚ using the best strategies. It will analyse this process with the use of PEST and SWOT‚ wich are two tools used for studying the company internally and externally. It will study easyjet’s key issues such as the relationship with business passengers‚ the various ways how it protects the environment and how
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concluded through a PESTLE analysis that the expected rise in Nordic GDP will affect the passenger traffic positively whereas the future increasing oil prices were found to impact especially the low-cost-carriers negatively. The competition in the airline industry was found fierce particularly because of the success of the low-cost-carriers Ryanair and Norwegian but the focus of SAS on business travellers reduces the competitive rivalry. As a consequence of this focus SAS was concluded to be stuck-in-the-middle
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Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Case Study 2 (Fly – by – Night Airlines) Introduction Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 4 4 6 7 8 10 10 11 12 13 15 15 15 4.0 Conclusion and Recommendation 15 5.0 Bibliography 16 6.0 Declaration by Student 17 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This assignment consists of two case studies‚ the Simpson and Selph Ltd and the Fly – by – Nights Airlines. Case Study 1: The Simpson and Selph Ltd‚ a small carpet manufacturing
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Executive summary We have analyzed the existing booking policy of TransAtlantic Airlines and identified potential cost saving. The implementation of the suggested new booking policy would lead to reduction of total expected costs per flight on average by £8‚100. Furthermore‚ the new policy would increase the predictability of total costs per flight. With 90% confidence new costs will be in a range £750 and £4‚800 as compared to the current range of £1‚900 to £20‚300. The comparative description
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page 5 Operating cash flows page 5 NPV page 5 5. Evaluation page 6-7 6. Appendix Introduction Fly-by-night Airlines is a major commercial air carrier offering passenger service between most large cities in the US. Its profitable route is between Los Angeles and New York and the firm is considering replacing its old PJ-1 planes to PJ-2 or PJ-3 planes. Currently
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What is the crisis? On the night of 31 October 2000‚ Singapore Airlines Flight SQ006‚ at 11:18 P.M. local time (Taipei)‚ took off from Chiang Kai-Shek Airport (Taipei) heading to Los Angeles (Marketeer‚ 2002). Before the taking off‚ the weather was enormously terrible due to Typhoon Xangasane (Christian Dougoud‚ 2012). There were 159 passengers and 20 crew members on the flight. The pilots were allowed to take the plane off along the 5L (left) runway‚ because 5R (right) runway was under construction
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Southwest Airlines Leadership at Southwest has grown the company. The leader has a strong personality and led the company to a great position. Herb Kelleher ’s business decisions and out of the ordinary and have had success beyond belief. Employee empowerment is needed to make any successful company. At Southwest Airlines‚ the empowerment has led the employees to lead themselves. They take pride in the actions. It allows them to get other involved and makes them more successful in the tasks
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JetBlue added E190 to its fleet. By late 2006‚ JetBlue like other airlines‚ faced softening demand and higher costs due to increasing fuel prices. Barger played a large role in the airline’s decision at the end of 2006 to slow its rate of growth by reducing its purchase commitments for new planes. In light of the operational challenges JetBlue faced in Feb 2007‚ as well as the unabated rise in fuel costs‚ Barger realized that the airline would need to take further steps to slow its rate of growth. Given
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