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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(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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AirAsia is a budget airline that is popular with the slogan‚ ’Now Everyone Can Fly’. With this slogan reflects an airline AirAsia to consumers at lower and middle class. Various services that have been provided by AirAsia which is reserve your service‚ payment service‚ checking service‚ inflight service‚ Insurance AirAsia‚ AirAsia credit card and others. Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is the first airline in Malaysia‚ which since 1970 has more. In the year 2005‚ Malaysia Airlines reported a loss of RM1
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Southwest Airlines in 2010: Culture‚ Values‚ and Operating Practices Assignment Questions 1. Is there anything that you find particularly impressive about Southwest Airlines? 2. What grade would you give Southwest management for the job it has done in crafting the company’s strategy? What is it that you like or dislike about the strategy? Does Southwest have a winning strategy? 3. What are the key policies‚ procedures‚ operating practices‚ and core values underlying Southwest’s efforts to implement
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BUSINESS Air Asia leading airline was established with the dream of making flying possible for everyone. Since 2001‚ Air Asia has swiftly broken travel norms around the globe and has risen to become the world’s best. With a route network that spans through to over 20 countries‚ Air Asia continues to pave the way for low-cost aviation through our innovative solutions‚ efficient processes and a passionate approach to business. Together with our associate companies‚ Air Asia X‚ Thai Air Asia‚ Indonesia
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Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines has long been one of the stand-out performers in the U.S. airline industry. It is famous for its low fares which are often some 30% lower than those of its major rivals. These are balanced by an even lower course structure‚ enabling it to record superior profitability even in bad years such as 2002‚ when the industry faced slumping demand in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Indeed‚ from 2001 to 2005‚ quite possibly the worst 4 years in the
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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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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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marketing activities in order to compete and to survive in the competitive business. After a few days of discussion‚ four of us decided to choose company in airline service sector. The reason we are choosing this sector is because we found out its interesting and attractive part. As a result‚ we had finally choose the AirAsia Sdn Bhd airline. The reason why we choose this company is due to its luxury and satisfied service that we had experienced and this had inspire us want to know more about this
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Contents Page 1. An Introduction to Southwest Airlines 1.1 Beginnings 1 1.2 Culture
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