JetBlue and WestJet: A Tale of Two IS Projects How important is the reservation system at airlines such as West Jet and JetBlue. How does it impact operational activities and decision making? Over the past years‚ it seems customers have heavily relied on airline reservation systems to book their tickets‚ reserve seats‚ pay for the tickets‚ and check-in-online. This has been very convenient for customers to plan their trips. These systems have also allowed the airlines to manage their whole flight
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HAMLINE UNIVERSITY Individual Case Study: JetBlue Airways Corp‚ WestJet Airlines Ltd‚ and others: The Difficult Path to Software Upgrades Introduction I would argue that any organization undergoing system upgrades should ensure that the end result of such an upgrade must align with its business process and
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Company Overview WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian low-cost carrier that provides scheduled and charter air service to 85 destinations in Canada‚ the United States‚ Europe‚ Mexico‚ Central America and the Caribbean‚ and has partnership agreements with over 30 airlines around the world. Founded in 1996‚ it is currently the second-largest Canadian air carrier‚ behind Air Canada. (Wikipedia) WestJet is a public company with more than 9‚600 employees‚ is non-unionized and is not part of any airline
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Chapter I Introduction The research is conducted intend to know what kind of job Business English Student of Assumption University prefers to do after their graduation. The problem under the topic is do they know exactly what kind of job they want to do when they have graduated from Assumption University. This study aims to discover the average of each career that Business English at Assumption University want to do when they graduated. There are the seven research and objective questions that
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WestJet Strategic Audit by: Tanya Witherington #3136712 Abdullah Saleh #3157594 Tyler Ethridge #3084252 Natasha King #265841 Yao Yao #3111635 Jaiqi Lu # BA 4101 March 21‚ 2005. Daniel Doiron UNBSJ West Jet I. Current Situation A. Current Performance • WestJet owned 28% of the domestic air market share in 2004 vs. 25% in 2003. • For the year ended December 31‚ 2004
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Introduction: JetBlue is planned to establish by David Neeleman in July 1999. Although the terrorist attacks of 9/11 made the huge loss of the whole airline industry‚ JetBlue airways try to publish its own IPO after 2 years of profitable operation in 2002‚ This case study is summarizing the step to publish the IPO. Following this‚ it will discuss the disadvantage and advantage to publish the IPO and use the financial data to evaluate the price is suit for the first publish. In this case‚ there
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UPDATING As the Case says itself JetBlues history has severely changed since its financial and operational fallout at 2007 February Valentine´s day that took several days to finish and had strong repercussions against the company’s brand and reputation; surprisingly in June 19th of the same year (2007) JetBlue ranked highest in J.D. Power and Associates North America Airline Customer Satisfaction Study; focusing more on the history and progress of JetBlue during the past seven years (2007-2014)
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state of OP4.com ’s culture at its Vancouver head office would survive this restructuring. NOTE 1. Source: Jupiter Communications‚ 2000. WESTjET AIRLINES (A): THE CULTURE THAT BREEDS A PASSION To SuccEED Prepared by Ken Mark under the supervision of Professor Gerard Seijts Copyright© 2001‚ lvey Management Services INTRODUCTION It was April 17‚ 2001‚ and WestJet ’s market capitalization had just surpassed that of Air Canada ’s‚ the country ’s leading airline. "We ’re in the hospitality business and
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What Is an Organization’s Culture? What’s Culture? Definition by Edgar Schein: a property of an independently defined social unit A unit whose members have a significant number of common experiences in successfully addressing external and internal problems Common experience -> shared view on world view and problem solving Shared view -> basic assumptions on responses to external and internal problems that the group have collectively tackled Culture is only found where there is a definable
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JetBlue Beginnings and Operational Methods Steve Brindza Ohio Dominican University JetBlue Beginnings and Operational Methods This section details the history of JetBlue‚ focusing on the activities of founder‚ David Neeleman. JetBlue Airways‚ based in Forest Hills‚ New York‚ was founded in February‚ 1999‚ by David Neeleman‚ the son of Mormon missionaries. He was born in Sao Paolo‚ Brazil‚ but raised in a tightly-knit Mormon family (Gajilan‚ 2003). After
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