MBA Elective: Airline and Airport Management (Part -1) Attend any 4 questions. Each question carries 25 marks (Each answer should be of minimum 2 pages / of 300 words) 1. Airline management practice has evolved significantly over the past three decades. The development of this practice has contributed to recent advances in computation and communication technologies and‚ more importantly‚ the need to reduce costs and increase revenues. Explain. 2. The Total Airport Management System (TAMS) is
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INTRODUCTION Background in Brief Ryanair was established by the Ryan family with a staff of 25. Its first route was launched in 1985 with a 15-seat aircraft ferrying passengers between Waterford in Ireland and London. In 1986‚ Ryanair launched its route from Dublin to London to challenge British Airways and Aer Lingus‚ the two dominant airline carriers on that route‚ by offering fares at lower prices. With two routes in operation‚ Ryanair carried 82‚000 passengers in its first full year of
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capabilities and sustainability of its strategies. COMPETETIVE POSITIONPORTER ’S FIVE FORCES FRAMEWORK; Threat of New Entrants: LOW High entry barrier due to large capital requirement‚ longer procurement and marketing period. Restricted airport slots availability. Threat of Substitutes: MEDIUM Threat of alternative mode of transportation like high-speed train and ferries within Europe. Customers can easily switch to driving. Buyer ’s Bargaining Power: MEDIUM Customers
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Can Cardiff Airport Survive? Mike Snelgrove Senior Lecturer Cardiff School of Management Jan 2011 Cardiff Airport (CA) is owned by Airport Concessions and Development Limited (90% Abertis Infraestructuras‚ 10% Aena Internacional)‚ who also own Belfast International airport and have operational‚ management and development responsibility of Luton airport. CA has a core population catchment of 2‚279‚000 from mid and south Wales: M. Glamorgan‚ S. Glamorgan‚ W. Glamorgan‚ and Dyfed Gwent Powys;
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expansion projects at Denver International Airport. These funds are being used for the master plan projects. Approximately $11.6m will go towards rehabilitating runway 8/26‚ and over $1.7m will be used to improve the taxiway system surrounding Jeppesen Terminal. About $8.7m will be used to upgrade runway 16L/34R. About $15m from the TSA grant will be spent on improving the airport ’s baggage screening system. Stakeholder Analysis To examine the role of the airport stakeholders a precise definition of
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INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF AIRPORT PRIVATIZATION ON PROFITABILITY‚ EFFICIENCY‚ COMPETITION AND AERONAUTICAL CHARGES Name: Course: Lecturer: Date: Declaration I hereby declare that this dissertation is my original work and has not been submitted in any other university or institution of learning for academic purposes. The ideas contained in this dissertation are my own unless where acknowledged‚ cited and appropriately referenced. Name:..................................... Signature..
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information available in the case study - Threat of new entrants o Airport slot availability • There is limited access to airport slots as national airlines had access to the best slots in the major airport hubs and new entrants to the market would only have little success as they would be given none or off-peak slot allocations at the airports • So-called grandfather rights at certain airports. • For instance in Heathrow Airport in London‚ British Airways can still control a slot although the
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experience was absolutely mind blowing for me. I was so excited once we landed at the airport that I remember running up to the nearest ashtray and yelling to my dad “Look dad‚ they have dirt here!” I am sure that was a little embarrassing for him but it did not faze me at all. I was from Alaska and had not seen dirt in months. I was so excited by everything around me; the amount of people‚ the sheer size of the airport‚ and even how big the bathrooms were. I remember waiting for our luggage to come out
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land in rougher weather. Let’s say the pilot is already approaching the airport. If at a tower controlled airport the controller should tell the pilot instructions on where to go. The controller tells the pilot to enter a left downwind at a forty five degree angle to set up to land. The traffic pattern is a so called “highway in the sky” and can vary from airport to airport but the same basic rules apply to all airports. The traffic pattern consists of departure‚ crosswind‚ downwind‚ base‚ and
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unofficial nickname` Vegas without the gambling `.about 95 percent of those visitors come by car or bus. Until now because of the new experiment – the Branson airport which is opened in May 2009. This airport is the nation’s first airport build and operated as a private‚ for profit business with absolutely no government funding. The airport chief executive(Steve Peet) had no idea where Branson was in 2000 but by 2004 he was certainly convinced that there was an opportunity to make money with this
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