Southwest Airlines 2008 Problem Identification: Will Southwest Airlines able to maintain its top position and level of customer satisfaction whilst expanding its business domain? SWOT Listing: Strength: * Attractive fares and marketing strategies. * Point to Point flights. * Best turnaround time compared to its competitors. * First to sell seats through Internet sites. * Positively Outrageous customer service. * Maintained Co-operative labor relations. * They always
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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 scrappy low-fare upstarts the
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BASIC STRATEGY: In order to make up for increasing expenses Southwest needs to expand. My recommended strategy for Southwest to pursue‚ is to merge with Air-Tran and expand into areas where Air-Tran has a heavy presence and Southwest has none. With Southwest having a weak presence in the southeastern U.S.‚ a key area to expand would be Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International‚ which is the busiest airport in the U.S. There is obviously a need for the low air-fare company at this site. Southwest’s
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CSR practiced by Southwest Airlines To build a reputation as a leader in corporate social responsibility‚ companies should focus on strong governance practices‚ positive working conditions‚ and a commitment to supporting the needs of communities and the environment Southwest airlines has consistently been on top‚ in the American companies that are nominated as the best practitioners of CSR in the country. Southwest divides its social responsibility among three principal categories; Community outreach/volunteerism
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SOUTWEST AIRLINES ANALYSIS The U.S. airline industry has proven to be one of the least profitable in the entire world. It has been plagued by fierce competition and destructive price wars‚ extraordinary fixed costs‚ and heated labor relations. Despite these numerous challenges‚ Southwest Airlines has been able to stand out from the competition and has established itself as one of the only consistently profitable airlines‚ with a record of twenty-one straight profitable years and stock earnings
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Industry IT Survey Project For Southwest Airlines Prepared for Rick‚ Turley CIS600: Information Technology and Project Management Prepared by Amr‚ Mutlaq Colorado State University April‚ 17th‚ 2013 Overview Southwest Airlines Co is a major U.S airline and the world’s largest low-cost carrier‚ headquartered in Dallas‚ Texas. It was established in 1967 and adopted its current name in 1971. The airline has more than 46‚000 employees as of August 2012 and operates more than 3‚400
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Tommy Johnson Chapter 13 is titled “Scheduling Operations” and it is mainly about scheduling decisions for batch operations and how they deal with the allocation of scarce resources to jobs‚ activities‚ tasks‚ or customers. “Scheduling results in a time-phased plan‚ or schedule‚ of activities. The schedule indicates what is to be done‚ when‚ by whom‚ and with what equipment. Scheduling should be clearly differentiated from aggregate planning” (Schroeder‚ pg. 293). Chapter 14 is titled “Project
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The following questions pertain to the Ten Southwest Practices for Building High Performance Relationships. With regard to questions 1 - 4 please explain what they mean to you within a service management focused organization. 1. "Lead with Credibility and Caring"? Many believe that leadership is related to an individual’s level or position within a company; many people refer to the leadership of an organization as embodying the individuals who hold executive positions. However‚ most executives
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Southwest Airlines and Microeconomics John Divler Rasmussen College Author Note This research is being submitted on June 14‚ 2010‚ for Mr. Bergeen’s Microeconomics course at Rasmen College by John Divler. Southwest Airlines and Microeconomics Southwest Airlines was created in 1967 and is headquartered in Dallas‚ TX. Southwest offers flights to their passengers to get them to their destinations when they want to get there‚ on time‚ at the lowest possible fare. The advantage that Southwest
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Southwest Airline of the Future Mike Reeder Indiana Wesleyan University June 24‚ 2013 SOUTHWEST AIRLINE OF THE FUTURE Southwest has a strong excellent reputation shown in the Diamond Award that it won this past year in the Air Cargo World’s Air Cargo Excellence (Southwest Among Repeat Winners‚ 2013). Another strength of Southwest is that it has been in business for the last 42 years and made it 36 years in a row with a positive profit
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