All About Chase’s New United MileagePlus Explorer Card By RON LIEBER For United Airlines customers wondering about the fate of their miles-earning credit cards in the wake of the airlines merger with Continental‚ the airline offered up an answer today. It’s a new Visa card called the MileagePlus Explorer. The annual fee is $95‚ which is more than the $60 that many United customers are paying for the entry-level mile-earning Visa currently. But the new card comes with a number of benefits. Cardholders
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Strategy and Policy Case 2. Southwest Airlines. I- Strategic Profile and Case Analysis Purpose Southwest airlines were founded in 1971 by King and Herb Kellerher. They started with a low cost strategy in a risky market where profitability depends a lot on fuel prices and external factors‚ such as the willingness of consumers to pay ticket prices. They started growing a lot with various strategies that permitted them beat a lot of their competitors‚ but in order to stay in the market they
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The U.S. Airline Industry in 1995 2. a) American Airlines’ 1992 air fare strategies resembled its early to mid-80s SuperSavers program. It offered discounts of up to 45% on round-trip flights of at least 7 days‚ purchased 30 days in advance. Previously‚ air fare pricing was a simple structure of first class/coach and peak/off-peak categories. Robert Crandall‚ of American Airlines‚ introduced a new air fare system known as yield management. The simple price structure was unbundled to unleash multiple
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Currently the airline industry as a whole seems to be on the road of recovery. We‚ American Airlines‚ the fourth largest carrier recently avoided bankruptcy‚ but had a summer full of pressure due to ongoing union struggles and questionable executive compensation packages. After having incurred such big losses‚ this recovery has come about because of the government bailout and many of our large competitors’ abilities to survive the turbulence in the industry. So far‚ the prospects look promising
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................20-21 I. Corporate Governance BaronsAir has a dynamic group of people in its management team. Each has their own duties to benefit the success of the airline. Organization‚ responsibility‚ and knowledge will drive the airline and each of the team players to success. was a former manager of Mid-Continent Airlines. The new company re-formed‚ BaronsAir‚ was named after her after she came up with the idea to have the employees buy all the company stock. The three other executives were
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8: Marketing strategies CHAPTER SUMMARY Summary (CHAPTER 8: Marketing strategies‚ page 211) • The marketing mix consists of four major elements: product‚ price‚ promotion and place. • Combined with these four Ps are people‚ processes and physical evidence to create the extended marketing mix. • Together‚ these seven Ps make up the strategies of marketing and become the centrepiece of the marketing plan. • The main goal of a marketing manager is to develop and maintain a marketing mix
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What is Offensive Marketing? When more than one company offers the same kind of product‚ each company only receives a percentage of all sales of that kind of product. This percentage is called a “market share‚” and any effort to take some of the market share away from one company and bring it to another is called an offensive marketing plan. (See also Flanking Marketing) In the above case of the motorcycle business of the mid-to-late 20th century‚ the Harley Davidson Company saw its market share
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Chapter 1 Marketing in Today’s Economy Exercise 1.1 CarsDirect http://www.carsdirect.com 1. Explore the CarsDirect website‚ including pricing a vehicle of your choice. How successful is CarsDirect in reducing the hassles associated with buying an automobile? 2. Does the design of the CarsDirect website convey confidence and trust in the car buying process? How has CarsDirect answered consumers’ concerns over the lack of a human element in their marketspace? Exercise 1.2 Daytona
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MARKETING STRATEGY The field of marketing strategy considers the total marketing environment and its impacts on a company or product or service. The emphasis is on "an in depth understanding of the market environment‚ particularly the competitors and customers." A given firm may offer numerous products or services to a marketplace‚ spanning numerous and sometimes wholly unrelated industries. Accordingly‚ a plan is required in order to effectively manage such products. Evidently‚ a company needs
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Marketing strategy is defined by David Aaker as a process that can allow an organization to concentrate its resources on the optimal opportunities with the goals of increasing sales and achieving a sustainable competitive advantage. Marketing strategy includes all basic and long-term activities in the field of marketing that deal with the analysis of the strategic initial situation of a company and the formulation‚ evaluation and selection of market-oriented strategies and therefore contribute to
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