provide airline’s operations include scheduled passenger and cargo services to 168 destinations in 42 countries worldwide‚ including codeshares and joint ventures‚ with a fleet of wide-body aircraft‚ consisting of Airbus A330‚ Airbus A340‚ Boeing 747 and Boeing 777 equipment. However the carrier has been looking to turn around its fortunes after making a loss in the first half of 2012. Also the carrier face other threats of high fuel costs and strike of cabin crew. The reason behind is mainly due
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Target market SW: low-cost airline; short-haul flights (US); offers about 3‚400 daily flights to 78 destinations in 39 states RYN: low-cost airline; short-haul flights(Europe); offers over 1‚500 scheduled short-haul flights per day serving approximately 160 airports. SIA: full-service airline; international travel‚ flies to 62 international destinations in 35 countries on six continents from its primary hub in Singapore. KFA: full-service - adding low-cost model（Kingfisher Red） during poor financial
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Type: Public On the web: http://www.southwest.com Employees: 34‚901 Employee growth: 0.5% Southwest Airlines will fly any plane‚ as long as it’s a Boeing 737‚ and let passengers sit anywhere they like‚ as long as they get there first. Sticking with what has worked‚ Southwest has expanded its low-cost‚ no-frills‚ no-reserved-seats approach to air travel throughout the US to serve almost 70 cities in some 37 states. Now among the leading US airlines‚ Southwest still stands as an inspiration for
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France. The two-hour flight served game and cream teas but was refused by passengers en route to England because of turbulence. * October 1919 – KLM Flight from London to Paris; first appearance of pre-packed airline meals. * 1930 - American Boeing Air Transport (a forerunner of United Airlines) recruited eight nurses as flight attendants‚ and therefore‚ became the first airline to employ stewardesses. Nurses were employed because airplanes at this time had unpressurised cabins and flew at relatively
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1 Why has Southwest been so much more successful than its competitors? From the start‚ Southwest had the advantage of cheaper startup cost of aircraft due to Boeing overproducing its Boeing 737. Southwest’s key strategy was cheapest ticket pricing. Their goal was to charge fares at all times that were below the cost of driving a car. Another key strategy was the 10 minute turnaround time which enabled the airline to generate higher revenue. The airline then later adopted the airline with the
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airplane as a whole. FAA AD 872121-08 mandated inspection of lap splices at fuselage stringer 4. This AD did not recognize the risk of failing to mandate inspections of all lap splices‚ and only mandated inspections of the known unsafe condition. Boeing Alert Service Bulletin 737-53A1039 proposed inspection of all 737 lap joints ––Service Bulletin was NOT mandated as an AD. Secondly‚ there was a lack of knowledge and experience in the area of corrosion detection and prevention. The maintenance crew
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Assignment Industry: Aeronautics Company: Snecma (FRA). Aerospace engines manufacturer. Implementation market: United States of America [pic] Table of contents Table of contents 3 1) Industry analysis (1000-1200 words) 4 a. Definition of the industry 4 b. Market trends in the last three years 5 c. Economic structure (pure competition‚ oligopoly‚ monopoly) 8 d. Basic business models (differentiation strategies‚ cost-leadership strategies‚ and
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airline alliance. It operates variants of a single aircraft type‚ all from the Boeing 737 Next Generation family‚ and its subsidiary WestJet Encore also operates the Bombardier Q400. The airline’s headquarters is located adjacent to the Calgary International Airport‚ and its largest hub‚ in terms of daily departures‚ is Toronto Pearson International Airport. (Wikipedia) As of August 29‚ 2013‚ it operated a fleet of 103 Boeing Next-Generation 737-600‚ 737-700 and 737-800 aircraft. Both the 737-700 and
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managing cost that the company has lose its money. A new management team is brought in to sort it out and re-launch as a “low fares or no frills” airline‚ closely modelling the Southwest Airlines model in the U.S. And in 1994‚ Ryanair bought its first Boeing 737 aircraft which carried over 1.5 million passengers. In 1995‚ Ryanair is the biggest passenger carrier on Dublin-London route‚ the largest Irish airline on every route being operate and carried 2.25 million passengers in the year (Harrison‚ 2002)
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deck extends along the entire length of the fuselage‚ with a width equivalent to a wide-body aircraft. This allows for an A380-800’s cabin with 478 square metres (5‚145.1 sq ft) of floor space; 49% more floor space than the next-largest airliner‚ the Boeing 747-400 with 321 square metres (3‚455.2 sq ft)‚ and provides seating for 525 people in a typical three-classconfiguration or up to 853 people in all-economy class configurations. The A380-800 has a design range of 15‚400 kilometres (8‚300 nmi; 9‚600 mi)
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