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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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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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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The Organization: WestJet Competitors: AMR Corporation (American Airlines)‚ Air Canada‚ Alaska Air Group‚ Inc. Markets: Vacation goers who would prefer flying instead of driving long hours and business travelers where they can get a faster service because they have to be somewhere in a specific time. Industry (or sector): Airline Industry The Macro-environment: Political‚ Economic‚ Social‚ Technological‚ Environmental and Legal POLITICAL: Transport Canada regulates the pre-board security
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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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November 15‚ 2011 Company Overview Westjet‚ established in1996‚ is a low-cost Canadian airline company specializing in flights to various destinations in Canada‚ the United States‚ the Caribbean and Mexico. It is a non-union‚ self-run employee organization that focuses on world-class guest experience at an affordable rate. Westjet prides itself on a corporate culture that blends devoted employees with efficient service. Westjet’s business plan‚ since day one‚ has been focused on a distinct
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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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WestJet Case Study WestJet is a Canadian low-cost carrier‚ which was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Calgary‚ Alberta. WestJet is Canada’s second largest airline with high per cent of the domestic market. It provides scheduled and charter air service to 86 destinations in Canada‚ the United States‚ Mexico‚ the Caribbean and Central America. WestJet operates an average of 425 flights and carrying over 45‚000 passengers per day. In 2012‚ WestJet carried 17‚453‚352 passengers‚ making it the ninth-largest
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WestJet Westjet Airline WestJet Airline was founded in 1996 by Clive Beddoe and a team WestJet airlines were started with the philosophy that just because you pay less doesn’t mean you should get less. Clive Beddoe and team started their journey with three aircraft fly to five destinations and 220 friendly WestJetters — a journey that would help them become a company of more than 8‚800 passionate WestJetters flying one of the youngest fleets of Boeing 737 Next-Generation aircraft to more than
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QUESTIONS REGARDING THE CASE “WESTJET AIRLINES: THE CULTURE THAT BREEDS A PASSION TO SUCCEED” 1. What is WestJet’s competitive advantage? What are the sources of the competitive advantage? Their main competitive advantages are low prices and exceptional customer service. The low prices can be offered because they offer no meals‚ no frequent fliers and have a very fast turnaround at the gate‚ landed on airports that have low landing fees. in addition to this WestJet’s
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