working for Continental Airlines in the year 1994. It’s unfortunate that the above description couldn’t be rightly called an exaggeration of how awful Continental’s situation was at that time because it actually accurately depicts it. Founded over more than 80 years ago as Verney Speedlines‚ Continental’s pioneers Walter T. Varney and his partner Louis Mueller would probably turn in their graves if they ever lived to see the state that their creation is in. Most would look at Continental and would
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case case Continental Airlines: One Company’s Flight to Success In the last decade‚ Continental Airlines has had a spotty track record. The airline twice filed for bankruptcy‚ realized diminished performance culminating in a $613 million loss in 1994‚ and was ranked dead last in industry indicators such as on-time performance among the major carriers. During these years‚ employees at Continental had undergone several series of layoffs and withstood both wage cuts and delayed wage increases in
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Case Study > Data Warehousing Continental Airlines I. Executive Summary Table of Contents I II III IV V Executive Summary The Decision to Invest Implementation New Business Strategies ROI 2 4 6 9 19 20 Technical Appendix A Continental’s comeback from “Worst to First” is an airline industry legend. Now the company is engaged in a new initiative to move from “First to Favorite.” To support this ambitious initiative‚ Continental tapped into its Enterprise Data Warehouse and expanded it
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Continental Airlines Memo To: Lawrence Kellner From: Date: Re: The purpose of this memorandum is to address the profitability issues at Continental Airlines and to estimate the costs for 2009 to forecast the future outlook of the company. To address these issues‚ I used regression analysis to observe what effect the 11% reduction in flying capacity would have on the firm’s future operating costs. I also used the results from the regression analysis to verify the costs that‚ if reduced
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Continental airlines case The biggest challenge that the continental Airlines is grappling with is with regards to their operational efficiency. Their previous decision of oursourcing key functions like reservations‚ payroll and EDS were causing a delay in flow of information thus hindering data based decision making in the company. Most decision thus were being made not by what data said but by the “hunch” or “intuition” which often proved wrong. Lack of real time data‚ complex system of booking
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their grievance by using the toll-free and personal voicemail. * Bethune tied in performance appraisals with incentives. * Employees were provided with the proper resources to achieve goals. Q3: To ensure that a continental airline improves on performance over next decade‚ continuing employee recognition would be one of the priorities on the list. Employee satisfaction plays a large role in ensuring they are following all policies procedures and in addition providing great
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Introduction Southwest Airlines is one of the largest domestic carriers in the United States‚ with over 3400 flights every day from 64 domestic destinations. Since 2011‚ Southwest Airlines is the airline that “carries the most domestic passengers of any US airline” ("Scheduled passengers carried"‚ 2011). The major factor that contributes to the success of Southwest Airlines and makes it different from the other airlines is its approach in designing and managing the processes. Measuring capacity
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Cases in Financial Reporting Continental Airlines‚ Inc - Leases Anderson‚ John Armanini‚ Nathan Avery‚ Sarah Hacker‚ Matthew Adkins‚ Lindsay To: Larry Tomassini From: Group 6 Subject: Case Study #3 – Continental Airlines‚ Inc. - Leases Date: February 22‚ 2011 This memo contains a lease analysis of the case titled: Continental Airlines‚ Inc - Leases. All numbers contained in this memo are in millions. D. i. Rental Expense (Aircraft Equipment) $896 Rental
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Continental Airlines Inc. Analysis Strategic Management Vision Statement Continental Airlines Inc. seeks to lead its industry in superior customer service‚ innovative technology‚ employee satisfaction‚ and environmental advances‚ at home and abroad. Mission Statement At Continental Airlines Inc.‚ we strive to obtain excellent customer service and satisfaction through technological advances in on-line bookings and e-ticket purchases. We have strict security measures to ensure our
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To: MBA731‚ Prof. Carlstrom Franklin University From: Kristie Bowman Subject: Gate Turnaround at Southwest Airlines Date: February 27‚ 2013 Business Brief Capacity planning is a necessary function of an organization to ensure that the highest rate of output is reached through the current processes taking place within an organization. These strategically defined processes must have the ability to provide flexibility to meet future capacity demand‚ whether due to opportunity growth
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