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    AirTran poses many obstacles for SWA’s sales strategy. The acquisition will threaten the pricing structure of SWA. It will give them the opportunity to raise its fair‚ as there is less competition in the Northeast (where AirTran serves) and major airlines have paired off leaving only five major players (Huffington post‚ 2010). Further promoting a fare increase is SWA’s refusal to charge for baggage. Although‚ this is a great sales tactic‚ it provides no source of revenue‚ resulting in a fare increase

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    Southwest Airlines in 2008 - 2009: Analysis and Recommendations Analysis Performed By: American Consulting Group‚ LLC CEO: Michael A. Evans Table of Contents Letter of Appreciation to Gary Kelly‚ CEO ……………………………...3 Executive Summary ……………………………………………..........4 Appendix 1 ……………………………………………………………….10 Appendix 2 ……………………………………………………………….11 Appendix 3 ……………………………………………………………….12 Appendix 4 ……………………………………………………………….13 Appendix 5 ……………………………………………………………….15 Appendix

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    Southwest Airlines 2008 Introduction : While the airline industry in the USA has not made thriving financial headlines‚ Southwest Airlines has emerged as a successful organization. It has been able to make profit consistently and has sustained itself through difficult situations like recession‚ energy crisis‚ and September 11 terrorist attacks. Problem Statement : The problem under consideration here is: How can Southwest Airlines achieve a sustainable growth in future in spite of increasing

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    Southwest Airlines Introduction: Southwest Airlines is a passenger airline based out of Dallas‚ Texas that provides air transpiration throughout the United States. Southwest is currently the 6th largest U.S. airline based on revenue. It currently has more than 3‚100 flights in 73 cities‚ making it the largest U.S. carrier passenger airline. They provide good options‚ such as early check-in‚ hotel packages‚ car rental‚ and free luggage up to two bags‚ which are one of their techniques to provide

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    Question: 01 Name at least two things that Southwest is doing efficiently. Name at least two things that Southwest is doing effectively. In what ways do efficiency and effectiveness support each other at Southwest? In what ways do they contradict each other? Ans. Southwest Airlines is one of the important Airline of USA. Southwest Airlines may only rank 317 on the Fortune 500 List but the company ranks highly on most publications’ Most Admired Companies lists. Efficiency means using resources

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    Southwest Airlines Resources Tangible Resources Financial Resources - Southwest has always managed its cash well . In the financial year 2001 ‚ the airline had generated 64 ‚446 ‚773with an operating income of 821 ‚659 and a credit value very good Physical Resources - In all the cities it operates instead of having agents or computerized booking system Southwest has its reservation centre and vending machines at the airports . Previously Southwest only operated in cities near Texas ‚ but started

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    Southwest Airlines Tracy D. Braswell Benedictine University The domestic airline industry is emerging from its lost decade. Carriers suffered two recessionary swoons (one due to September 11) and a fivefold jump in fuel prices causing fifteen carriers to go bust. As frequent fliers know too well the salvation for most airlines has been to stick passengers with fees‚ reservation changes‚ bags‚ food‚ movie and headset to name a few. None of it‚ however‚ went to Southwest Airlines two and

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    (1) What is the Southwest¡¦s position along the four dimensions? a) Geographic scope Southwest airline provides point-to-point service between midsize cities and secondary airports in large cities. This can help avoiding congestion in large airports and hence save an average 20% of average flight time. b) Choice of business (corporate portfolio) SWA focuses on only airlines services‚ especially the short-haul flights. c) Vertical Integration decision Southwest airline does all of its own ticketing

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    Southwest Airlines’ Corporate Strategy & Control System Southwest Airlines became one of the most admired airlines in the world based on their dedication to their customers and the corporate strategies their leadership instituted. Their leadership created a different corporate culture that CEO Herb Kelleher and his company are devoted to the philosophy of putting employees first (Govindarajan‚ pg. 115). In doing so‚ Southwest was able to instill a management control system that relied on

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    Contents Page 1. An Introduction to Southwest Airlines 1.1 Beginnings 1 1.2 Culture

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