Air Canada – Risk Management Case Report Industry Overview The airline industry is one of the largest global industries in the world. Airline companies in the airline industry have gone through challenging obstacles in the past decade. Many changes have occurred within the industry and increased regulations have driven up cost for the industry. The attacks on 9/11 left the industry in shock when planes were used in terrorist attacks in the United States. These attacks changed the mentality
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Company Overview Air Canada‚ founded in 1937‚ has been recognised as Canada’s flag airline.1 This airline provides services to its passengers within 192 countries around the world and ranks top twenty amongst the largest air transport provider worldwide.2 Air Canada has established a direct connection between its passengers and their company through brand loyalty. Two main aspects that are continuously being focused on is attitudinal aspects as well as behavioural aspects. It is undeniable that besides
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Overview of the Company Air Canada is the largest airline in Canada and the 15th largest commercial airline in the world to day (About Air Canada‚ 2012). Their headquarters are held and located in Montreal‚ Quebec. They have three hubs throughout Canada‚ in Toronto (YYZ)‚ Montreal (YUL and Vancouver (YVR). Air Canada’s main line of work is providing aviation transportation service to customers‚ along with offering specialty charter services. They provide these services along with incorporating
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1. What problems does Air Canada hope that Maintenix will solve? The legacy software package installed 15 years ago wasn’t efficient because there systems weren’t able to interact with one another or with finance and inventory system. The inefficiencies of these systems were costing Air Canada the time of its engineers and money that could’ve been used on maintaining its planes‚ instead of needlessly maintaining excess inventory. 2. How does Maintenix improve operational efficiency and decision-making
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general apathy. Not many people think of Canada as a country that can hold its own when in a conflict with those of similar economic conditions such as Russia‚ America or even France. However‚ historically and statistically‚ Canada has been an extremely strong military power‚ but only when the need arose. From the “stormtroopers” of Canadian raiding parties at Vimy Ridge to the sophisticated liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands in World War Two‚ Canada proved its extraordinary war efforts. The
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Name: Course: Professor: Date: Compare strategies between Air Canada vs. WestJet Introduction These report focuses on comparing the strategies between air Canada and WestJet. It does this by first discussing a brief background of the airlines together with their objectives. In addition‚ the paper goes a mile further to discuss how the two airlines carry out their market research and also the marketing tools they apply. Furthermore‚ it also gives an opinion on whether their strategies are in
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23/09/2010 Assignment2: Air Canada Takes off with Maintenix Read the Interactive Session: Technology‚ and then discuss the following questions: 1. What problems does Air Canada hope that Maintenix will solve? 2. How does Maintenix improve operational efficiency and decision-making? 3. Give examples of three decisions supported by the Maintenix system. What information do the Maintenix modules provide to support each of these decisions? Answer: 1. What problems does Air Canada hope that Maintenix
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How serious is the threat from conventional airlines that want to imitate the westjet culture? What does it take to imitate organizational culture? Can Air Canada compete against westjet’s employee productivity and its relationship with its employees? Ever since its establishment in 1996‚ WestJet has aimed to operate as a low-cost carrier while employing non-unionized members in a unique organizational culture. In its simplest form this unique organizational culture can be labeled as a labor managed
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about Air Canada briefly. Account for the initial valuation of capital assets‚ costs subsequent to acquisition‚ and the deposals of capital assets with reference to Air Canada. Define cash and accounts receivables and explain the recognition and valuation of receivables. Identify and compare depreciation methods. Table of Content Introduction Task 1: Internal Control and Cash Task 2: Receivables Task 3: Noncurrent Assets Task 4: Recommendations Conclusion References Introduction Air Canada
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6‚800 of Air Canada’s flight attendants were set to go on strike in 2011. However‚ the dispute between the union and the management escalated and got sent to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB)‚ and resulted in prohibition of work stoppage. Unwantingly‚ the employees had to resume daily operations at Air Canada. The main issues the employees brought to the table during the negotiations were: job protection‚ wages‚ working conditions and pension changes. Air Canada was planning to launch
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