Case 1: Southwest Airlines 1. What is SWA’s strategy? What does it take to execute the strategy? Southwest’s strategy is to maintain low cost‚ low fares and frequent flights. SWA execute this strategy through emphasizes point to point routes‚ which means customers fly directly to their final destination. According to annual report of 1993‚ 80 percent of its customers fly non-stop to their final destination. Furthermore‚ SWA also pays off in shorter turnaround times and higher equipment. Therefore
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is available at http://www.emerald-library.com Journal of Management Development 19‚6 456 The story of Singapore Airlines and the Singapore Girl Deputy Head of Department/Group Head‚ Republic of Singapore Air Force‚ Singapore Keywords Airlines‚ Singapore‚ Brands‚ Differentiation‚ Strategy‚ Service quality Abstract Maps the strategic 50-year journey of Singapore Airlines (SIA) to identify the underlying factors that account for its extraordinary success and world-class stature. Both longitudinal
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Singapore airlines (SQ) are one of the best and most famous airlines in the world with great service and great airplane with airbus and superbus. Singapore airlines began in 1947 with Malaysia airways. On 16 September 1963‚ the Federation of Malaysia was born and the Airline became known as Malaysian Airways. In May 1966‚ it became Malaysia-Singapore Airlines. In 1972‚ Malaysia-Singapore Airlines split up to become two entities - Singapore Airlines and Malaysian Airline System. That change was used
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Southwest Airlines: SWOT Analysis Mollika Thaing‚ Khoa Tran‚ Tonielia Thomas‚ Hiwot Tesfaye‚ Kai Spear Mgmt. Prin. & Org. Behavior Professor Leon Prieto 11/18/2013 Southwest Airlines’ Description Southwest Airlines was introduced in Texas on June 18‚ 1971 with three Boeing 737 airplanes and only serving three cities of Texas which included Houston‚ Dallas and San Antonio. The company came a long way since 1971; today Southwest Airlines has 537 Boeing 737 airplanes and serving 68
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This paper evaluates the key financial challenges facing organizations in Risk Management‚ Managing International Acquisitions‚ and Managing Working Capital simulations. Secondly‚ an evaluation of Southwest Airlines (SWA) management of working capital and the optimal financial strategies employed is presented. Also evaluated are the potential improvements in financial performance along with long-term and short-term strategies. Lastly‚ considered in this paper is whether a merger or acquisition
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Philippine Airlines Lucio Tan‚ the owner and Chairman of Philippine Airlines (PAL) was faced with a problem. Despite unacceptable levels of profitability‚ higher levels of passenger boardings for the summer of 1997 indicated that a sharp increase in staffing levels was required. Faced with this request from his management team‚ Mr. Tan‚ having heard of some effective consulting work carried out by Renoir Consulting in the Philippines‚ asked Renoir to conduct an assessment of his Manila operation
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Importance to economy The revenue of international airlines industry has increased from 476 billion USD in 2009 to 567 billion USD in 2011‚ a 9.3% year-on-year increase. This industry employs 56.5 million workers and accounts for US $2.2 trillion of the global GDP. Indian Aviation industry contributes to 0.5% of the India’s GDP and generates 1.7 million jobs. Technological Trends Major cost items for airlines are fuel‚ labour and maintenance. Airlines are able to reduce the cost/increase profit by
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I. INTRODUCTION A. Introduction U.S. Flightways (USF) is a large-sized airline which is publicly traded and has 80.000 employees. It serves more than 50 countries and 250 destinations. Latest airline related measurements show that the Available Seat Mile for USF is 169.9 and the Revenue Passenger Mile is 138.4. The Passenger Load Factor shows 81.5 and The Cost per Available Seat Mile is 11.3 cents per mile‚ whereas the Revenue per Available Seat Mile shows 10.7 cents per mile. USF has a total
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PHILIPPINE AIRLINES: What’s next? Philippines airlines started its history on March 15‚ 1941 on a small twin-engine Beech Model 18 flying 212 of pure skies from Manila to Baguio with a full load of five passengers. Upon the outbreak of the pacific war‚ PAL’s two aircraft were pressed into service with the US army Air Corps. Post-war operations began on February 14‚ 1946 with five ex-military Douglas DC-35. In July‚ the airline chartered DC-4s to carry American service men home to Oakland‚ making
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Hub of the World Emirates is one of the fastest-growing and most profitable airlines in the world. Yet the secret of its success is largely unknown outside the Arab world. Donald N. Sull‚ Sumantra Ghoshal and Felipe Monteiro unveil some of the mystery that shrouds a national carrier that enjoys no state handouts – and treats its employees as a giant family. The ess than two decades after its foundation‚ Emirates placed the biggest order in civil aviation history‚ for $19 billion worth of
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