Diego Rodriguez‚ Deema Alomar‚ Seungyeon lee 10/05/09 Case Analysis Southwest Airline final draft Jennifer Uhler BPE reading‚ writing research Background Summary Southwest Airlines based in Dallas was founded in 1967 by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. It is one of the major domestic airliners which provides carrier and transportation service. This company has 35‚499 employees and it runs over 500 Boeing 737 aircraft in 67 cities in the US. Southwest’s principal values are: Providing low-fare and
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Survey among airlines. Airline industry is a labor intensive service sector as much as capital intensive and mainly white collor workers are employed. In the industry computerized electronic systems are highly used. In order to produce an aviable seat for sales‚ there are many interconnected services are gathered such as resevation‚ ticketing‚ operations‚ passenger traffic‚ handling of passenger‚ baggage and cargo‚ catering‚ maintenance (MRO)‚ training‚ fuelling etc. While airlines render many
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Executive Overview: Lufthansa is the largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried. By 2002‚ Lufthansa had become of the strongest airlines and top aviations groups in the world. Lufthansa had undergone a decade of fundamental change. Lufthansa was transformed from a state-owned‚ unprofitable national airline into one of the most profitable‚ privately owned aviation groups in the industry. The group turned a record loss of €350 million in 1992 into a pre-tax profit of €952 million in
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Case Study Southwest Airlines Course: Services Marketing 3rd Term Southwest Airlines (SWA) began services in 1971. In 1972‚ court order no charter flight beyond Texas in order to make up for the lost revenue they were forced to sell aircrafts and keep just the ones needed to continue business and operate scheduled services. Schedule could be kept if the turning time of a plain was low enough (10 minutes). Nevertheless‚ Dallas-based SWA achieved 40 consecutive years of profitability and an
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how the airline industry does to make up for the profits with their new “simplified low-cost pricing.” It’s also the sign that major carriers like AA‚ Delta‚ and UA are being forced to cut some of their expensive prices as rival discount airlines rapidly expand. So far‚ the price-cutting is still happening only in certain cities‚ and not nationwide. They are doing that technique to attract customers from other airlines and to create customer loyalty among regular flyers. Meanwhile‚ the airline needs
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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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Haryana‚ India. The airline started operations in August 2006 and currently holds the largest market share with 24.9 per cent in India. Ranking 11th among the 25 biggest low-cost airlines in the survey done by the CAPA (Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation) Indigo emerged as one of the largest low-cost airlines. Its capacity increased 34.6 per cent ; IndiGo and Indonesia’s Lion Air’s capacity growth is the second highest among all low-cost carriers ‚ only second to Spane’sVueling Airlines ‚ which added 40
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KFA was an airline for people with a taste for luxury. While its astronomical fares pushed it out of the bounds of the country’s biggest consumer section - the middle class - the airline’s in-flight service standards were set too high to maintain for a long time . Fliers were treated to expensive wine‚ quality food and best entertainment facilities even on domestic‚ short distance flights. The airline staff‚ till the time they got their salaries‚ were among the best paid in the country
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Introduction Case studies Learning excellence: Southwest Airlines’ approach Ulla K. Bunz and Jeanne D. Maes The authors Ulla K. Bunz and Jeanne D. Maes are based at the University of South Alabama‚ Mobile‚ AL‚ USA. Abstract In an era in which adapting to change means survival‚ it is important to study what successful organizations have done. While the airline industry in the USA has not made thriving financial headlines‚ one small company has been able to satisfy its customers completely
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Identify Current Strategy Southwest Airlines Co. is a major domestic air carrier that is "the world ’s only short-haul‚ high-frequency‚ low-fare‚ point-to-point carrier" according to the President and CEO Herb Kelleher. Southwest has always been able to quickly seize any strategic opportunities whenever they arise. Southwest is the only company to ever hold the Triple Crown for annual performance. Some of the key factors that contribute to Southwest ’s success are its conservative growth pattern
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