10 « RYANAIR. FLY CHEAPER » BSS008S-3 Applied E-Business ASSIGNMENT 1 (10 December 2010) TOPIC N°1 ABSTRACT This report presents the e-business company RYANAIR. Throughout it we are going to find what type of competitive advantage the company pursues‚ what factors help it creating a superior customer value‚ what impacts this kind of company has on the whole industry and finally what are the controversial issues about RYANAIR. Mainly‚ RYANAIR is a low-cost airline company which
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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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Table of Contents Introduction 5 Step 1: Identification of the main problem 5 1.1 Summary 5 1.2The strategic development of Ryanair 6 1.3 The main problem and resulting questions 8 Step 2: Gathering the facts 9 2.1 Environment 9 2.1.1. Macro environment 9 2.1.2 Meso environment 11 2.2 Strategic capabilities 13 2.3 Competitive strategy 14 2.3.1 Robustness 14 2.3.2 Cost efficiency 15 2.4 Economical information 16 2.5 Expectations and purposes 18 2.5.1 Stakeholders 18 2.6 Overview derived facts: SWOT
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Motivation at Ryanair Ricardo Lopes UC - MBA 2010-2013 Organisational Behaviour Introduction Nowadays flying for a few pounds is a reality in Europe‚ due to low cost airliners‚ like Ryanair. Management at Ryanair has only one view‚ to reduce costs in all ways possible to give their customers the lowest price in the market (Boru‚ 2006). This was the type of management that changed civil aviation in the last 20 years. For this reason‚ human resources in Ryanair are considered one more resource in the
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Business Strategy Prof. Sebastian Raisch Mr. Jonathan Schad MBA Session 2014 HEC University of Geneva RYANAIR- The Low Fares Airline: Whither Now? Student: Roi Lavi May 5th 2014 1. Evaluation of the Competitive Situation in the Industry1: 1/5 The Bargaining Power of Low-Fare flight ticket buyer is LOW-MEDIUM: The low cost airline company’s buyers are mostly individual passengers that book 99% of tickets by Internet‚ without agents or other third parties and thus there is no dominant
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Although Ryanair inspired its strategy from the low cost model Southwest has created‚ we can easily notice that there is now major differences between Ryanair and Southwest Airlines. 1. They are not targeting the same market. In 2009 Ryanair had over 850 routes across 26 countries in Europe‚ while Southwest is only focused on the domestic market (except from Mexico and the Caribbean‚ after its acquisition of AirTran Airways). Even if Ryanair considered the opportunity to go overseas‚ they dropped
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strategies of low-cost airlines: The Ryanair case study Paolo Malighetti a‚ *‚ Stefano Paleari a‚ Renato Redondi b a b Department of Economics and Technology Management‚ University of Bergamo– Universoft‚ Viale Marconi 5‚ Dalmine 24044‚ Italy Department of Mechanical Engineering‚ University of Brescia – Universoft‚ Via Branze‚ 38 – 25123 Brescia‚ Italy a b s t r a c t Keywords: Dynamic pricing Low-cost Ryanair Fares We analyse the pricing policy adopted by Ryanair‚ the main low-cost carrier
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References | 10 | Word Count: 2061 Introduction Ryanair was founded in 1985 by the Ryan family‚ which was headed by Tony Ryan. It was the first budget airline in Europe‚ modeled after the successful US carrier‚ Southwest Airlines. It was founded to provide scheduled passenger airline services between Ireland and the UK‚ as an alternative to then state monopoly carrier‚ Aer Lingus. At the beginning‚ Ryanair was a full service conventional airline‚ with two classes of seating‚ leasing three different
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framework33. SWOT analysis of Ryanair44. Challenges and recommendations for the future75. References81. BackgroundThe subject of this report is Ryanair - the first Low Cost Carrier in Europe - which was founded in 1985 (Ryanair.com History 2008). The firm began operations with a staff of 25 and a single 15-seat airplane flying between Waterford and London. In 1986 Ryanair received permission to begin flying four flights a day on the Dublin-London route. In doing so‚ they challenged the monopoly of British
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The European Airline industry has gone through a lot in the past century since the establishment of the first public airline after the World War I. Until a few decades ago most of these airlines were national and at least partially state owned‚ and most of the European countries had at least one‚ with direct government control. Significant change in this only came in the 1990’s with the appearance of the low cost airlines. While the business model existed for some time (first such in 1973 US)‚ the
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