Question 1 How does air cargo differ from the passenger business in terms of revenue management? Which areas are more complex‚ which areas can be managed more easily? There are noted differences between air cargo and the passenger business. For example‚ unlike passengers‚ cargo shippers did not book round trips and therefore cargo flows were unpaired. Furthermore‚ cargo was classified according to multiple dimensions like volume and weight resulting in different pallet space requirements‚ while
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CASE STUDY- BUSINESS SIMULATION AT VIETNAM AIR CARGO I. Introduction: Vietnam air cargo is considering if they should invest for a project to carry goods with the route Hanoi-Ho chi Minh city-Rangoon-Bangkok-Hanoi. This is the route except for the leg between Rangoon and Bangkok –where Vietnam Airline has regular passenger flights and Vietnam Cargo often buy the extra space and weights on these flights for their cargo. Mr. Toan is deputy head of the business development unit. He had come to
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Airport Security-Air Cargo Out of all forms of passenger and freight transportation‚ air travel represents the highest levels of logistics complexity. Every day‚ thousands of aircraft leave the ground to service domestic and foreign countries. Since the World Trade Center attacks that took place on September 11‚ 2001‚ the world and especially the United States has been on a heightened state of alert. Although the aviation industries as well as the independent carries are working hard to ensure
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Air Cargo in the Middle East Abstract This paper is a study about the recent development of the Middle Eastern Airlines with a special focus on their air cargo carriers. These Airlines have been establishing a new dynamic on the way passengers and goods are transported around the world. Through a process of creating and developing new demands and new routes‚ these airlines along with the governments of Middle Eastern countries have been developing new infra-structure facilities such as airports
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG (FWB: LHA) (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈlʊfthanza]) is the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried‚ and the flag carrier of Germany. The name of the company is derived from Luft (the German word for "air")‚ and Hansa (after Hanseatic League‚ the powerful medieval trading group). The airline is the world’s fifth-largest airline in terms of overall passengers carried‚ operating services to 18 domestic destinations and 183 international destinations
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Lufthansa 2000: Maintaining the Change Momentum Prepared for: Business 497a Professor Don Fujitani Section # 15663 Prepared by: Amiel Traynum Elin Ghadimian Josh Sherriff Ross Zalavsky Ryan Neal External Environment: Global: Worldwide events such as the Gulf War‚ followed by a recession‚ put a burden on the airline industry and on Lufthansa as a company. These events caused a major decrease in the amount of seats filled in the airline
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Running head: BUSINESS CHALLENGES OF LUFTHANSA Business Challenges of Lufthansa Kristen Baker Dr Roy Nafarrete BUS 499‚ Strayer University March 20‚ 2010 Business Challenges of Lufthansa Lufthansa is an international airline company that can offer flights at a lower cost that its competitors. Lufthansa has many business challenges that they are faced with in business. This report will look at how they operate and how they can become even better. Wolfgang Mayrhuber and the
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This paper describes the concept of the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and how they improve the Air Cargo industry. In this paper we will discuss how GPS came to be and how it is used in every day air travel. The paper will also explain how the GPS systems improve the Air Cargo industry in tracking the shipment from one hub to another. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a system of navigation based on the integration of 24 satellites‚ 21 working systems and 3 backups‚ that relay information
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industries including the air cargo industry. Information systems have helped the air cargo industry remain competitive‚ provide customers and other with an efficient and easy to use service‚ and has kept the industry up to date. In 2003‚ Cargo Patrol Services (CPS) opened for business as the air cargo industry’s first full-service Internet portal that provided the industry with an electronic booking and shipment management system. Without this new system‚ the air cargo industry would have suffered
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LUFTHANSA If Karl Marx could see what the foreign exchange market is doing to the world’s captains of industry‚ he would surely be laughing. Not only do they put up with labor problems‚ competition‚ deregulation‚ and rapid changes in technology—no‚ that is not enough. Add currency volatility to that list in the last few years. And it’s so bad that a successful corporate executive of one of the world’s prestige airlines can put on a multimillion dollar currency speculation‚ and win—and still
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