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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Case: Dogfight over Europe: Ryanair (C) A. What is Ryanair’s strategy and why has it been successful so far? In 1911‚ Ryanair faced cash flow problem‚ and was going to be bankrupted. However‚ it found the way to overcome this crisis by transform themselves from ordinary high-price airlines into the lowest price airline in the EU. They focused on 5 things to rebirth their company. 1. Focused on cut down the costs: Ryanair aggressively cut most of its costs in many ways. Found the routes and airports
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(availability of supply)‚ efficient infrastructure and open trading/marketing system (business environment). Although the cocoa value chain in Indonesia has experienced phenomenal growth over the past few decades‚ its continued competitiveness is threatened by inconsistent and poor quality production. Widespread pest infestation‚ especially from the cocoa pod borer (CPB)‚ is a primary cause of poor cocoa bean quality. In order to address the problems of CPB infestation‚ various public and private sector
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Dogfight over Europe: Ryanair (A) 1) What is your assesment of Ryanair´s launch strategy? The Ryanair’s launch strategy was not the best for that moment. They began flying between Ireland and London‚ in a very saturated market‚ which competed with two strong companies owned by the government and with great experience: Aer Lingus and British Airways (who also had come together to improve their perform). And also entered the market independent carriers Such as British Midland. Another important
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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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fly with Ryanair‚ especially if Ryanair could maintain the proclaimed high quality service to its passengers. 2. Ryanair’s 4 daily flights provide much flexibility to the travelers who could travel at their time of convenience in a day. 3. Ryanair’s usage of 44-seater turboprop would greatly enhance its occupancy rate and at the same time‚ cost Ryanair much less to operate when compared to BA’s operational cost since BA used bigger capacity planes for this route (67% occupancy). Ryanair will not
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INTRODUCTION TO THE TOPIC: Primary research is any type of research that we go out and collect ourselves. Examples include surveys‚ interviews and observations. In other words information that has been collected at first hand is called primary research. It involves measurement of some sort‚ whether by taking readings off instruments‚ sketching‚ counting‚ or conducting interviews. Conducting primary research is a useful skill to acquire as it can greatly supplement our research in secondary
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How did the deregulation of air transportation in Europe foster entrepreneurial behavior and innovation in the European airline industry over the last twenty years? Case studies: SAS Airline & Ryanair Master Thesis in Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Business Contexts Spring 2007 Supervisor: Håkan Bohman Entrepreneurship Master Program Authors: Gilles Helterlin and Nuno Ramalho Acknowledgements We would like to express our gratitude to all who have contributed to the realization of this
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Resources * Ryanair currently employs 2000 people (2003) from 25 nations. * The pay is performance related and among the highest in the airline industry (Annual Report 2004‚ p. 5). Travel concessions and participation in the share option program is granted to all employees. In 2003 over 30% (639 in total) of employees took part in the stock option program - the average pay per employee was about 53.000 (Annual Report 2004‚ p. 21). * CEO Michael O’Leary has significantly shaped Ryanair. 2. Physical
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“The greater a firm‟s ownership extends over successive stages of the value chain for its product‚ the greater the degree of vertical integration” (Grant‚ 2010‚ pp354). The consumer electronics industry value chain is depicted below: Thus a firm can be said to be vertically integrated if it owns and operates each of these stages of the value chain. The consumer electronics industry has many players who produce goods for purposes such as entertainment‚ communication and work. There are many determinants
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