(1) Describe and assess Ryanair’s launch strategy (In 1986‚ when they entered the Dublin-London route) Ryanair was launched at a time that did not seem highly favorable to the airline industry. As a matter of facts‚ in 1986‚ the market was still recovering from the aftermaths of the OPEC oil embargo and the 1979’s oil crisis which led to an important increase in the jet oil prices‚ along with a recession that cut demand for air travel and thus gave an impulse to the aircrafts’ cheaper substitutes
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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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Porter’s 5 Forces Before the idea of Ryanair or indeed any low cost carrier was even devised the European airways industry was‚ as already illustrated‚ highly regulated. Therefore post 1992 and deregulation‚ great changes came about. By identifying with Porter’s “five forces‚” one is able to ascertain what this meant for Ryanair within the European air transport market. These five factors are threat of entry‚ competitive rivalry‚ bargaining power of suppliers‚ bargaining power of buyers and the
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MMN220511 Shaishav Kharwar (Mat No: 200813679) Course work 1 Resit Report on RYANAIR Module Leader Dr.Colin Combe Introduction The company chosen in this report is Ryanair in the airline industry. Ryanair is a low cost budget airline travelling across 1600 routes from 57 bases connecting 180 destinations in 29 different countries (Ryanair.com). Ryanair first started its operations in 1985 between Ireland and London. The first year it commuted around 5000 customers
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Report: An Analysis of Ryanair’s business environment Introduction: Ryanair is Europe’s leading low cost airline. It currently operates over 1600 flights per day to 180 destinations in 29 countries. It has achieved this through developing and marketing itself as Europe’s only ultra-low cost carrier (ULCC). This has seen its profits rise by 13% for the fiscal year ending 2013 to over €569million and its passenger traffic grow by 5% to over 79.3 million people‚ this being in spite of an increase
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Ryanair: Revolutionizing the Airline Industry Isuru ‘Nimesh’ Wickramasinghe AVIT 423 St. Cloud State University Novermber 17th 2011 Europe’s new low cost airlines are growing at an exponential rate‚ taking over market share from the big traditional airlines and some of them such as RyanAir is carrying more passengers than the British Airlines (Dr. Dennis). Trends in the past 2 decades have all shown of a constant and almost fierce growth in these low-cost airlines and it looks like they
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I.INTRODUCTIONThis report outlines the analysis of two low-cost airlines performance in Europe‚ namely easyJet PLC and Ryanair Hldgs during their financial year between 2006 and 2008. It examines the companies’ portfolio‚ future prospects and competitors to analyse the threats and opportunities facing their business. In conclusion‚ there is a recommendation whether to invest on easyJet and/or Ryanair’s shares. II.FINANCIAL AND NON-FINANCIAL RATIO ANALYSISIn terms of the completed financial analysis
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of the Five forces 7.Limitations of the five forces Model 8.Porter in the airline industry/Ryanair Introduction The model of the Five Competitive Forces was developed by Michael Porter in his book Competitive Strategy: "Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors" in 1980. Since that time it has become an important instrument for analyzing an organisations industry structure in the strategic processes. Porter’s model is based on the idea that a business strategy should meet the opportunities
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A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE STRATEGIC CHOICES OF TELKOM AND WHETHER THEY ARE APPROPRIATE OR NOT According to Grant (2010:23) an organisation strategy can be identified or located in three places: in the heads of the chief executive and senior managers‚ in their articulation of strategy speeches and written documents and decisions through which strategy is enacted. From the Telkom view‚ the strategy statements can be identified in its vision‚ mission and values. These are as follows: Vision
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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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