world’s best in year 2001. AirAsia continues to spread out the way for low-cost aviation through the innovation‚ efficient and passionate approach to businesswith a route a network that extent through over 20 countries. There are some companieswhich link withAirAsia such as AirAsia X‚ Thai AirAsia‚ Philippines’ AirAsia Inc.‚ AirAsiaJapan and Indonesia. In addition‚ for the vision part in AirAsia‚ AirAsia aims to be the largest low cost airlinein Asia and serving the 3 billion people who are currently
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LCCs (Low Cost Carriers) first emerged in 1950‚ by the Pacific South Airlines started offering nothing but low prices on air travel. Followed by the great success of Southwest Airlines from 1967 onwards‚ as well as facilitated by the liberalisation in air transport market‚ it has been in centre stage of the global civil aviation industry ever since. In spite of facing many challenges such as high oil prices‚ softening demand‚ surplus capacity‚ new participants as well as subsidiaries from FCCs (Full
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factors for the low-cost airline industry Figure 1 illustrates the process followed to determine the key success factors (KSF) in the low-cost airline industry. It is adapted from the process developed by Grant (2005: 93). The texts highlighted in red are the responses to the questions posed in the model and serves as the inputs to the discussion on the KSFs for the low-cost airline industry. Figure 1. Identifying key success factors in the low-cost airline industry. Cost As consumers become
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The Low-cost Orange Flying Machine: The Case of easyJet Introduction The colour orange is increasingly becoming synonymous with the firm easyJet as it has become one of the world’s most profitable low-cost airlines (Alamdari and Fagan‚ 2005). This paper examines the basis of their success and argues firstly‚ that easyJet from its inception essentially adopted and stayed with the original low-cost model that was pioneered by Southwest airlines in the USA. Moreover‚ this is a model that has served
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Paper Outline two possible ‘likely futures’ for the low-cost airline industry. The low-cost model in the airline industry‚ pioneered by Southwest Airlines‚ continues to bring profitability‚ success and challenges to airlines in markets across the world. Low-cost airlines continue to put pressure on the traditional ‘legacy’ airlines to compete while engaged in an intense rivalry with direct low-cost competitors. This paper argues that the low-cost airline industry is likely to (i) look to long haul
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“CHALLENGES FACING LOW COST AIRLINES IN INDIA” BY RANJIT SHERGILL MODULE CODE - AE3260 BSc(Honours) AIR TRANSPORT OPERATIONS PART 3 I declare that all work presented in this dissertation is my own work‚ and where applicable I have credited the work of others by stating the source of certain information in quotes. This project has been overseen by Mr S.K.Ramchandran who is the Regional Director for the Indian Airports Authority in Southern India‚ who has endorsed the views and the conclusions
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The product comparison between Network Carriers and Low Cost Carriers and forecasting the future market trends and global competition in airline industry The deregulation in United Stated (US) since 1978 caused the emergence of new airline business models which are dynamic and competitive. The negotiation is less restrictive air services agreements contributed the explosion of new entrants with innovative business models entering the market. This phenomenon spread to Europe called
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Proceedings of the 13th Asia Pacific Management Conference‚ Melbourne‚ Australia‚ 2007‚ 431-436 Competitive Strategy for Low Cost Airlines Hongwei Jiang RMIT University‚ Australia Abstract The aim of this paper is to identify challenge faced to Low-Cost Carriers (LCCs) or Low-Cost Airlines and provide new insights into the development and competitive strategy for LCCs. LCCs are still a relatively new phenomenon in Australia since Virgin Blue and Jetstar came to the market. There are over 30 LCCs
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Survival Of Low Cost Airlines In India Do We Need New Strategies?? Introduction The liberalization of aviation industry in India has precipitated the boom for domestic & international passenger carriers. The domestic passengers & cargo traffic recorded a growth rate of 20% & 8.5%. The Airport Authority of India manages total 119 airports in the country which includes 7 international airports‚ 94 airports & 28 civil enclaves. The four airports are under PPP Greenfield airports i.e. Delhi
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study - Low cost airlines History of low-cost airlines The idea of LCC originated in the US. Founded in Dallas Texas on June 18‚ 1971 by Herb Kelleher‚ Southwest Airlines offered tickets that worked out to be cheaper than a car or coach ride. It is the fourth largest US airline in terms of domestic customers carried annually. It has been profitable every year since 1973. Low cost airlines in India But a booming economy‚ a congested and crumbling train network and the emergence of low-cost
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