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I. CURRENT SITUATION A. CURRENT PERFORMANCE Wal-Mart is the world’s number 1 retailer‚ with more than 4‚800 stores‚ including 1‚475 discount stores‚ 1‚750 combination discount and grocery stores (Wal-Mart Supercenters in the US and ASDA in the UK) and 540 warehouse stores (SAM’s Club). Nearly 75% of its stores are in the US‚ but Wal-Mart is expanding internationally. Wal-Mart is the number 1 retail in Canada and Mexico. The company also owns nearly 38% of Japanese supermarket chain SEIYU. Wal-Mart
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Ryanair recognized the profitability of the Dublin-London route‚ which was the only route that was profitable for Aer Lingus. While the direction of British Airways and Aer Lingus‘business models diversified worldwide‚ Ryanair saw an opportunity to streamline its costs by specializing on this specific route. Ryanair introduced a low cost‚ unrestricted fare‚ which undercut BA and Aer Lingus by £110 per ticket‚ while still focusing on first rate service. Ryanair was able to offer this low fare because
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over the rivals? 2- How do you expect Aer Lingus and British Airways to respond? Why? - Focus on competitor analyses of Aer Lingus and British Airways. What does Aer Lingus want to achieve? What does British Airways want to achieve? - What are the reasons to expect vigorous retaliation from Aer Lingus? From British Airways? - What are the reasons to expect accomodation from Aer Lingus? From British Airways? 3- How costly would it be for Aer Lingus and British Airways to retaliate against
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Andrea Castillo C Julia LeuchtgensAdriana Lima Case Study: Ryanair 1) What’s your assessment of Ryanair’s launch strategy? In 1986‚ the Ryan siblings are getting ready to start competing against British Airways and Aer Lingus on the Dublin-London route. This route was one of the most traveled air routes inEurope‚ which meant that Ryanair was taking a big risk by deciding to enter this market. At the moment the airline passenger market was a complex one‚ since the governments
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airlines routes (near 80% of its passengers passed to London Heathrow Airport). Ticket prices were offered accordingly to services desired‚ ranged from first class to economy. 2) Aer Lingus: Aer Lingus specialized on routes between Ireland and Britain. Liberal bilateral agreement between these two countries1 last until Aer
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for Aer Lingus and Brisith Airways to retaliate against Ryan Air’s launch rather than accommodate it? Currently‚ British Airways and Aer Lingus cannot compete in price at the range that Ryan Air is planning to operate. I believe that British Airways and Aer Lingus would be better off maintaining current prices and differentiating through the service that they offer‚ in the same way that they are. The current cost breakdown offered by the case shows that if British airways and Aer Lingus were
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Assessment of Ryanair’s launch strategy One possible reason why Ryanair chose to enter the Dublin-London route is because the route was reputed to be quite lucrative for both Aer Lingus and BA. It is easy to see why this route is lucrative because the least expensive fare for both carriers were priced at I£208 but operating expenses per passenger was only I£155.1. Ryanair’s publicized fare of only I£98 will help it to attract more passengers than both carriers given that it cost only half the
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Waterford and Gatwick Airport‚ located on the outskirts of London. One year later‚ the newborn company started operating between Dublin and the British capital. Two majors Airlines operated on this latter route at that time: British Airways and Aer Lingus‚ the Irish flag-carrier company. Moreover‚ some strong US airlines reached out for new routes into Europe after the deregulation of the domestic US airline industry‚ which made the pressure of competitors even more intense in the airline industry
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saturated market‚ which competed with two strong companies owned by the government and with great experience: Aer Lingus and British Airways (who also had come together to improve their perform). And also entered the market independent carriers Such as British Midland. Another important factor was that the Dublin-London route was the only one that provided reasonable returns for Aer Lingus‚ so it was not going to let customers easily take him by force‚ and Ryanair will be difficult without a really
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