3110 L1 Case Report: Southwest Airlines What is SWA’s competitive strategy? What does it take to execute the competitive strategy? The SWA has adopted ‘Cost Leadership’ as its competitive advantage. And it has achieved low cost through numerous ways. To commence with‚ the Southwest workforce routinely turn around an aircraft in only 15 minutes and its gates are manned by a single agent and have a ground crew of six or fewer‚ which are much lower than other airlines. In other words‚ the SWA needs
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SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION(SRS) FOR AIRLINE DATABASE Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Purpose 1.2 Document Conventions 1.3 Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions 1.4 Project Scope 1.5 References 2. Overall Description 2.1 Product Perspective 2.2 Product Features 2.3 User Classes and Characteristics 2.4 Operating Environment 2.5 Design and Implementation Constraints 2.6 Assumptions and Dependencies 3. System Features 4. External Interface Requirements 4.1 User Interfaces 4.2 Hardware
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1. Threat of New Entrants - The easier it is for new companies to enter the industry‚ the more cutthroat competition there will be. Factors that can limit the threat of new entrants are known as barriers to entry. Some examples include: • Existing loyalty to major brands • Incentives for using a particular buyer (such as frequent shopper programs) • High fixed costs • Scarcity of resources • High costs of switching companies • Government restrictions or legislation Power of Suppliers
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Classic Airline Marketing Solution Mkt/571 Marketing November 20‚ 2012 Introduction Classic Airlines is the fifth largest airline serves 240 cities with more than 2‚300 flights per day. The airline earned $10 million on $8.7 billion in sales last year (“University Of Phoenix Material”‚ 2008). . Although a profitable airline the increasing uncertainty of flying‚ Classic Airline’s stock
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Philippine Airlines has also moved its low-fare unit PAL Express and its affiliate Air Philippines into Terminal 3. The PAL Express service from Manila include flights to the Caticlan gateway to the resort island of Boracay‚ to Busuanga Island in Palawan province‚ to Calbayog City in Samar‚ San Jose City in Occidental Mindoro‚ Surigao and Virac in Catanduanes. The return flights will also disembark at the new terminal. All Air Philippines flights have also shifted their departure and arrival operations
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2. SWOT Analysis 2.1 Strengths 1) Focus on point-to-point service. This service provides more direct nonstop flights that can minimize delays and total trip time. 2) Low operating costs - Use a single type of aircraft (Boeing 737) that makes scheduling‚ operations‚ maintenance‚ and training more simplified. - Outfit the fleet with fuel-saving‚ performance-enhancing blended winglet that extend flight range‚ save fuel‚ and reduce engine maintenance costs and takeoff noise. - Fuel cost saving
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has never been more important for an airline to have the right public image. If the national flag and perhaps a catchy logo on planes‚ counters and ticket covers were sufficient in the olden days‚ today branding is a science of its own. Half a dozen branding agencies‚ most of them based in London and the USA‚ are fighting not just on behalf of toothpaste or cars but‚ with dogged determination‚ in the aviation industry over budgets worth millions. "The airlines are much more conscious today that branding
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AIRLINE REGULATIONS Research Paper AVSC 1220 TREVOR CARTER ID # 10524707 *The airline industry operates like the veins of the United States by pumping precious cargo throughout the country. Most *people don’t realize how different the airlines were a few decades ago. The entire industry was regulated by the government. Regulation is usually considered a more socialistic liberal idea that is opposed by conservative capitalists. Although I personally believe in a government with a small
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1978‚ President Carter signed into law the Airline Deregulation Act. The purpose of the law was to effectively get the federal government out of the airline business. By allowing the airlines to compete for their customers’ travel dollars‚ was the thinking‚ that fares would drop and an increased number of routes would spring up. Expected Results The results of airline deregulation speak for themselves. Since the government got out of the airline business‚ not only has there been a drop in
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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CASE STUDY BY Aurelio Montelongo Jr. June 22‚ 2012 Southwest Airlines is in an environment whose conditions for most in this type of industry have been anything but profitable. So why is it that Southwest Airlines‚ who has been profitable in this volatile market been able to make money? Though Southwest did have a losing quarter it was not due to lack of fliers or its service to its customers‚ but an investment in its fuel hedging cost. As fuel dropped in price‚ Southwest
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