COLOGNE BUSINESS SCHOOL (CBS) Case Study: Ryanair The future of the leading low fares airline Term paper for Transnational Management Summer Semester 2014/2015 Lecturer: XXX Anton Wischnewski BA12 in International Business / International Trade Student-No. XXX Table of Contents 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................2 2 Overview of Ryanair ..........................................................................
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Instructor’s Manual 368 © Pearson Education Limited 2005 CASE TEACHING NOTES Ryanair – The Low-Fares Airline Eleanor O’Higgins 1. Introduction Ryanair was the first budget airline in Europe‚ modelled after the successful US carrier‚ Southwest Airlines. The case offers students the opportunity to evaluate the strategy of Ryanair against the backdrop of the European airline industry and the burgeoning budget sector. Business students at all levels enjoy this case and relate to it‚ since air
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transportation for this route. Ryanair recognized the profitability of the Dublin-London route‚ which was the only route that was profitable for Aer Lingus. While the direction of British Airways and Aer Lingus‘business models diversified worldwide‚ Ryanair saw an opportunity to streamline its costs by specializing on this specific route. Ryanair introduced a low cost‚ unrestricted fare‚ which undercut BA and Aer Lingus by £110 per ticket‚ while still focusing on first rate service. Ryanair was able to offer
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Case study on low cost airlines (RYANAIR) Preliminary questions: 1. What are your first impressions regarding Ryanair? 2. How would you characterize its marketing strategy? Ryanair (ISEQ: RYA‚ LSE: RYA‚ NASDAQ: RYAAY) is an Irish low cost airline‚ with headquarters at Dublin Airport and its largest operational bases at Dublin Airport and London Stansted Airport. Ryanair operates 182 aircraft on 729 routes across Europe and North Africa from its 31 bases.[1] The airline has been characterised
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Introduction Ryanair is one of the most profitable low-cost and low-fare airlines in the world. Even though it was merely bankruptcy in 1991‚ it could stand up and become very successful by 1999. An issues was what led Ryanair to huge losses in 1991‚ how did it re-gain its position‚ and what lay ahead in the next century. Analysis Prior to 1991‚ Ryanair had suffered from continuous losses from 1985 to 1989. The first reason that put it into this situation was that it tried to position itself
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Ryanair – the low-fares airlines Case Study By Sid Hegde Ryanair – the low-fares airline Table of Contents Q1. Why has Ryanair been successful thus far?..................................................................3 Q2. Is Ryanair ’s strategy sustainable?..................................................................................4 Q3. Would you recommend any changes to Ryanair ’s approach?.......................................5 Q4. Should Ryanair continue to pursue the Aer
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Task A- Introduction Ryanair Europe ’s Leading Low Fares Airline is an Irish airline with headquarters in Dublin and its biggest operational base at London Stansted Airport in the UK. It is Europe ’s largest low-cost carrier. As of 31 July 2007‚ Ryanair operates 516 routes across 26 countries from 26 bases. Ryanair has been characterised by rapid expansion‚ a result of the deregulation of the air industry in Europe in 1997. Ryanair is the third largest airline in Europe in terms of passenger numbers
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In April 1986‚ the Ryan brothers announce that Ryanair will offer service between Dublin and London‚ a route dominated by Aer Lingus and British Airways. AL and BA offer a range of tickets with varying restrictions and varying classes of service‚ but the least expensive‚ unrestricted round-trip fares were priced at IL208‚ far higher than the IL98 that Ryan Air announced. Ryanair’s strategy to launch a single far no restriction ticket at such a low price will gain market share quickly as well as possibly
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Ryanair was founded in 1985 by the Ryan family to provide scheduled passenger airline services between Ireland and the UK‚ as an alternative to the then state monopoly carrier‚ Aer Lingus. It started out a full service conventional airline‚ with two classes of seating and leasing three different types of aircraft. However despite growth in the passenger volumes financial problems were of a growing concern. In its fight to survive the airline went through a dramatic restyle to become Europe ’s first
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