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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Ryanair is considered to be the largest low fares airline in Europe. They have over 800 low fare routes across 26 different countries‚ so this gives you an indication as to the scale of this employer. Despite being a low budget airline‚ they are anything but budgeted when it comes to their staff. With real incentives and genuine opportunities for career progression‚ staff at Ryanair are valued for the hard work they do in helping to run one of the most successful budget airlines in the world. With
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COMPANY PROFILE Ryanair Holdings (Ryanair or ‘the company’) operates low fare scheduled passenger airline serving short haul‚ point to point routes between Ireland‚ the UK‚ and Continental Europe‚ as well as Morocco. It is headquartered in Dublin‚ Ireland and employs about 8‚560 people. The company recorded revenues of E3‚629.5 million ($4‚796.7 million) during the financial year ended March 2011 (FY2011)‚ an increase of 21.5% over FY2010.The operating profit of the company was E488.2 million ($645
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Australia. Australian Journal of Management 25(2)‚ 119-143 Slater‚ S Webster‚ F. E. Jr.‚ (1988) Rediscovering the marketing concept. Business Horizons 31 (May-June)‚ 29-39 Wrenn‚ B Ryanair‚ Available at: http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/ Quinn‚ Eamonn.(2003) No competitors for Ryanair in Dublin‚ says Cassani Milmo‚ D.‚ 2006‚ Ryanair - the world’s least favourite airline‚ The Guardian‚ Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0‚‚1931403‚00.html
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Ryanair’s average flight represents just 442 miles which is the equivalent of average length of passenger haul. This is a relatively small number that can be explained by the fact that Ryanair does not offer transatlantic flights‚ but focuses exclusively on routes between Ireland‚ the UK and Continental Europe. If one divides the number of employees at period end by the employees per aircraft served at period end one receives the number of airplanes‚ in this case 41‚38 airplanes. Furthermore one
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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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Europe. The market share leader is Ryanair. Important competitors are EasyJet‚ Air Berlin and the two smaller airlines: Norwegian Airlines and Wizz air. Also Aer Lingus can be seen as a competitor‚ despite the share of Ryanair in the carrier. Due to the economic recession opportunities for budget carriers increased. By mid-2009‚ budget airlines accounted for over 35% of scheduled intra-European traffic. Different players on the low-cost airline market Ryanair is an low-cost carrier‚ positioned
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DogFight over Europe: Ryanair Global Business Strategy What is your assessment of Ryanair’s launch strategy? Is it sensible? Will it succeed? We believe that Ryanair’s launch strategy was successful and we will justify this statement with information that was provided in the Ryanair’s case. To begin with‚ Ryanair airline was not that hard to establish for Cathal and Declan Ryan because of the capital that Ryanair’s founders managed to get from their father‚ Tony Ryan‚ who was a co-founder of
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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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Case 5 - A Dogfight over Europe: Ryanair Key Issue: The key issue in this case is that Ryanair’s competitive advantage is based on offering customers an easy-to-imitate low price. While it may be operationally effective‚ they have no strategic positioning. Supporting Arguments: Ryanair’s low prices were not a strategy to gain market share. They were simply out of necessity to stay afloat as their sales plummeted. However‚ as their prices dropped to increase sales‚ they did manage to generate
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