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    Southwest Airline Analysis

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    Executive Summary Southwest Airlines has been a strong growth company over the last 35 years. Using its low-cost‚ passenger friendly‚ point-to-point operational strategy‚ Southwest has been able to sustain considerable growth year after year and remain profitable for 33 straight years. While Southwest has gained market share in recent years‚ legacy carriers have struggled due to depressed market conditions. The entire airline industry has endured expensive labor contracts‚ soaring energy costs and

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    Southwest Airlines Southwest Airline started out in 1967 and has been different even from its inception. The airline flew to three cities at first and allured customers with flights that departed and arrived on time at the lowest rate possible. This was important to business people that needed to get to and from Dallas‚ Houston‚ and San Antonio on business (History‚ 2013). It was also important to make sure people had a good time while traveling and dedicated their business to a high quality

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    Southwest Airlines 2008

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    Case #20 – Southwest Airlines Company History  1966 Rollin King approached Herb Kelleher’s law office with plan to start low-cost/lowfare airline  Ran into legal problems‚ rival airlines in Texas did everything they could to block new airline  Herb Kelleher was determined to start up airline  1971 – Lamar Muse Southwest CEO‚ background in industry to get it up and starting  Raised $7 million in capital and private investors to purchase planes and equipment  Flights started between Dallas

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    Southwest Airlines Culture

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    Southwest Airlines has been known for is inexpensive flights and upbeat‚ jokester employees since 1971. In 1980‚ Southwest adopted its mission statement as‚ “A dedication of customer service delivered with ‘a sense of warmth‚ friendliness‚ individual price and company spirit”. (Anonymous‚ 2005‚ p. 16). In 1997‚ Southwest Airlines celebrated its 25th anniversary. “The celebration centered around ten philosophical principles‚ such as ‘under promise but over deliver’ and ‘take competition seriously

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    Southwest Airline Analysis

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    Southwest Airline Analysis The goal of this paper is to explain the prominent success of Southwest Airline in the United States through a single case study analysis making use of the McKinsey’s 7-S framework. Developed in the early 1980s at the McKinsey & Company consulting firm by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman‚ this framework looks at 7 internal factors (Structure‚ Strategy‚ Systems‚ Style‚ Staff‚ Skills‚ Super-ordinate goals) which‚ according to its authors‚ need to be aligned for an organization

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    Case 3-1: Southwest Airlines Corporation What is Southwest’s strategy? What is the bases on which Southwest builds its competitive advantage? Cost cutting SWAC uses a low-cost strategy. They had the lowest operating-cost structure in the domestic airline industry. Employee satisfaction Together with this strategy‚ they want to achieve customer satisfaction by employee satisfaction. They are famous for their customer and employee relationship. SWAC has been recognized by multiple organizations

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    Keller Business School of Management HRM 594 Staffing Organizations Professor Burnell Carden August 24‚ 2013 Introduction The intent of this paper it to define critical concepts of strategic planning with Southwest Airlines (SWA) top management and how their organization pursued choices and different strategies to run the business by using superior performance employees that gave them a competitive advantage over their competitors. I will concentrate on the thirteen strategic

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    Management within Southwest Airlines An Assessment of Four Function of Management within Southwest Airlines According to Edward de Bono "an expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgments simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and ... Creativity involves breaking out ..." Southwest Airlines has done just that‚ in a world of high competition and drastic changes they paid close attention to their customers needs‚ therefore‚ succeeding when many other airlines were failing

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    Southwest Airlines 2011

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    Southwest Airlines 2011 Diagnosis: Southwest airlines began first flight in 1971. They experienced finance loss only in the first year. Southwest’s company vision is to keep a low fare with better customer service. According to different surveys‚ Southwest airline has the highest margin in all years except 2007 and passenger yield. Southwest has lowest average revenue passenger miles per passenger‚ load factors‚ unit costs per available seat per mile‚ and net debt. In order to maintain their

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    Southwest Airlines Essay

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    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 airlinesSouthwest still stands as an inspiration for scrappy low-fare upstarts the

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