http://www.southwest.com Employees: 34‚901 Employee growth: 0.5% Southwest Airlines will fly any plane‚ as long as it’s a Boeing 737‚ and let passengers sit anywhere they like‚ as long as they get there first. Sticking with what has worked‚ Southwest has expanded its low-cost‚ no-frills‚ no-reserved-seats approach to air travel throughout the US to serve almost 70 cities in some 37 states. Now among the leading US airlines‚ Southwest still stands as an inspiration for scrappy low-fare upstarts the
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Southwest Airlines 2002: An Industry Under Siege Case Study “Discussion Format” MGMT 5113 Team 7 Dag Yemenu Sachin Gupta Michelle May Shaun Evans November 22nd 2003 Problem Overview Southwest Airlines has employed unique operational strategies‚ incorporating industry revolutionizing methodologies‚ while developing and sustaining a strong corporate culture that has allowed Southwest Airlines to be profitable for a phenomenal 30 straight years and capture the Airline Industry
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BASIC STRATEGY: In order to make up for increasing expenses Southwest needs to expand. My recommended strategy for Southwest to pursue‚ is to merge with Air-Tran and expand into areas where Air-Tran has a heavy presence and Southwest has none. With Southwest having a weak presence in the southeastern U.S.‚ a key area to expand would be Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International‚ which is the busiest airport in the U.S. There is obviously a need for the low air-fare company at this site. Southwest’s
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Industry background/history The airline industry experienced growing revenues throughout the 1990s. At the turn of the new millennium‚ there was a drastic change to this trend. A major devastation to the airline industry came after the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001. The industry recorded losses of $7.7 billion for the year and revenues went down 13.5% after a record $93.6 billion in 2000. The industry struggled throughout the following years. Recovery from losses was difficult in those
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Analysis of Southwest Airlines Module: Business Management Vanessa Eelma Alyssa Julianna Farkas Thomas Schillinger Peter Lukacs Attila Radvanszki Adam Radvanszki 29th November‚ 2010 Word Count : XXXX Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Literature Review 4 2.1 General Introduction of Theories Used 4 2.2 SWOT Analysis 4 2.3 External Factors 4 2.4 Organizational Structures 4 2.5 Hofstede’s Theory 5 2.6 Cultural Elements 5 2.7 Motivation 5 3 Analysis of Southwest
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Tommy Johnson Chapter 13 is titled “Scheduling Operations” and it is mainly about scheduling decisions for batch operations and how they deal with the allocation of scarce resources to jobs‚ activities‚ tasks‚ or customers. “Scheduling results in a time-phased plan‚ or schedule‚ of activities. The schedule indicates what is to be done‚ when‚ by whom‚ and with what equipment. Scheduling should be clearly differentiated from aggregate planning” (Schroeder‚ pg. 293). Chapter 14 is titled “Project
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Jianxin Bi (Bob) 2/26/2012 BUS 500F Professor: Assael Can’t Decide On The IPhone 5? Here’s What It’s Good For:1/25/2013 To rock the bargain boots or go all out for a pair of Uggs? To drink Absolut or indulge in some Grey Goose? To keep the iPhone 4 or splurge on the iPhone 5? It’s no secret that the more enticing retail options tend also to be the pricier ones. So before impulsively buying the latest trends‚ it’s fair to question whether or not item quality substantiates
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Analysis of Southwest Airlines and the Airline Industry in the US Patricia E. Vazquez TABLE OF CONTENT Abstract . . . . . . . . . 03 Introduction . . . . . . . . . 04 A Foundation of “Love Options” . . . . . 04 Southwest Airline’s Strategies . . . . . . 05 Southwest Airline’s Operations . . . . . . 06 Southwest Airline’s Performance . . . . . . 06 Southwest Airline’s Competitors . . . . . . 07 The Airline Industry in the US . . . . . 07 Rivalry‚ Magnify for
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Southwest Airlines SWOT & PEST Analyses Xavier Quarterman 10/9/2012 Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines is an air travel company that was started in 1971 by two men‚ Rollin King and Herb Kelleher (Russell 2005). Their goal was to combine airline travel with low cost and a sense of fun‚ today that goal has grown into one of the world’s richest and most profitable airlines today. But as with any business it is necessary to formulate strategies that can help the company stay on track of achieving
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Southwest Airline of the Future Mike Reeder Indiana Wesleyan University June 24‚ 2013 SOUTHWEST AIRLINE OF THE FUTURE Southwest has a strong excellent reputation shown in the Diamond Award that it won this past year in the Air Cargo World’s Air Cargo Excellence (Southwest Among Repeat Winners‚ 2013). Another strength of Southwest is that it has been in business for the last 42 years and made it 36 years in a row with a positive profit
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