Professor: Elena Vidal (EV) Moustafa Elkholy November 4th‚ 2014 BPL 5100 Case Write-ups (Southwest Airlines) 1. What do you see as the issues the company is facing? The distance between the employees (The managers and the top management) has been increased. Before the leadership change‚ the top management was very close to the employees. That change causes a radical change in the company’s culture. Southwest experienced an increase in the fuel and wages cost. Southwest failed
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Recommendations Structural recommendation Obviously‚ the type of the organizational structure that MP used is Vertical Coordination. MP is a movie&record industry‚ so its product is relatively simple. Vertical Coordination is the most basic and ubiquitous way to harmonize the efforts of individuals‚ units‚ or divisions is to designate a boss with formal authority. In this structure，departments just focus on their core tasks‚ workers who have the same specialty are get together and seem to be more
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Business Report Airline 6-------Airline business simulation game Report of the Ho’s Airline Business Report Airline 6-------Airline business simulation game Introduction Business plan Our company is called the HO Airline Company and we set ‘HO’ as our IATA code. The business plan of our company is as follows: Network: International and Domestic (both long and short haul) Aircraft Seating: Standard On board Catering: Standard Main Source of Income: Cargo and Passengers Cabin for both long
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Malaysia Airlines system is the symbol of flag carrier of Malaysia and owned by the government which is shelter under Tan Sri Md Nor Yusof as the Chairman‚ Ahmad Jauhari Yahya as the Managing Director and Mohd. Rashdan Mohd. Yusof as the Resign member. This airline is founded in 66 years ago on 1 May 1947 as the name of Malayan Airways then after Malaysia gained independence the airline being renamed as Malaysian Airways and it is started the commenced of operation in 41 years ago on 1 October 1972
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Indian Airlines is the oldest carrier in the domestic aviation industry. It has been the main stay for domestic air travel in India for more than 45 years. With the arrival of other private airlines‚ its interests have been hurt‚ but it is continuing it’s quest to be the leader in this industry. During the research‚ the main objectives of the study have been: a)To understand the perception of travellers towards Indian Airlines. b)Also to apprehend the perceptions of travel
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ONLINE TICKETING IN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY: THE GLOBAL IMPACT Chiang-Nan Chao‚ St. John’s University‚ Jamaica‚ NY‚ USA Robert J. Mockler‚ St. John’s University‚ Jamaica‚ NY‚ USA Dorothy G. Dologite‚ Baruch College‚ New York‚ NY‚ USA ABSTRACT As consumers move away from the traditional approach of buying airline tickets in the past years‚ airlines are benefiting from cost reduction due to the rapid increase in paperless e-ticket sales and restrictive use of traditional travel agencies. However‚ when
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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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Running head: REGIONAL INTEGRATION PAPER Regional Integration Paper University of Phoenix July 19‚ 2010 Regional Integration Paper To define regional economic integration would be to say to arrange an agreement between country’s that agree to manage trade‚ fiscal or momentary policies. Regional economic integrations is also defined as “agreements among countries‚ in geographic region to reduce‚ and ultimately remove tariffs‚ and nontariff barriers to the free flow of goods‚ services‚ and
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working on the problem‚ he chose to eliminate the problem by using reverse psychology such as penalizing their incentives such as downgrading their accommodation such as from five stars to three stars. The aim of the company was to re-structure the airline without putting their publicity at risk. The need to hire younger staffs to be in line with the new image became crucial for Silvertail. The existing pool of older crews suffered tremendous consequence such as benefits and privileges was reduced and
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Southwest Airlines Abby S. Boeltram BCOM/230 June-Monday‚ 2013 Jeff Gofter Southwest Airlines Organizational culture is the collective behavior of people‚ who comprise an organization‚ and this behavior affects the way people and groups within the organization interact with others‚ internally and externally. Founder of Southwest Airlines‚ Herb Kelleher is credited with creating an organizational culture that unique in America today and which has propelled Southwest to the number one spot
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