Strategic Management Ryanair has grown to be the leading European low cost airline (Figure 1) since its foundation in 1985. This essay analyses a Ryanair case study (Durham University Business School case study) and seeks to assess Ryanair’s competitive strategy‚ success factors‚ distinctive capabilities
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the world by different companies‚ and every state had his own company. We could think that Ryan air‚ battled this ‚ in fact they used the liberalism of the other airlines companies to put themselves in the Market. The fact was that in this time‚ only the big companies that used to be the only ones had the permission to operate in the important airports. That’s a bad point for Ryan air‚ because it’s important to captivate the customer where he is. And they are in the big airports
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Management Questions. 1. Leadership a. Michael O’Leary is credited with the fabulous expansion of ryanair. Compare his managerial style with Richard Brandson of Virgin and Stelios Haj-Ioannou of Easy Jet. Do you see similarities‚ differences? O’Leary is said to have a pugnacious and aggressive management style‚ using a flat management hierarchy whose ethos is to provide a low cost‚ reliable and competitive service. Ryanair decided to hire O’Leary and sent him to the States for studying
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Out of the 45 options‚ a co‐branding between Ryan Air and Bic would be most logical. Both brands have similar characteristics and an extraordinarily similar customer base. Other co‐branding possibilities could be Air France‐Bic‚ Coca‐cola – Burberry‚ Dove – Airfrance. The first has potential because both companies are French and have strong brand images. However‚ Air France does not match Bic’s customer base as well as Ryan Air does. Coca‐cola and Burberry both have rich histories and a strong
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analyse the future opportunities and threats which Ryanair is likely to face in currently and in the future. Ryan air have developed a cost focus strategy‚ where it focuses on reducing cost to obtain a competitive advantage. The following discussion will show just how efficient the company has implemented this strategy. 2. Introduction In 1985 Ryanair was established by the Ryan family to provide travelers an airline service from Dublin to the United Kingdom. Ryainair ’s strategic model was
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How costly would be for Aer Lingus and Brisith Airways to retaliate against Ryan Air’s launch rather than accommodate it? Currently‚ British Airways and Aer Lingus cannot compete in price at the range that Ryan Air is planning to operate. I believe that British Airways and Aer Lingus would be better off maintaining current prices and differentiating through the service that they offer‚ in the same way that they are. The current cost breakdown offered by the case shows that if British airways
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social-cultural‚ technological‚ environmental‚ and legal. These categories consider the external environment the firm under analysis‚ addressing the macro-environment of Ryanair through its categorising different factors. Whereas the VRINE‚ five forces‚ and value chain models are focused specifically on industry environment rather than individual firms. Furthermore‚ the SWOT analysis is suited to examining the internal and external status of a firm‚ making it not as suitable as PESTEL model in analyising the purely
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Ryanair’s launch strategy seems it will be successful because of their ability to enter the market without setting off alarms with competitors (BA & AL). They plan to do this by entering the market slowly with only one route (Dublin-London)‚ a 44-seat turboprop as opposed to a large 747 and by servicing only secondary airports. This strategy is key because it does not confront the major airlines directly and will allow Ryanair to build its brand‚ knowledge of the industry and a customer base without
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Ryan Air was founded in 1985 by the Ryan family to provide scheduled passenger airline services between Ireland and the UK‚ as an alternative to the then state monopoly carrier‚ Aer Lingus. According to (2001) Ryan Air was the first low-cost‚ nor frills airline that had an impact on the European airline industry. When launched in 1985 targeted the Irish ethnic market between Ireland and the United Kingdom by offering a more or less traditional type of service with a two-class cabin but at significantly
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Ryan Air Case Study Strategic Management Names: Table of Contents Step 1: Identifying the positioning questions 1.1 Summary of the case pg. 2 1.2 Main Questions & Problems pg. 3 1.3 How was the strategy developed? pg. 3 Step 2: Gathering & analyzing the facts 2.1 Ryan Air Environment Analyses pg. 3 2.2 Ryan Air Strategic Capability Analyses pg. 5 2.4 Ryan Air Competitive Strategy & Business Model Analysis pg. 5 2.5 Ryan Air Stakeholder expectations & purposes Analysis
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