Malaysia Airlines’ Flight 370 Disappearance Have you ever pondered about a plane disappearing in the 21st century and not being able to find it? On March 8th‚ 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared. The plane was scheduled to take off from Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia and to land in Beijing‚ China. The flight held 227 passengers and 12 crew members. It is said that Flight 370 lost contact with air traffic control after less than an hour of flying. A couple hours later the flight was announced missing
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Proceedings of the 13th Asia Pacific Management Conference‚ Melbourne‚ Australia‚ 2007‚ 431-436 Competitive Strategy for Low Cost Airlines Hongwei Jiang RMIT University‚ Australia Abstract The aim of this paper is to identify challenge faced to Low-Cost Carriers (LCCs) or Low-Cost Airlines and provide new insights into the development and competitive strategy for LCCs. LCCs are still a relatively new phenomenon in Australia since Virgin Blue and Jetstar came to the market. There are over 30 LCCs
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Distribution Strategy WS5A4 Southwest Airlines - Case Study Operating under an intensely competitive environment‚ Southwest Airlines carefully projects its image so customers can differentiate its product from its competitors. Southwest positions itself in all its marketing communications as the only low-fare‚ short-haul‚ high-frequency‚ point-to-point carrier in America that is fun to fly (Cheng‚ 2010). Its low-priced fares are a brand equity which it "owns" in the mathematical sense of being the
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Definition: A firm pursuing a cost-leadership strategy attempts to gain a competitive advantage primarily by reducing its economic costs below its competitors. If cost-leadership strategies can be implemented by numerous firms in an industry‚ or if no firms face a cost disadvantage in imitating a cost-leadership strategy‚ then being a cost leader does not generate a sustained competitive advantage for a firm. The ability of a valuable cost-leadership competitive strategy to generate a sustained competitive
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MODULE 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP 1.7 – 1.14 What are the ways strategies can be developed? Approaches to understanding strategy: ❖ Rational - based on a model in which the conception and execution of strategy are treated as discrete‚ sequential activities. Chandler (1962) defined strategies as a straightforward process made up of two chronological activities. The following steps are typical of the method employed in this approach: 1. The establishment
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THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY: Trends‚ Challenges‚ Strategies John Wensveen‚ Ph.D. Dean‚ School of Aviation Dowling College New York‚ USA www.dowling.edu President‚ Airline Visions www.airlinevisions.com The University of Sydney Faculty of Economics and Business Leadership and Policy Seminar Series Sydney‚ Australia 23 February 2010 Presentation Objectives • Provide background on the global industry • Present a regional analysis • Discuss current and future evolvement of the industry (trends) • Discuss
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COST LEADERSHIP STRATEGY Dell Computers have been the industry leader with there cost-leadership strategy. They strive to provide technology and support at a lower unit cost than their competitors. They are a direct model company. Their unique relationship with customers gives Dell the opportunity to know exactly what their customers want and offer products that their customers need. They have a strong focus on being a "market taker" rather than a "market maker". Capitalizing on their ability
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University Pricing Strategy Gaelle Rodrigue University Affiliation University Pricing Strategy The term market structure refers to the characteristics of the market. These characteristics may be competitive or organizational characteristics‚ or any other characteristics‚ which can best be used to describe services and goods market (Solow‚ 1998). Major characteristics that for long have used by economists in their attempt to describe the market structures
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with other airlines in your existing markets or future markets. Take for example of Malaysia Airlines‚ it will have to identify and segment its markets first. Probably it will come out with a cross matrix segments of: a. geographical markets b. demography c. Travel purposes. Let view one of the segment‚ geographical .. for Malaysia. Then we can see straight away the prominent competitor which is Air Asia. The competitor will be one of the considerations for us to develop or strategy. 2. The
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China Southern Airline is the world’s sixth-largest airline measured by passengers carried‚ and Asia’s largest airline in terms of both fleet size and passengers carried. It is also the fourth-largest airline in the world in domestic passenger traffic and the sixth-largest in scheduled domestic passenger-kilometres flown Marketing Strategy 1. Maintain marketing share. 2. Expanding marketing structure‚ increase market share‚ identifies new customers‚ open up new routes‚ and stimulate visitors
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