SWOT analysis of Delta Airlines Vaughn College of Aeronautics Georgi Teofilov December 15th 2012 Introduction Having been founded on May 30th 1924 Delta airlines is one of the only 4 legacy carriers still left in the aviation industry since the 1978 airline deregulation act. It is a major United States airline and its headquarters are in Atlanta‚ Georgia. Delta airlines operates 5‚000 flights every day of which are both domestic and international. Delta airlines hub is located
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Depreciation at Delta Air Lines and Singapore Airlines Acct 531 – Intermediate Finance Acct 1 SECTION 1 – 13WQ Instructor: John V. Merle‚ MBA February 27‚ 2013 Emma Waage Roarke Stone Tim Gould Introduction Depreciation expense is the way that the use of an asset is matched with the revenue that is generated from the asset on the income statement during the time period being reported. Each asset used in a business has a useful life as disclosed by the company’s depreciation
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Delta Air Lines‚ Inc #Case 2 General Description Delta was founded by C. E. Woolman‚ an agricultural extension agent. As a top company in the Airline industry Delta Air Lines specialize in domestic and international flights. The general business activity and principal products or commercial enterprise of Delta Air Lines are categorized as being part of the Airline Industry‚ The key to Delta’s success was its focus on human relations and has always differentiated itself from other airlines by its
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Critical Analysis of Delta Air Lines‚ Inc. Financial Reporting and Disclosure Table of Contents Description of Delta Air Lines‚ Inc. Background‚ Industry‚ Market 3 Financial Reporting Similarities and Differences 4-5 Direction of Disclosure Three Year Comparison 5-6 Disclosure Techniques 7-8 Financial Derivatives 8-9 Financial Statement Analysis Three Year Ratio Analysis 10-13 Disclosure of Note Items Application of GAAP 13-18
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Discussion Q’s Why might the companies be using different depreciation methods? Average age of Delta’s aircraft = 8.8yrs; Average age of Sing Aircraft = 5.1yrs. The useful life of an airplane may be much less for Singapore since one of their competitive advantages is flying a modern fleet. How could you argue for Delta changing its depreciation assumptions? Against? Perhaps Delta changes its assumptions because technologically newer aircraft now tend to last longer than technologically older
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DELTA AIR LINES‚ INC. Consolidated Balance Sheets | | | | | | | | | | | | |December 31‚ | | |(in millions) | |2008 | | |2007 | | |ASSETS
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“Keep Climbing‚ Delta.” Executive Summary: How does the price of crude oil affect an airline’s profits? How can Delta respond to possible loss of profits from fluctuating oil prices? The airline mergers and consolidations over the past decade have shifted competitive focus from increasing market share to obtaining and preserving profitability. One expense over which airlines have little control is the price of oil. The volatility of its price is partially due to geopolitical uncertainty
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Domestic Environment – Delta Airlines Business Theory August 15‚ 2013 Domestic Environment – Delta Airlines Delta Airlines has 70 years of experience and is part of the airline industry. The domestic environment of Delta Airlines is the United States. The airline has grown into one of the largest global airlines in the world. Each year they help over 160 million travelers in reaching their destinations ("Century of flight‚" 2013). Delta Airlines started in 1924 in the
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Case Delta Beverage Group‚ Inc. History The Delta Beverage Group is a bottling and canning company from the United States. Delta had some very strong brand names‚ like Pepsi and Mountain Dew‚ included in their franchises. Around 1988‚ a price war occurred and Delta suffered from compressed margins. About a year later situation became critical and a new management team from was hired. The new management stopped the fall in prices‚ the decline in market share and increased margins by changing
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1. In April 2008‚ Delta Airlines announced its intention to merge with and absorb Northwest Airlines‚ formerly known as Northwest Orient. Delta Airlines had already grown through the acquisition of Northeast in 1972 and Western Airlines in 1986. Northwest was also a large airline‚ having absorbed Republic Airlines‚ itself a merger of North Central Airlines‚ Southern‚ and later Hughes Air west. Republic had an important hub in Memphis‚ as did Federal Express. The result would be global airlines with
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