Conclusion | 9 | References | 10 | Word Count: 2061 Introduction Ryanair was founded in 1985 by the Ryan family‚ which was headed by Tony Ryan. It was the first budget airline in Europe‚ modeled after the successful US carrier‚ Southwest Airlines. It was founded to provide scheduled passenger airline services between Ireland and the UK‚ as an alternative to then state monopoly carrier‚ Aer Lingus. At the beginning‚ Ryanair was a full service conventional airline‚ with two classes of seating‚
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and core competences. With using Ryanair as an industrial example‚ this essay would talk about how important strengths and weaknesses are to be used in designing strategy. Ryanair was founded in 1985 by Tony Ryan who already died in 2007. It was originally a full service airline and turned into a low-cost carrier in 1990s. Ryanair used a series of cost-cutting policies to attain to the target as its mission statement (Ryanair Annual Report‚ 1999): “Ryanair will become Europe’s most profitable
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Ryanair Case Analysis 1. Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Substitute: In this industry‚ there are high substitution power because if one airline decides to raise prices then customers are going to switch to a cheaper airline company. The majority of passengers are price sensitive and have the option of taking other forms of transportation such as the rail or ferry. Customers are willing to travel longer if they can pay for a cheaper fare. The round fare for ferry and rail is 55
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10 « RYANAIR. FLY CHEAPER » BSS008S-3 Applied E-Business ASSIGNMENT 1 (10 December 2010) TOPIC N°1 ABSTRACT This report presents the e-business company RYANAIR. Throughout it we are going to find what type of competitive advantage the company pursues‚ what factors help it creating a superior customer value‚ what impacts this kind of company has on the whole industry and finally what are the controversial issues about RYANAIR. Mainly‚ RYANAIR is a low-cost airline company which
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Strategy Introduction Ryanair is an airline company‚ which is well known for its low cost airline service across Europe. Christy Ryan‚ Liam Lonergan and note Irish businessman‚ Tony Ryan‚ founded the company in 1985 in Ireland (with a share capital of only £1 and 25 employees according to Business-market.com). Ryanair was restructured in 1991 by Michael O’Leary. He reported revenues of €3‚629 Billion for the fiscal year of 2011‚ bringing profits of €374‚6 Million‚ leading Ryanair as on the oldest and
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Ryanair is considered to be the largest low fares airline in Europe. They have over 800 low fare routes across 26 different countries‚ so this gives you an indication as to the scale of this employer. Despite being a low budget airline‚ they are anything but budgeted when it comes to their staff. With real incentives and genuine opportunities for career progression‚ staff at Ryanair are valued for the hard work they do in helping to run one of the most successful budget airlines in the world. With
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COMPANY PROFILE Ryanair Holdings (Ryanair or ‘the company’) operates low fare scheduled passenger airline serving short haul‚ point to point routes between Ireland‚ the UK‚ and Continental Europe‚ as well as Morocco. It is headquartered in Dublin‚ Ireland and employs about 8‚560 people. The company recorded revenues of E3‚629.5 million ($4‚796.7 million) during the financial year ended March 2011 (FY2011)‚ an increase of 21.5% over FY2010.The operating profit of the company was E488.2 million ($645
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Ryanair’s average flight represents just 442 miles which is the equivalent of average length of passenger haul. This is a relatively small number that can be explained by the fact that Ryanair does not offer transatlantic flights‚ but focuses exclusively on routes between Ireland‚ the UK and Continental Europe. If one divides the number of employees at period end by the employees per aircraft served at period end one receives the number of airplanes‚ in this case 41‚38 airplanes. Furthermore one
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Table of Contents Introduction 5 Step 1: Identification of the main problem 5 1.1 Summary 5 1.2The strategic development of Ryanair 6 1.3 The main problem and resulting questions 8 Step 2: Gathering the facts 9 2.1 Environment 9 2.1.1. Macro environment 9 2.1.2 Meso environment 11 2.2 Strategic capabilities 13 2.3 Competitive strategy 14 2.3.1 Robustness 14 2.3.2 Cost efficiency 15 2.4 Economical information 16 2.5 Expectations and purposes 18 2.5.1 Stakeholders 18 2.6 Overview derived facts: SWOT
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Europe. The market share leader is Ryanair. Important competitors are EasyJet‚ Air Berlin and the two smaller airlines: Norwegian Airlines and Wizz air. Also Aer Lingus can be seen as a competitor‚ despite the share of Ryanair in the carrier. Due to the economic recession opportunities for budget carriers increased. By mid-2009‚ budget airlines accounted for over 35% of scheduled intra-European traffic. Different players on the low-cost airline market Ryanair is an low-cost carrier‚ positioned
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