Executive Summary Porter Airlines‚ a short-haul commercial airliner established in 2002‚ have enjoyed significant and steady growth since inception. The concern now is to devise a solution that will allow Porter to continue its controlled expansion strategy‚ as it has been so successful and integral to the growth of the company over the past several years. Situation Analysis Porter Airlines operates in a fiercely competitive airline industry‚ where competitors compete based on price‚ service‚ and
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“SMART MATERIALS” ABSTRACT The world has undergone two materials ages‚ the plastics age and the composite age‚ during the past centuries. In the midst of these two ages a new era has developed. This is the smart materials era. According to early definitions‚ smart materials are materials that respond to their environments in a timely manner. The definition of smart materials has been expanded to materials that receive‚ transmit or process a stimulus and respond
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Importance to economy The revenue of international airlines industry has increased from 476 billion USD in 2009 to 567 billion USD in 2011‚ a 9.3% year-on-year increase. This industry employs 56.5 million workers and accounts for US $2.2 trillion of the global GDP. Indian Aviation industry contributes to 0.5% of the India’s GDP and generates 1.7 million jobs. Technological Trends Major cost items for airlines are fuel‚ labour and maintenance. Airlines are able to reduce the cost/increase profit by
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INTRODUCTION Smart card is one of the greatest achievements in the world of information technology. Similar in size to today ’s plastic payment card‚ the smart card has a microprocessor or memory chip embedded in it that‚ when coupled with a reader‚ has the processing power to serve many different applications. As an access-control device‚ smart cards can be used to access server remotely over the Internet and they can make personal and business data available only to the appropriate users. Smart cards
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Life Change from a Hypothetical Plane Crash Introduction When I stepped into the office for the interview it was a far cry from the body shop I was just at a short hour before. I accepted the part-time position as a bookkeeper for the Christian owned tax service firm and was excited about the prospective of being one step closer to getting fully out of my current position at the body shop. My interviewer was the owner’s wife and she seemed like someone that I could learn from as she invited
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Southwest Asia is the term geographers’ use when referring to the Middle East. "Middle East" is a political term coined by the British in the 1930’s to distinguish the region from both the Far East‚ which included China‚ Japan and Indochina‚ and the Near East‚ which included portions of Western Europe. All of these areas are truly only "east" of Europe. In order to emphasize a more global perspective‚ geographers prefer to use the politically neutral term "Southwest Asia" because it does not connote
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The human resource department of any airline is the backbone of the organization. The employees in this department are responsible for multiple tasks. These tasks can range anywhere from hiring and firing employees to developing a training system for all airline pilots to go through. Working in the aviation industry has shown me many ways in which having a human resource department is vital to an organization’s success. The human resource department knows everything there is to know about how
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spur ubiquitous computing researches. Smart dust is a tiny dust size device with extra-ordinary capabilities. Smart dust combines sensing‚ computing‚ wireless communication capabilities and autonomous power supply within volume of only few millimeters and that too at low cost. These devices are proposed to be so small and light in weight that they can remain suspended in the environment like an ordinary dust particle. These properties of Smart Dust will render it useful in monitoring real
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using fuel efficiency. Their plan has no class difference. They spend more times in the air rather than other airlines. They make very simple to their customers. Southwest has never offered meal service. They provide only cookies and beverage. Offering meal service can be $40 in their price. 2. What are the foundations of Southwest’s competitive advantage? Answer: Even though Southwest had many basics for success‚ a noticeable competitive advantage could be found in its cost structure. They really
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Southwest has made an organization out of providing low-fare‚ short haul routes between city pairs. It has concentrated specifically on offering low-fares on all of its flights by maintaining its no frills attitude and high frequency of flights. This has afforded Southwest Airlines with the lowest cost structure in the industry. Southwest has created a niche for itself by flying a network of flights between smaller U.S. cities that average just one hour apart. This has differentiated them from
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