do you expect Aer Lingus and British Airways to respond? There could be 4 ways to respond: 1. Start price war with Ryanair by immediately reducing AL and BA prices: unsustainable due to high overheads. 2. Gradual cost cutting (staff reduction‚ less customer service‚ less perks‚ lower quality travel‚ outsourcing of services‚ etc.) to bring pricing structure in line with Ryanair: without losing core competence‚ brand value and profit at bigger stage where they are now profitable. However subsidizing
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MGT 472; Strategic Mgt. Ryanair Case Study 1.) What are the characteristics of the European aviation environment at the time of the case? (20 points) When Ryanair was established in April of 1986‚ there were many factors to consider in order to properly assess their current environment. In order to attain a firm grasp of their current atmosphere‚ we must delve deeply into its external‚ general‚ industrial‚ and competitive facets. European aviation at the time was dealing with different
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opportunities‚ it is also essential to analyze the internal environment of the company‚ to identified the types of activities that form the production process. An analysis tool that helps identify what are the key activities of the production process of Ryanair and which are auxiliary or complementary is the analysis of the value chain (value chain). The value chain‚ in fact‚ lets to consider the enterprise as a system of value-generating activities. This value is defined as the price that the consumer is
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Cost Carriers best. The global economic recession has handed Ryanair and similar carriers near-perfect operating conditions. As Ryanair explains‚ "this recession has encouraged passengers to become much more price sensitive which is why they are switching to Ryanair ’s low fares and unbeatable customer service over all other competitors". Ryanair expects a 15-20% reduction in average fares this year to around EUR32 per passenger. Ryanair is expecting that several of its smaller rivals will not be
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Introduction: Ryanair was established in the year 1985 by the RYAN family and has grown from a small airline flying a short hop from Waterford to London‚ into one of the Europe’s largest carriers. The company expanded and within 4 years it had 350 employees‚ 14 aircraft‚ and carried 600‚000 passengers a year. It is currently serving to 26 European Countries with 148 destinations. It operates on 794 different routes daily serving by more than 1050 flights in a day. It has totally 169 aircrafts
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Dogfight over Europe: Ryanair What is your assessment of Ryanair’s launch strategy? Ryanair’s strategy to launch airline with single fare no restriction ticket at price less than half of other players would certainly get it the market share quickly. However‚ the success of this strategy would require Ryanair to manage the expenses and keep costs low. Ryanair has decided to offer full service (meals and amenities) while offering lower price. This would definitely put strain on the costs
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The Low Fares Airline---Ryanair By Kuan Li Introduction: Chief executive Michael O ’Leary blamed weaker exchange rates‚ greater competition and the continued impact of austerity measures in Europe for decline. However‚ sources at other airlines queried Ryanair ’s statement‚ saying they had yet to see similar signs (Thomas‚ 2013).In other words‚ that means the environmental impact of Ryanair is less than other airlines. At the same time also can know that Ryanair has strong actual strength. The
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Airline industry‚ this is the most important force today‚ especially since the market is completely saturated. First Mover Advantage Ryanair were among the first movers because many copycat’ airlines have tried to follow suit. There are only two pan-European low cost operators where first mover advantage and scale and cost efficiencies gave the two largest players‚ Ryanair and Easyjet‚ a significant advantage. Since deregulation‚ of the 80 low cost operators that had begun operations‚ 60 had gone bankrupt
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BACKGROUND ANALYSIS In 1986‚ upstart airline Ryanair proposed to expand its business to the London-Dublin route‚ in direct competition with British Airways (BA) and Aer Lingus (AL). While BA focused primarily on business passengers‚ and was profitable on the London-Dublin route relying on travel agents being responsible for 83% of its scheduled revenues‚ AL was loosing money and was in business primarily due to Irish government support. However‚ international routes accounted for 2/3rd
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very important when a small company like RyanAir is entering a market where Aer Lingus and BA pretty much own the market. 2. How do you expect the incumbents to respond? Why? I would expect the incumbents to lower their prices for tickets for the London-Dublin route to try and keep RyanAir from gaining a significant portion of the market share. This price cut would eat into the immediate financials of these two companies but if they don’t do this‚ RyanAir will pose a bigger threat when they gain
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