airlines went bankrupt. Despite this‚ some low-price‚ low-cost airlines‚ such as Southwest and JetBlue still managed to make profits. Delta took notice of this and after three years of the company losing billions of dollars they decided to try something radically different by creating a separately branded airline called Song. To compete with traditional airlines like American Airlines and upstarts like JetBlue‚ Song completely altered the common way of flying. Song got rid of sky-high airfare rates
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Issued: October 10‚ 2006 Contact: Jay Sorensen‚ 414-961-1939 IdeaWorksCompany.com Europe’s Top 4 Low Cost Carriers Generated 470 Million Euros (US$593 Million) From Non-Ticket Sources in 2005 But U.S. frequent flier programs produced revenues estimated at 2.5 billion Euros (more than US$3 billion) and better per passenger results. 1 Revenues from non-ticket sources‚ which are called ancillary revenues‚ have become an important financial component for low cost carriers (LCCs) in Europe and throughout
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services * Price wars * Product substitution * Fluctuating demand of air travel by economy class * Increasing cost of aviation fuel - Long term fuel/oil prices and hedge activities. - Rising labor costs. - New low-cost carriers (Competitors Jetblue‚ Airtran - being copied) - New regional jets - Recession - decrease in air travel - Terrorist attacks - Operates mainly its own booking service # Weather patterns (e.g. Volcanoes) # Health Scares‚ Pandemics # Economic Cycles # Terrorist Attacks
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Southwest Airlines: The AirTran Acquisition Executive Summary 1. After the deregulation of the US Airline industry in 1978‚ the barriers to entry within the industry came down significantly and many Low Cost Carriers emerged overtime. 2. The emergence of rival Low Cost Carriers and the improvement in the Operation Efficiencies of Full Cost Carriers progressively eroded Southwest’s competitive advantage. 3. A closer look at AirTran’s value chain and its resultant efficiency shows
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Delta Airline Case 1- During the 1990’s‚ none of the five largest air carriers in the United States earned its cost of capital. Why do such low rates of return on investment persist in the airline industry? That’s correct‚ airline companies margins were below the average for US industries for a long time‚ especially after the 1978 deregulation. For 40 years‚ prior to 1978‚ the airline companies had operated under the regulation of the CAB (Civil Aeronautics Board)‚ which was responsible for
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http://www.slideshare.net/sarah.e.gay/jetblue-midterm-projectsgaypdf http://www.papercamp.com/group/jet-blue-case-study-13-analysis/page-0 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=911464 http://www.icmrindia.org/casestudies/catalogue/Business%20Strategy1/BSTR045.htm general intro to case study page 69 http://www.scribd.com/doc/18043997/s-t-r-a-t-e-g-y-i Starbucks Case Study Questions How is Jet blue performing? =CLEM - Competitor analysis: competitor
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Airline Industry Analysis Page 1 of 15 Memorandum Date: Subject: To: From: July 13‚ 2009 Airline Industry Analysis Dr. Matt Ford Adam Brown‚ Radmila Gogzheyan‚ Greg Huwel‚ Marie Meininger‚ Josh Riedel‚ Christina Ryan Introduction The following is an analysis of the airline industry. Using collected information and Porter’s “Five Forces” model‚ we will provide information about the attractiveness of the airline industry and provide a recommendation based on that information. Industry Background
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Megan Sedlacek Marketing Unit 4 Assignment 1. As a marketing consultant for a chain of hair salons‚ you have been asked to evaluate the kids’ market as a potential segment for the chain to target. Evaluate the kids’ segment against the four criteria for successful market segmentation. * Substantiality: Is the kids’ group large enough to warrant developing and maintaining a special marketing mix? I think so. However‚ there is a challenge finding the right size or balance. If
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Southwest Airlines (LUV) Anonymous University of Phoenix‚ AXIA MGT – 245 Organizational Behavior Andrea Benjamin February 10‚ 2008 "You are now free to move about the country." -- SWA Introduction Southwest Airlines was founded more than 36 years ago by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher who decided to create a different type of airline. Rollin King and Herb Kelleher started with the simple idea: “If you get your passengers to their destinations when they want to get there
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Service Offering The invention of the airplane has had a profound impact on how people are able to experience the world today‚ thus the airline industry can be credited with shaping travel in a way that was once perceived as impossible. Because air travel is a commodity‚ the airline industry has found itself an extremely competitive market‚ where creating more value for their customers is essential in order to succeed. United Airlines leaves no room for confusion that they recognize this necessity
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