Opportunities Europe ’s bloodbath (again) 1. Recessionary conditions suit true Low Cost Carriers best. The global economic recession has handed Ryanair and similar carriers near-perfect operating conditions. As Ryanair explains‚ "this recession has encouraged passengers to become much more price sensitive which is why they are switching to Ryanair ’s low fares and unbeatable customer service over all other competitors". Ryanair expects a 15-20% reduction in average fares this year to around
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COMPANY PROFILE Ryanair Holdings (Ryanair or ‘the company’) operates low fare scheduled passenger airline serving short haul‚ point to point routes between Ireland‚ the UK‚ and Continental Europe‚ as well as Morocco. It is headquartered in Dublin‚ Ireland and employs about 8‚560 people. The company recorded revenues of E3‚629.5 million ($4‚796.7 million) during the financial year ended March 2011 (FY2011)‚ an increase of 21.5% over FY2010.The operating profit of the company was E488.2 million ($645
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2 | Analysis | 3-7 | Problems | 7 | Solutions | 8 | Conclusion | 9 | References | 10 | Word Count: 2061 Introduction Ryanair was founded in 1985 by the Ryan family‚ which was headed by Tony Ryan. It was the first budget airline in Europe‚ modeled after the successful US carrier‚ Southwest Airlines. It was founded to provide scheduled passenger airline services between Ireland and the UK‚ as an alternative to then state monopoly carrier‚ Aer Lingus. At the beginning‚ Ryanair was a full
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Competitor analysis While taking a closer look at the competitors in the European airline market it is visible the there are two main groups of airlines. One group consists airlines with a low cost strategy‚ and the other group are the mainstream carriers. This last group exists of a few companies who have severe problems with the structurally sickness of this industry. Only Lufthansa made a net profit. BA‚ Air France-KLM and Scandinavian Air Systems all made severe losses‚ due to declining traffic
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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 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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which is focused on a S.W.A.T. analysis on Ryanair‚ was fully based on internet web sites. For full information‚ refer to the bibliography at the end of he report. 3. Findings 3.1 Strengths a. Leadership in the low-cost sector • “Ryanair was Europe’s original low fares airline and is still Europe’s largest low fares carrier. Currently the company carries over 35m. passengers on 325 low fare routes across 21 European countries”( Ryanair). As a matter of fact Ryanair is currently the largest low-cost
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Ryanair Case Analysis 1. Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Substitute: In this industry‚ there are high substitution power because if one airline decides to raise prices then customers are going to switch to a cheaper airline company. The majority of passengers are price sensitive and have the option of taking other forms of transportation such as the rail or ferry. Customers are willing to travel longer if they can pay for a cheaper fare. The round fare for ferry and rail is 55
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RYANAIR Introduction This essay is initially going to analyse the LCC (Low Cost Carrier) industry and subsequently focus on Ryanair‚ the world ’s largest low cost international carrier (figure 1). The first part of the assignment is going to apply Porter ’s five forces to the above-mentioned industry‚ then it will look at how the company competes in such environment‚ referring to Porter ’s generic competitive strategies. Finally it will analyse how the company delivers on these competitive
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Ryanair Internal analysis Resources and capabilities In 2006 Ryanair was in ownership of a total of 103 Boeing 737 aircraft‚ and also a set order to increase this number by 138 in the next six years. Currently its fleet flies out from 127 destinations. Ryanair replaced its old fleet with new more efficient and environmentally friendly aircraft and has the youngest fleet of any major airline with an age of just 2.4 years. The new aircraft were effective in increasing efficiency as there was no
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