IndiGo Airlines – A Case study in International Business Strategy The right thing to do is also the smart thing to do The success of Indigo is a mix of a clear brand promise of "on time" and supported with slick branding and signage‚ smart technology support and a passionate and young work force who multi-task. About Indigo IndiGo is India’s largest airline with a market share of 29.5 per cent as of June‚2013 as well as the country’s largest low fare carrier. IndiGo is the fastest growing
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Cost leadership While the other airlines in the industry purchased rivals‚ flew different models of planes and tried to offer costly services‚ Indigo stuck to single model planes with a reputation of being a no frills airline. Indigo has stuck to operating the world’s largest selling single-aisle aircraft‚ the Airbus A320. This has helped the airlines to not just survive the economic slump in the industry but infact to post profits year-on-year end. Capacity utilization of IndiGo airlines fleet
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Singapore Airlines’ strategy Singapore Airlines is positioned as a premium carrier with high levels of innovation and excellent levels of service‚ and has made a strategic choice of giving priority to profitability over size. The internal organizational practices outlined in this paper‚ such as continuous people development and rigorous service design are key aspects of operationalizing and sustaining this positioning and strategic choice. At the corporate level‚ SIA follows a strategy of
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an extension of probation and 5% leave. Senior managers at SIA believe that everyone‚ no matter how senior‚ has a training and development plan with clear goals. The famous ‘‘Singapore Girl’’ undergoes training for 15 weeks‚ longer than any other airline and almost twice as long as the industry average of 2 months. Thistraining includes not only functional skills such as food and beverage serving and safety training‚ but also soft skills of personal interaction‚ personal poise‚ grooming and deportment
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Kelleher at Southwest Airlines “You shouldn’t get too heady about anything‚ because the greatest thing you do is not big in the universe. It’s not saying it doesn’t matter. It matters all the more. You’re fighting against nothingness. But you don’t give up. Therein lies the heroism.” -Kelleher (p.156) Although many have a great respect for Southwest Airlines and their disciplined business decisions. I have a greater respect for their “family like” environment and how they encourage their
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American Airlines Do you believe American Airlines has the right to rescind a conditional offer? Why? I believe that American Airlines has no right to rescind its decision despite the applicants having excluded their medical status. For a conditional job offer‚ an individual gets the job only when all the established restrictions are fulfilled by an applicant. Until the recruiting body is satisfied and assessed a prospective employee for all the requirements‚ one cannot claim to have acquired the
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Airline Catering What is airline catering? Airline catering is a business that provides food service at a remote site‚ specifically airline companies. It involves providing meals for passengers on board an aircraft as well as for restaurants situated at airport terminals. Modern airports have a variety of food and beverage outlets to cater to the increasing number of air passengers. Catering to passengers en route is normally contracted out to a flight catering unit of a reputed hotel or to a
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Southwest Airlines’ Corporate Strategy & Control System Southwest Airlines became one of the most admired airlines in the world based on their dedication to their customers and the corporate strategies their leadership instituted. Their leadership created a different corporate culture that CEO Herb Kelleher and his company are devoted to the philosophy of putting employees first (Govindarajan‚ pg. 115). In doing so‚ Southwest was able to instill a management control system that relied on
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Professor: Elena Vidal (EV) Moustafa Elkholy November 4th‚ 2014 BPL 5100 Case Write-ups (Southwest Airlines) 1. What do you see as the issues the company is facing? The distance between the employees (The managers and the top management) has been increased. Before the leadership change‚ the top management was very close to the employees. That change causes a radical change in the company’s culture. Southwest experienced an increase in the fuel and wages cost. Southwest failed
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Wendy Galindo Southwest Airlines I. Introduction: Southwest airlines performance in recent years has been outstanding compared to the rest of the airline industry. The company has maintained a stable increase of income‚ having year over year profitability since 1973‚ despite the fact that industry where it competes is characterized by being vulnerable to the recent downward economics and an intense rivalry between competitors. Southwest is one of the US largest airline carriers in terms of domestic
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