Marketing Principles Assignment one Air Asia Section 101 Ibrahim K. Al-Zuwaid 200800196 Company Case Q. What are the micro and macro environmental factors that have contributed to the early success of Air Asia? Micro factors: 1. Fernandes (the CEO of Air Asia) contributed heavily to the success of Air Asia. He was seen working alongside with the employees as a baggage hander to get to know his staff members and to listen to the customer’s wants and needs. Mr. Fernandes
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Airways Limited (MAL) on 12 October 1937. It was a joint initiative of the Ocean Steamship Company of Liverpool‚ the Straits Steamship of Singapore and Imperial Airways which led to a proposal to the Colonial Straits Settlement government to run an air service between Penang and Singapore. On 2 April 1947‚ MAL took to the skies with its first commercial flight as the national airline. Fuelled by a young and dynamic team of visionaries‚ the domestic carrier turned into an international airline in
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Air Asia: Strategic management report Intoduction Air Asia was founded in 1993 and has since grown to be one of the biggest airlines in the world. It initially operated in Malaysia and currently operates in over 25 countries (Ricart and Wang 2005). It began operations in October 1996‚ operating out of Kuala Lumpur as its central location (Ricart and Wang 2005). The airline was bought by Tune Air in 2001 for one ringgit‚ the equivalent of 0.26 US cents‚ at a time when the company had $10.5 million
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Air Asia Background AirAsia is one of the award winning and largest low fare airlines in the Asia expanding rapidly since 2001. With a fleet of 72 aircrafts‚ AirAsia flies to over 61 domestic and international destinations with 108 routes‚ and operates over 400 flights daily from hubs located in Malaysia‚ Thailand‚ and Indonesia. Today‚ AirAsia has flown over 55 million guests across the region and continues to create more extensive route network through its associate companies. AirAsia believes
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Overview This study discusses the four "Perspectives" specified in Kaplan’s and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard framework‚ focusing on their implementation at GTE4). Subsequently the efficiency of Garret Walker’s and Randall MacDonald’s internal communication strategy is evaluated and in the final chapter a summarizing conclusion is provided. Introduction In 1996‚ J. Randall MacDonald‚ Executive Vice President of Human Resources at the GTE Corporation was facing the challenge to create an HR strategy
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Balance scorecard Definition Balance scorecard also known as BSC. BSC was developed by Robert Kaplan and Norton in the early 1990s. Balance scorecard comes from two words namely balance and scorecards. Balance mean a balance between financial and non-financial performance‚ short-term performance and long-term performance‚ the performance of which is internal and external. When the scorecard also mean that the card is used to measure one’s performance score. At first scorecard used to measure performance
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over long periods of time. AirAsia approaches to prevent this occurring and to generate continued growth is to frequently re-assess its strategy so that they build strong businesses in the attractive industries of the future Company overview - Air Asia Berhad AirAsia’s leading airline was established with the dream that everyone can fly. Since 2001‚ the company has swiftly broken travel norms around the globe. It has risen to become the world’s best. With a route network that spans through more
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there is a huge scope of growth for AirAsia in Asia. The huge population with rise in middle class and a lot of disposable income together with the absence of affordable forms of transportation post a high demand for AirAsia as a low cost airline. It is also anticipated that due to the rapid urbanization trends the air travel market will continue to grow at a fast pace. The geographical structure of Asia which is archipelago will also contribute to the air transport. Example: between East and West Malaysia
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low-cost carrier. 1.0 EXTERNAL ANALYSIS 1.1 Industry Identification AirAsia belongs to the airline industry. Competition in the airline industry is very intense and is growing rapidly together with the increase in demand for budget fares across Asia. The different airlines are making use of several strategies to compete with one another in the airline industry and it is crucial for airline companies to identify their competitive advantages so as to be able to achieve profits and brand equity globally
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costs. Consumer confidence dwindled‚ causing a drop in up to 70 percent in global airline load and a 25 percent drop in air traffic (Travel Research Ltd‚ 2001). This
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