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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The managers of the Ryanair chose discovering the opportunities in the market. Evaluating all the facts‚ Ryanair chose low cost strategy which was quite successful decision. By using cost advantage strategy‚ the firm tries to maintaining lower cost (C) at the same time achieving willingness to purchase for customers (B) that is comparable to their competitors. The Ryanair had low costs compared to the competitors due to some reasons. To begin with‚ they were late movers which mean that they benefited
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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 can calculate the sectors each airplane flies each day. Therefore one starts
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Nova School of Business and Economics 2012/2013 DOGFIGHT OVER EUROPE: RYANAIR Case Study This set of questions refers to Version (A): 1. Which kind of customers was Ryanair trying to attract when‚ in 1999‚ Michael O’Leary took charge of the firm? Those with a low price elasticity of demand or those with a high price elasticity of demand? Explain. Considering that we are talking about the same product‚ in an industry with many firms‚ where producers and consumers know all quoted prices
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Do a five forces analysis of the airline industry in 1999 with the information available in the case study - Threat of new entrants o Airport slot availability • There is limited access to airport slots as national airlines had access to the best slots in the major airport hubs and new entrants to the market would only have little success as they would be given none or off-peak slot allocations at the airports • So-called grandfather rights at certain airports. • For instance in Heathrow
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Case 5 - A Dogfight over Europe: Ryanair Key Issue: The key issue in this case is that Ryanair’s competitive advantage is based on offering customers an easy-to-imitate low price. While it may be operationally effective‚ they have no strategic positioning. Supporting Arguments: Ryanair’s low prices were not a strategy to gain market share. They were simply out of necessity to stay afloat as their sales plummeted. However‚ as their prices dropped to increase sales‚ they did manage to generate
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world. A corporate’s strategy mainly based on three steps: Identify the strategic position‚ make strategic choice and make strategic actions. Each step includes different aspects. When we identify the strategic position‚ we should analyses both internal and external environment‚ consider the purpose‚ capability and culture. After we identified the strategic position‚ we should make strategic choices‚ and when we are making strategic choices‚ we should consider from the business level‚ corporate level
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Science in Business and Entrepreneurship Assignment 1 Business Strategy and Creativity Case Study of Ryanair Submitted by Prasanna Pavuluri Student Number: D14124072 Date of Submission: 28 November 2014 Table of Contents No table of contents entries found. (1)Introduction Presently low-cost has airways transformed the airlines industry. More and more consumers prefer lesser prices over luxuries. In 1970s United States domestic airline company named southwest introduced the low-cost business model
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International Strategic Management Coursework 2011/12 Case study analysis: Ryanair – the low fares airline: wither now? Executive Summary The purpose of this paper is to use analysis of the airline industry and of Ryanair to highlight the firms’ successes thus far. It also considers the sustainability of the current strategy by viewing the future of the firm and its competitors. Using Porter’s five forces‚ the VRIO framework and the SWOT analysis it gains intimate information on the factors
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1. Strategy of Ryanair Overview of the Company Ryanair started in year 1985 with only 57 staff members and with one 15 seater turboprop plane from the south of east of Ireland to London-Gatwick which carried 5000 passengers on one route (Harrison‚ 2002). In 1986‚ inspired from the story of David and Goliath the company go after the big guys for a slice of the action and end up smashing the Aer Lingus or British Airways high fare cartel on the Dublin-London route. The staff increased
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