ALBUKHARY INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION STUDIES PROGRAMME 2011-2012 ALBUKHARY INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION STUDIES PROGRAMME 2011-2012 Assessment Task: Team Project (10%) Type of assessment: Four persons in a team Starting Date: Week 5 Ending Date: Week 10 Learning Outcome tested: 1. LO1 – Explain the difference between data and information‚ the economics and problems associated with information. 2. LO2 – Distinguish between different types of technologies for acquiring
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Company overview: Air Asia After acquiring Air Asia from the Malaysian government in 2002‚ Tony Fernandes completely altered the business model of its previous owners and re-established the company with just 3 air planes. Owing debts of about 11 million U.S‚ this move was very risky; however by offering low cost prices‚ the company was able to attract sufficient travellers. After acquisition‚ 5 years later Air Asia became renowned globally as the least expensive airline in terms of cost per seat
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resource base (i.e. aircraft types‚ hubs‚ employee skills) and core competencies and capabilities (i.e. cost and efficiency optimization/utilization) as a low-cost carrier (LCC) airline. Analysis The airline industry as a whole is quite competitive with multiple players and various elements effecting the industry environment. AirAsia has developed a specific set of resources and core competencies that it has exploited in order to become the leading short-haul LCC in South East Asia. AirAsia’s
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Version 1.0 Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats Analysis for AirAsia 1.0 Strengths Ø Air Asia has a very strong management team with strong links with governments and airline industry leaders. This is partly contributed by the diverse background of the executive management teams which consists of industry experts and ex-top government officials. For example‚ Shin Corp (formerly owned by the family of former Thai Prime Minister - Thaksin Shinawatra) holds a 50% stake in Thai AirAsia
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SWOT analysis of AirAsia Strengths Firstly‚ Air Asia has indeed a strong management team. This is clearly known as it has very strong links with the governements and airline industry leaders.This is partly contributed by the diverse background of the executive management teams which consists of industry experts and ex-top government officials. For example‚ Shin Corp (formerly owned by the family of former Thai Prime Minister - Thaksin Shinawatra) holds a 50% stake in Thai AirAsia. This has
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SWOT ANALYSIS FOR AIR ASIA Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats Analysis for AirAsia Strengths The first phase of the swot analysis is the strengths analysis for Air Asia. There are some unique strengths of Air Asia that others company could not defeat them. First and foremost‚ Air Asia has a very cooperative and strong management team with strong connections with the government and the airline industry leaders.This is partly contributed by the diverse background of
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Objectives 37-46 6.0 Marketing Strategy 47 6.1 Target Market 48 6.1.1 Behavioral Factors 48 6.1.2 Demographic Factors 49-50 6.1.3 Psychographic Factors 50-51 6.2 Marketing Mix 52 6.2.1 Product 52-54 6.2.2 Price 54-55 6.2.3 Place 55-57 6.2.4 Promotion 57 6.2.5 People 58 6.2.6 Performance 58 6.2.7 Process 58 6.2.8 Programs 59 7.0 Marketing Implementation 60 7.1 Marketing Organization 61-63 7.2 Activities
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Q1.Competitive Advantage Explain Competitive advantage Air Asia build up their competitive advantage form providing customer lowest price and omit theunnecessary service. For example‚ Air Asia install kiosks to speed up check-in. With those innovations‚ it truly making aviation become more convenient. The customers and the operations are around Asia. Air Asia use IT to connect and integrate those end-to-end support processes. As a member of the AirAsia Team have highly competitive and
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Management 08 Fall AirAsia Company Analysis Background of AirAsia Company Dato’ Tony Fernandez was the entrepreneur that brought up AirAsia to be the one of the award wining the largest low fare airlines that is currently well known for now in Asia. Since then it has been flying to over 61 domestic and international destination with 108 routes‚ and furthermore it operates over 400 flights daily from hubs that are basically located in Malaysia‚ Thailand and Indonesia. Today if we look at their
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Information management of Air Asia Air Asia adopted information technologies strategically to integrate the operations and coordinate all the business and management functions. There are respectively 3 information management system used by Air Asia. Air Asia has implemented all the three systems in their marketing‚sales activity and as well as in their operating chain. (1) Yield Management System (YMS) • YMS has aided AirAsia to increase the revenue by offering higher discounts‚ more frequently
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