Case study 2.5 –Ryan air: Flying High in a competitive Atmosphere 1. How important is the role of operation in achieving competitive advantage at Ryanair? Ryanair competitive advantage is based on cost leadership strategy‚ maintaining the lowest prices among low-cost airlines (Haberberg and Rieple‚ 2008). In 2011‚ Ryanair became the most profitable low cost carrier in the world (www.ryanair.com). How operations support competitive advantage of Ryanair is measured by five performance objectives:
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market share‚ profitability‚ segments they focus which is required for business and competitor intelligence needs • Contains a brief study of the major internal and external factors affecting Hotels in the form of a SWOT analysis as well as analysis the PEST analysis and Porters 5 force analysis to understand the criticality of the business. MAJOR PLAYERS The major players in the Indian hotel industry can be broadly divided into private sector players and the public sector players. The Top Players in
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Air France-Making the Sky the best place on the Earth Air France ‚ stylized as AIRFRANCE‚ is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en- France‚ (north of Paris). It is a subsidiary of the Air France–KLM Group and a founding member of the Sky Team global airline alliance. As of 2013 Air France serves 36 destinations in France and operates worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to 168 destinations in 93 countries (including overseas departments and territories of France) and also
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INTRODUCTION Air India is India’s national airline‚ owned by the Government of India. It was started as Tata Airlines‚ a private venture by the Tata Group‚ in 1932. It was nationalised by the government in 1946 and renamed Air India. For a long‚ long time‚ Air India has been the sole Indian airline flying overseas. Later‚ another airline Indian‚ also owned by the government‚ started operating in select Asian routes. In 1962‚ Air India became the world’s first all-jet airline and its name was
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SWOT analysis of AirAsia Strengths Firstly‚ Air Asia has indeed a strong management team. This is clearly known as it has very strong links with the governements and airline industry leaders.This is partly contributed by the diverse background of the executive management teams which consists of industry experts and ex-top government officials. For example‚ Shin Corp (formerly owned by the family of former Thai Prime Minister - Thaksin Shinawatra) holds a 50% stake in Thai AirAsia. This has
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POLITICAL ASPECTS • Political uncertainty in Malaysia with Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi set to step down in March 2009. • Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak is expected to take over the ruling-coalition party‚ but with a cloud of allegations. • Political unrest in Thailand recently when anti-government protesters recently blocked flights for a week at Bangkok’s main airports. • ASEAN nations have been pushing Indonesia to scrap its Rp.1 million ‘Fiscal’ charge to all Indonesian citizens and
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technology. Ellison and his co-founders‚ Bob Miner and Ed Oates‚ realized there was tremendous business potential in the relational database model—but they may not have realized that they would change the face of business computing forever. SWOT Analysis Oracle has a growth strategy that focuses on acquisitions of complementary companies‚ products‚ services and technologies. Over the previous 4 years‚ Oracle has significantly invested in acquiring companies like BEA Systems in 2008‚ Hyperion
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Ryanair and Marketing Strategy: Segmentation Introduction Ryanair was established by the Ryan family with a capital share of just £1‚ and a staff of 25. The company launched its first route in July with daily flights on a 15-seater Bandeirante aircraft‚ which operate daily from Waterford in the southeast of Ireland to London Gatwick. In order to operate in the tiny cabin of the aircraft‚ the first cabin crew of Ryanairs is less than 5ft. 2 ins. tall (Ryanair‚ n.d.). Ryanair
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------------------------------------------------- What do people think of RyanAir? Consumer Behavior ------------------------------------------------- Date: October 15th 2012 ------------------------------------------------- Table of contents Introduction 3 The research design 4 Sample description 4 Method for interviewing 4 Research structure 4 Step 1: Collect pictures 5 Step 2: Interview method 5 Step 3: Concept map 5 Step 4: Combined concept map 5 Step 5: Consensus
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Version 1.0 Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats Analysis for AirAsia 1.0 Strengths Ø Air Asia has a very strong management team with strong links with governments and airline industry leaders. This is partly contributed by the diverse background of the executive management teams which consists of industry experts and ex-top government officials. For example‚ Shin Corp (formerly owned by the family of former Thai Prime Minister - Thaksin Shinawatra) holds a 50% stake in Thai AirAsia
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