Case #20 – Southwest Airlines Company History 1966 Rollin King approached Herb Kelleher’s law office with plan to start low-cost/lowfare airline Ran into legal problems‚ rival airlines in Texas did everything they could to block new airline Herb Kelleher was determined to start up airline 1971 – Lamar Muse Southwest CEO‚ background in industry to get it up and starting Raised $7 million in capital and private investors to purchase planes and equipment Flights started between Dallas
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concluded through a PESTLE analysis that the expected rise in Nordic GDP will affect the passenger traffic positively whereas the future increasing oil prices were found to impact especially the low-cost-carriers negatively. The competition in the airline industry was found fierce particularly because of the success of the low-cost-carriers Ryanair and Norwegian but the focus of SAS on business travellers reduces the competitive rivalry. As a consequence of this focus SAS was concluded to be stuck-in-the-middle
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Airlines PEST Analysis: The Indian Airline Industry A PEST analysis is an analysis of the external macro-environment that affects all firms. P.E.S.T. is an acronym for the Political‚ Economic‚ Social‚ and Technological factors of the external macro-environment. Such external factors usually are beyond the firm’s control and sometimes present themselves as threats. For this reason‚ some say that "pest" is an appropriate term for these factors. Let us look at the PEST analysis of the Indian aviation
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AIRLINE RESERVATION SYSTEM 1.1 Abstract Main aim of the Airline Reservation System is to help the customers in reserving Air tickets through online. Airline Reservation Systems (ARS) used to be standalone systems. Each airline had its own system‚ disconnected from other airlines or ticket agents‚ and usable only by a designated number of airline employees. Travel agents in the 1970s pushed for access to the airlines ‘systems. Today‚ air travel information is linked‚ stored‚ and retrieved by a network
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IndiGo Come September‚ budget carrier IndiGo will press ahead with its boldest move since... inception. India’s fastest-growing airline will launch its first international flight from Delhi to Dubai on September 1‚ followed by flights to Bangkok and Singapore from Delhi and Mumbai. In many ways‚ it will be a pivotal moment for the five-yearold carrier. IndiGo has built its success on a signature cocktail of clipped costs‚ a squeaky-clean reputation for punctuality and hassle-free services‚ rapid
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KINGFISHER AIRLINES HISTORY Kingfisher airlines was established in 2003. It is owned by the Bengaluru based United Breweries group. The airline started commercial operations in 9 May 2005 with a fleet of four new Airbus A320-200s operating a flight from Mumbai to Delhi. It started its international operations on 3 september 2008 by connecting Bengaluru with London. HISTORY (CONTD) Kingfisher’s head office is located in The Qube in Andheri (East)‚ Mumbai and its registered office is located
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Cost Leadership After contemplating many different strategy options and evaluating our markets‚ the Ferris group decided that we would utilize and follow a strategy discussed in chapter 6 of Wheelen and Hunger’s text[1]: cost leadership. This strategy focuses on “a lower-cost competitive strategy that aims at the broad mass market and requires efficient scale facilities‚ cost reductions‚ and cost and overhead control. This strategy avoids marginal customers‚ and aims for cost minimization in R&D
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Crisis of Kingfisher Airlines (Competitive SWOT Analysis‚ PEST and Porter Modle application) [pic] Table of Contents I. Crisis of Kingfisher Airlines – Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3 II. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 III. Competitive Advantage for Apple Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 IV. PC industry over view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 7
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Market segmentation Market consists of large number of actual and potential customers. The process of splitting the market into different groups or segments based on the needs‚ characteristics or buyer behavior is called as Segmentation (Kotler‚ Brown‚ Adam‚ and Armstrong‚ 2007). Singapore Airlines (SIA) has used traditional approach adopted by legacy carriers for segmentation. SIA focuses on business travelers and the price sensitive leisure travelers. The business paradigm of SIA has clearly
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US earned it cost of capital. Why do such low rates of return on investment persist in the airline industry? 2. Despite the challenging industry environment‚ airlines like Southwest Airlines and JetBlue earn enviable returns. How? 3. Why have all of the subsidiaries of legacy airlines‚ including Delta Express‚ failed? 4. What will happen to Delta Airlines if it continues to respond to low-cost airlines in the way it has in the past? Can you size up‚ roughly‚ the financial consequences of continuing
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