ANALYSIS OF SELECTED AIRLINE¡¯S PROSPECTS Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 3 2. Trends and Strategies in the Airline Industry: a Brief Overview 3 3. Airline Profiles 5 3.1 Southwest Airlines 5 3.2 United Airlines 5 3.3 American Airlines 5 4. The Impact of Acquisitions and Mergers 6 4.1 United Airlines/USAir 6 4.2 American Airlines/Trans World Airlines 7 4.3 Southwest Airlines/ATA 7 5. The Impact of Bankruptcy Proceedings on Untied Airlines 8 6. Effect of United Airlines Chapter 11 Proceedings
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Delta Airline Case 1- During the 1990’s‚ none of the five largest air carriers in the United States earned its cost of capital. Why do such low rates of return on investment persist in the airline industry? That’s correct‚ airline companies margins were below the average for US industries for a long time‚ especially after the 1978 deregulation. For 40 years‚ prior to 1978‚ the airline companies had operated under the regulation of the CAB (Civil Aeronautics Board)‚ which was responsible for
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Case #20 – Southwest Airlines Company History 1966 Rollin King approached Herb Kelleher’s law office with plan to start low-cost/lowfare airline Ran into legal problems‚ rival airlines in Texas did everything they could to block new airline Herb Kelleher was determined to start up airline 1971 – Lamar Muse Southwest CEO‚ background in industry to get it up and starting Raised $7 million in capital and private investors to purchase planes and equipment Flights started between Dallas
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Southwest Airline Analysis The goal of this paper is to explain the prominent success of Southwest Airline in the United States through a single case study analysis making use of the McKinsey’s 7-S framework. Developed in the early 1980s at the McKinsey & Company consulting firm by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman‚ this framework looks at 7 internal factors (Structure‚ Strategy‚ Systems‚ Style‚ Staff‚ Skills‚ Super-ordinate goals) which‚ according to its authors‚ need to be aligned for an organization
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INTRODUCTION Background in Brief Ryanair was established by the Ryan family with a staff of 25. Its first route was launched in 1985 with a 15-seat aircraft ferrying passengers between Waterford in Ireland and London. In 1986‚ Ryanair launched its route from Dublin to London to challenge British Airways and Aer Lingus‚ the two dominant airline carriers on that route‚ by offering fares at lower prices. With two routes in operation‚ Ryanair carried 82‚000 passengers in its first full year of
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Southwest Airlines has been known for is inexpensive flights and upbeat‚ jokester employees since 1971. In 1980‚ Southwest adopted its mission statement as‚ “A dedication of customer service delivered with ‘a sense of warmth‚ friendliness‚ individual price and company spirit”. (Anonymous‚ 2005‚ p. 16). In 1997‚ Southwest Airlines celebrated its 25th anniversary. “The celebration centered around ten philosophical principles‚ such as ‘under promise but over deliver’ and ‘take competition seriously
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carriers (LCC) entered the market‚ as well as charter airlines (CC) (cheap cause crappy times) Change is costs (hubs and smoke vs point-to-point without a home base)‚ based on several routes Concentration became lower‚ amount of competition became bigger and market share distribution over larger amount of companies. Concentration looking at intercontinental flights changed less‚ mainly international and domestic flights. Momentarily 240 airlines covering 84% of total passenger travel. Top 10 companies
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One of the Unites State’s biggest airlines‚ United Airlines‚ has rewarded two hackers who spotted major security hols in its website. The airline has given the two hackers one million free flight miles each. The airline operated a “bug bounty” scheme that rewards hackers for privately disclosing security flaws instead of sharing them on the internet. They have awarded the maximum reward of one million free flight miles‚ which is equal to over a dozen trips to these two hackers. Security experts
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Thomas Line Advanced Managerial Finance IPO Paper Spirit Airlines This paper will be about an IPO that was filed by Spirit Airlines for $300 million dollars in September of 2010. According to www.marketwatch.com‚ Spirit Airlines is the first airline to go public in 3 years. The last airline to go public before Spirit was Gulfstream International group in December 2007. Spirit plans to use half or 150 million for cash reserves ‚ working capital‚ and other corporate purposes.
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Background THE NORTH-SOUTH AIRLINE Northern airlines merged Southeast Airlines to create the fourth largest U.S. carrier in which it inherited both an aging fleet of Boeing 737-300 aircraft and Stephen Ruth. As the new president of the airline‚ Stephen’s first concern is to create a financially solid company since it is a common presumption for airline industries that maintenance costs rise with the age of aircrafts. He noticed that there have been significant differences in the reported B727-300
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