JET BLUE AND WESTJET: A tale of two IS projects 1. How important is the reservation systems at airlines such as WestJet and JetBlue. How does it impact operational activities and decision making? Over the past years‚ customers have been heavily relying on airline reservation systems to book their tickets‚ reserve seats‚ pay for the tickets and also check-in online. For customers‚ this has been a very convenient method and they are able to easily plan their trips. For the Airline companies
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EasyJet EasyJet Airline Company Limited headquartered at London Luton Airport is the UK’s largest budget airline measured by number of passengers carried‚ operating domestic and international scheduled services. Easy Jet has grown through a combination of acquisitions and base openings fuelled by consumer demand for low-cost air travel. Ryanair another budget airline is currently Easyjet’s biggest competition. EasyJet has adapted cost-cutting measures such as not selling
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Etihad-Jet Airways deal Etihad Airways of the United Arab Emirates and Jet Airways of India yesterday announced that the UAE national carrier has agreed to subscribe for 27‚263‚372 new shares in Jet Airways at a price of INR754.74 per share. The value of this equity investment is $379 million and will result in Etihad Airways holding 24 per cent of the enlarged share capital of Jet Airways. Etihad Airways’ wider overall commitment to Jet Airways includes the injection of $220m to create and strengthen
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Journal of Case Research Volume II Issue 02 Communicating in a Crisis and the Role of a Business Leader: The Case of Jet Airways Payal Mehra1 Jet Airways: Background Jet Airways (India) Private Limited was a reputed private airline in India with an average fleet age of 4.45 years. Jet flew to 63 destinations spanning the length and breadth of India and beyond‚ including New York (both JFK and Newark)‚ Toronto‚ Brussels‚ London (Heathrow)‚ Hong Kong‚ Singapore‚ Kuala Lumpur‚ Colombo
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Jet Star Marketing Objective Jet Star is a subsidiary airline of Qantas‚ it is founded in Melbourne‚ Australia in 2004 starting with 400 employees and up to date they have 7‚000 employees under them. Jet Star is one of the largest low- cost airline carrier in the Asia Pacific by revenue Jet Star objective is to offer all day‚ everyday low fares to allow more people to fly to different places more often. From the advertising slogan of Jet star “All day everyday low fares” we are able to know their
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The Jet Engine and the Revolution in Leisure Air Travel‚ 1960-1975 Peter Lyth Air transport for European tourists got off to a shaky start in the late 1920s. 1 But it was to be thirty years before leisure air travel was to appeal to anyone but the rich and adventurous. High cost‚ fear of flying and the absence of toilets in early airliners (an unfortunate combination) were the main deterrents; the unpressurized aircraft of the inter-war years were noisy‚ slow and not especially comfortable
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Audict on Easy jet(the factors that can influnce the company) A)Five porter’s forces: *Threats from new entrants : When new airlines enter the market ‚how they affect easy jet *Threats from subsititue products: more options to go to a destination such as buses‚train..how these things affect easy jet *Bargaining power of suppliers: if plane manufacturer factories sell planes with a high price ‚how this affect the easy jet’s finance *Bargaining power of buyers: for instance easy jet makes a contract
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Bibliography: Air India‚ 1932 Mumbai Arvind Jadhav‚ Chairman & MD Jet Airways‚ 1993 Jet Lite (Formerly Air Sahara)‚ 1991 Kingfisher Airlines‚ 2004 Kingfisher Red (Formerly Air Deccan)‚2003 New Delhi Indigo Airlines‚ 2005 Spice Jet‚ 2005 New Delhi Siddhanta Sharma‚CEO & COO Go Air Airlines‚2005 Paramount Airlines‚ 2005
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Jet Streams Jet streams are strong westerly winds that blow in a narrow band in Earth ’s upper atmosphere at the same altitudes at which airplanes fly. They form because of temperature variations between the poles and equator. There are two occurrences that results in the Jet Streams. The first occurrence would be when hot air rises from the tropics towards the North and South Poles subsequently the second occurrence is as the hot air is moving to the north and south poles from the tropics‚ the
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ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS – JET AIRWAYS Background of the Company Jet Airways was incorporated as an "air taxi" operator on 1 April 1992. It started commercial airline operations on 5 May 1993 with a fleet of 4 Boeing 737-300 aircraft‚ with 24 daily flights serving 12 destinations. In 1991‚ the late P.V. Narasimha Rao‚ Prime Minister of India at the time‚ introduced an "open skies" policy as part of India’s economic liberalisation. This opened doors for privately owned "air taxi" operators to start
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