Southwest Airlines 2002: An Industry Under Siege Case Study “Discussion Format” MGMT 5113 Team 7 Dag Yemenu Sachin Gupta Michelle May Shaun Evans November 22nd 2003 Problem Overview Southwest Airlines has employed unique operational strategies‚ incorporating industry revolutionizing methodologies‚ while developing and sustaining a strong corporate culture that has allowed Southwest Airlines to be profitable for a phenomenal 30 straight years and capture the Airline Industry
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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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After establishing a unique business model in the airline industry‚ Southwest has had its fair share of imitators. Yet none of these efforts at reproducing the success of Southwest have reached expectations. There are many reasons why imitators of Southwest have struggled so much but one of the biggest is the success of Southwest’s human resource management. Southwest is able to pay its employees less than the other major airlines yet get more production out of them. This is due to Southwest’s family
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labelled as a major contributing factor (Webster and Gribble‚ 2010; Akbari et al.‚ 2006). Rehabilitation of the ankle through neuromuscular training following an injury is a vital cog in the recovery wheel (Chaiwanichsiri et al.‚ 2005). The ‘Star Excursion Balance Test’ (SEBT) is a highly effective rehabilitative tool that has
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Norwegian airlines started its operations in 1993 on a regional basis‚ however‚ only appeared on the market as a low-cost carrier on a small scale in 2002. The company is currently operating a mixt fleet of Boeing 787 and Boeing 737-800’s aircrafts. Now‚ Norwegian Airlines are holding eighteen destinations across Europe and USA. Norwegian Airlines succeeded to launch low-cost long haul flights from Gatwick to USA‚ and are currently awaiting AOC approval to launch flights from Ireland to US. This
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JetBlue added E190 to its fleet. By late 2006‚ JetBlue like other airlines‚ faced softening demand and higher costs due to increasing fuel prices. Barger played a large role in the airline’s decision at the end of 2006 to slow its rate of growth by reducing its purchase commitments for new planes. In light of the operational challenges JetBlue faced in Feb 2007‚ as well as the unabated rise in fuel costs‚ Barger realized that the airline would need to take further steps to slow its rate of growth. Given
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CASE PROBLEM: President’s Advisors President gets advice from his pool of advisers every time he needs to make a decision. He has 13 top advisers that he really relies on. But if all of them are involved in any decision‚ they always end up in an argument where more often than not‚ the final decision is not achieved. To resolve this‚ a scheme was devised where only 5 of the 13 will be randomly chosen to decide on a certain matter. They achieved this by having the 13 advisers arrange themselves
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Southwest Airlines (A) Case Study 1. In June 1971‚ air transportation was not seen to be the primary transportation tool because of all the time wasted from checking in‚ expensive price‚ and air time. Therefore‚ SWA was not only competing with other airlines‚ but also on ground public transportations. SWA had to come up with a marketing strategy that will convince people that they are different from Braniff and other airlines that were seen to be inefficient and poor punctuality. SWA utilize
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Singapore Airlines – Case Analysis Situational Analysis Singapore Airlines (SIA) began with the incorporation of Malayan Airways Limited (MAL) in October 1947.The incorporated companies were the Ocean Steamship Company of Liverpool‚ the Straits Steamship Company of Singapore and Imperial Airways. The airline’s first flight was chartered from the British Straits Settlement of Singapore to Kuala Lumpur in April 1947 using an Airspeed Consul twin-engine airplane. SIA has remained competitive
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