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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Lectures and Tutorials Course No Cours Title Course Planner MGT207 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 13460 :: Tej Bir Kaur Text Book: Other Specific Book: Lectures Tutorial Practical Credits 4 1 0 1 Dessler‚ G. Varkkey (2009)‚ 11th edition‚ Human Resource Management‚ Pearson Education 2 Ivancevich‚ J.M. Human Resource Management‚ Tata Mcgraw Hill 3 Rao‚ P.S (2008) Essentials Of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relation‚ Text and Cases‚ Himalaya Publishers. 4 Jyothi
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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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low-fares service. Ryanair aims to offer low fares that generate increased passenger traffic while maintaining a continuous focus on cost-containment and operating efficiencies. The key elements of Ryanair’s strategy are: Low Fares. Ryanair’s low fares are designed to stimulate demand‚ particularly from fare-conscious leisure and business travelers who might otherwise have used alternative forms of transportation or would not have traveled at all. Ryanair sells seats on a one-way
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focused on a S.W.A.T. analysis on Ryanair‚ was fully based on internet web sites. For full information‚ refer to the bibliography at the end of he report. 3. Findings 3.1 Strengths a. Leadership in the low-cost sector • “Ryanair was Europe’s original low fares airline and is still Europe’s largest low fares carrier. Currently the company carries over 35m. passengers on 325 low fare routes across 21 European countries”( Ryanair). As a matter of fact Ryanair is currently the largest low-cost company
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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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Ryanair Marketing Mix Product or Service. - Low cost‚ no frills air travel to European destinations. - No free food or drink onboard. You buy them onboard‚ or you don’t. You can take your own food and drink. - The company has deals with Hertz car rental‚ and a number of hotel businesses‚ phone cards and bus tickets. Ryanair takes a commission on ’up selling’. About 16% of profit is made this way. Price - Ryanair has low fares. -70% of seats are sold at the lowest two fares. 30% of seats
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do you expect Aer Lingus and British Airways to respond? There could be 4 ways to respond: 1. Start price war with Ryanair by immediately reducing AL and BA prices: unsustainable due to high overheads. 2. Gradual cost cutting (staff reduction‚ less customer service‚ less perks‚ lower quality travel‚ outsourcing of services‚ etc.) to bring pricing structure in line with Ryanair: without losing core competence‚ brand value and profit at bigger stage where they are now profitable. However subsidizing
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order. In this paper‚ we develop a linear programming model for integrated planning and scheduling of supply hub activities. We assume that all stakeholders in the supply hub share information on their capacities‚ schedules and cost structures. Based on this information the model addresses the issue of production and delivery scheduling‚ for the manufacturer and its suppliers‚ for optimal profit. The model was solved using optimization tools provided by ILOG. Keywords : Supply Hub‚ Collaborative
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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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