...Since 9/11, our nation has been obsessed with air-travel security. Terrorist attacks from the air have been the threat that looms largest in Americans' minds. As a result, we've wasted millions on misguided programs to separate the regular travelers from the suspected terrorists -- money that could have been spent to actually make us safer. Consider CAPPS and its replacement, Secure Flight. These are programs to check travelers against the 30,000 to 40,000 names on the government's No-Fly list, and another 30,000 to 40,000 on its Selectee list. They're bizarre lists: people -- names and aliases -- who are too dangerous to be allowed to fly under any circumstance, yet so innocent that they cannot be arrested, even under the draconian provisions of the Patriot Act. The Selectee list contains an equal number of travelers who must be searched extensively before they're allowed to fly. Who are these people, anyway? The truth is, nobody knows. The lists come from the Terrorist Screening Database, a hodgepodge compiled in haste from a variety of sources, with no clear rules about who should be on it or how to get off it. The government is trying to clean up the lists, but -- garbage in, garbage out -- it's not having much success. The program has been a complete failure, resulting in exactly zero terrorists caught. And even worse, thousands (or more) have been denied the ability to fly, even though they've done nothing wrong. These denials fall into two categories: the...
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...struck Malaysian Airlines MH-370, the fear of air travel is high. To overcome this fear, I have planned that the Bosnia and Herzegovina team would be flying from Sarajevo International Airport to Rio De Janeiro through Lufthansa Airlines, which is considered the safest airline across the globe amongst all the airlines by leading travel journals, based on its no crash in last decade. The aircrafts operated by the airline have never experience a technical snag in the past and are regularly monitored by trained and experience technicians. Since there is no direct flight from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Rio De Janeiro, the team would be travelling to Frankfurt thru Zagreb by Croatia Airlines, which is another safe airline to travel having no past record of a crash or any major technical failure. Travelling with these trustworthy airlines, the committee and the team can sure about their safety and should have no fear of any plane crash. The second problem for the team and the committee is to manage fans who may become disruptive during games under the influence of alcohol. The team players also might misbehave with the fans and the general public under the influence of alcohol causing embarrassment to the country and the sports. To tackle this problem, the team players and committee members would be under a strict no alcohol policy. This would help the team players to stay calm and maintain their focus on the games. The team would also have a round the clock security that would be hired...
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...Course Date Emirates Airlines In the Middle East, Emirates Airlines is one of the market leaders in the air transport industry. It operates about 2,200 flights in a week across the whole world with its main hub in Dubai, UAE (Shaw 67). The company engages in offering commercial air transport services both in the UAE and internationally. This includes cargo, postal and passenger carriage services. Moreover, the company engages in offering retail and wholesale consumer goods, institutional and in-flight catering and hotel operations. Its headquarters is in Dubai where the coordination of all operations including flight takes place. The company was founded following the collapse of the Gulf Air in 1985 (Doganis, The Airline Business in the Twenty-first Century 56). It serves approximately 134 destinations in about 60 countries with a fleet size of 218. The mission of the airline mission is to deliver the best in-flight experience in the world. The values and visions of the company involve a stable and strong leadership team. The company believes in business ethics as the foundation of its success. It cares for both stakeholders and employees, the environment and the society it servers (Doganis, Flying Off Course: The Economics of International Airlines 75). The company plays a major role in shaping the future of the air transport industry. Given the associated dangers of terrorism in the Middle East, the airline airport surveillance and security is high to help curb terrorism...
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...Business Environment TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 TASK 1 1 1.1 Purpose of different types of the organizations 1 1.2 Key stakeholders of the British Airways 2 1.3 Responsibilities of the organization and strategies to meet them 3 2.1 Economic system and allocation of resources 4 2.2 Impact of fiscal and monetary policies on the British Airways 4 2.3 Impact on regulatory and competition policies on the BA 5 TASK 2 7 3.1 Role of the market structure of the airline industry 7 3.2 Role of market forces in shaping the organization shape 7 3.3 Impact of the business and cultural environment on BA enterprise 8 4.1 Significance of the International trade for the BA organization 8 4.2 Analysis the impact of the global factors on BA 9 4.3 Impact of polices on the European Union on the BA 9 CONCLUSION 9 REFERENCES 11 INTRODUCTION British Airways is a multinational airline of the UK and it is the second largest firm in the world which carries highest number of passengers from one destination to other. It was established by the United Kingdom government in 1972 but after facing losses in 1987, it converted into private sector organization and now provides various services like carriage of freight and auxiliary service in compatible price etc. The research report explored the business environment of British Airways and evaluates the impact of competition, monitory and fiscal policies on the performance of the enterprise. Along with this, the project...
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...travel began in the early 1920’s. United airlines was the first to offer special service to passengers in flight. In 1925, they hired graduate nurses to tend to their passengers comfort and needs, who were called stewardesses. Soon after other airlines added stewardesses to their flights as well. At first they were responsible for refueling airplanes, loading passenger luggage and equipment necessary for the flight as well as cleaning the interior of the airplane. After a period of time, airplanes were growing larger and the number of passengers increased, the stewardesses also began preparing and serving meals and drinks during flights (Barry, 2007). According to Thomas (2009), “By the late 1930’s flight attendants were expected to work long hours making about $1 an hour and on average worked about 100 hours a month, also at that time they were treated poorly by the male passengers groping, pinching and padding their butts” (p.4). Upon World War II the nurses left the airlines and joined the military. The airlines started to hire young women who were not nurses. In that time most flight attendants were women, and the airlines often required that they remain unmarried in order to retain their job. Airlines also instituted age, height, and weight restrictions. They were also expected to provide a glamorous and pleasant image for airlines (Ferguson, 2005). Barry (2007) explained that because training flight attendants was expensive, the airlines began to offer better benefits and...
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...AUSTRALIA Introduction: Qantas Airways is saddled with high operational cost due to high fuel cost and lower levels of global airline traffic. To achieve customer intimacy and operational excellence, and remain competitive, Qantas Airways have to introduce new technology to replace its 30 year old date center which might be operating on legacy systems. Need for New Systems. It is worth noting that the airline industry has much been impacted with “disruptive technology”. Travel reservations, bookings, and seat assignments are all done on line. Sales of traditional tickets are things of the past, giving way to online electronic ticketing and instant kiosk check-ins. These create more convenience to the customer as much as cost reduction to airlines. To compete in 21st century airline industry, Qantas must invest in new technology to remain competitive. Outsourcing If Qantas decide to outsource, there are important factors that must be considered, they are;- -Determine the data security level-outsourcing involves personal, confidential and sensitive information of both customers and employees; the company loses control of such information to the outsourced company. -Data maintenance- The company must decide who have control over modifying the data security, and making upgrades and other changes it believes are necessary to meet the ever-changing data security requirements (and measures needed to combat the modern hacker) in today’s world. -Data Availability –The company should...
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... | |North Central Airlines | |Airline Reservation System | |ITEC 630 | |Fall 2008 | | | |11/15/2008 | North Central Airlines Airline Reservation System Proposal Phase 1 Background (Problem Statement): North Central Airlines is a small but growing airline that specializes in providing amenities that major airlines don’t (like children discounts, for example). The corporate executives feel that the Global Distribution System that they currently use and share with larger airlines doesn’t provide the extra services that North Central needs for their business to thrive. Their intent is to design and construct their own Airline Ticketing System. Originally, the two options for this systems was to use a COTS from...
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...interaction with ICAO.The IATA is an association of airlines * Headquarter in Montreal, Canada. It was formed in April 1945 in Havana, Cuba, as a successor to the International Air Traffic Association, which was founded in The Hague in August 1919, the year when the first international scheduled services started. * At its founding, IATA had 57 Members from 31 nations, mostly in Europe and North America. Today it has over 270 Members from more than 140 nations around the globe. Our mission: Represent, lead and serve the airline industry. 1- Representing the airline industry: We improve understanding of the air transport industry among decision makers and increase awareness of the benefits that aviation brings to national & global economies. Advocating for the interests of airlines across the globe. 2- Leading the airline industry: For nearly 70 years, we have developed global commercial standards upon which the air transport industry is built. Our aim is to assist airlines by simplifying processes and increasing passenger convenience while reducing costs & improving efficiency. 3- Serving the airline industry: We help airlines to operate safely, securely, efficiently & economically under clearly defined rules. Professional support is provided to all industry stakeholders with a wide range of products and expert services. There are two types of members at IATA: 1-Active members: are airlines that operate scheduled flights for passengers, freight...
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...contextual factors, which influenced the introduction of strategic changes at BA It is important to note that change is a significant process with any organisation in order to survive and grow in today’s global economy, without introducing change, organisations such as BA run the risk of becoming stale and unresponsive. Both internal and external contextual factors affected BA leading the organisation to implementing change within the workforce. For a premium, semi-luxurious airline such as BA, low global economic growth otherwise described by the former BA CEO, Willie Walsh as the “harshest environment the airline had ever faced” (Walsh, 2009) resulted in a dampening demand for airline travel. Therefore customers including business travelling customers who were known as BA’s traditional core customer, their loyalty switched towards low-cost airlines such as Ryanair and Flybe, who remained competitors to BA through that time, especially during the volatile conditions of the recession. However, airlines in the same manner as BA are particularly vulnerable not just to global economic conditions, they are also equally affected by external events from 9/11 style terrorism to ebola to the Iceland ash cloud and especially fluctuations in oil prices. A dramatic increase in oil/jet fuel prices is usually associated with a recession; therefore the fluctuations in oil prices had a heavy...
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...what was done at Southwest in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. How did the response at Southwest differ from other airlines? This case shows how a company, Southwest Airlines, was able to go against the normal cost-cutting measures of a layoff and not downsize employees even during an extremely difficult period in the Fall of 2001. Southwest Airlines has a strong focus on its employees and a no-layoff policy which is “one of the core values that underlie its human resource strategy” (p. 218-9). Downsizing of any kind would have undermined this strategy, so it was clearly not an option for the company. This was not the case with the other airlines. The case outlines “draconian cuts in both schedules and service” made by Southwest’s competitors even before the 9/11 attacks. After the attacks, over 100,000 employees were downsized by the other airlines (p. 217). Southwest’s alternative to layoffs was to cut costs through other ways. The company was able to rely heavily on its employees who were very productive and flexible (p. 218). High productivity equates to a cost savings for the company because it keeps the labor costs low. Some of this cost savings was passed on to consumers who were also looking to reduce their own costs during the economic crisis. Because of the commitment to its no layoff policy, the company was also able to leverage that job security for its employees into creative thinking (p. 218). The employees were able to parlay that innovativeness into ways...
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...Magic Carpet Airlines Diane Lutzow MGT 445 July 28th, 2010 Sabrina Thomas Magic Carpet Airlines Everyone would like to work for a company that’s fair, pays competitively and looks out for their employees. Magic Carpet Airlines is not a company who are practicing those three aspects. They are trying to pay their flight attendants minimal, but still requiring long hours. The flight attendants and the League of Flight Attendants are fighting back and saying they work hard and are worth more. “Magic Carpet Air (MCA) began operations in 1961, serving 2 cities, and grew to serve 18 cities by 1987. River City Airlines (RCA) began in 1969 with service to 4 cities and grew to serve 12 cities by 1987. In January 1987, Magic Carpet Air purchased River City Airlines and merged the two operations. The joining of these two regional airlines created a small “national” airline (defined as a carrier with sales between $100 million and $1 billion) with sales of $140,265,000 in 1987. Even so, the firm competed primarily in only one region of the country, and managers constantly compared it to other large regional airlines” (Lewicki, Saunders, & Barry, 2006) . In 1988 Magic Carpet Airlines decided to enter an agreement and merge with RCA. Neither companies prior to 1989 were unionized this quickly changed and with 82 percent of the votes, LFA became their union. Magic Carpet Air and RCA flight attendants were not part of a union before or after the merger. Therefore...
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...Aviation Industry Information The airline industry provides transportation services for passengers as well as cargo through scheduled air routes. The aviation industry derives its revenues from regular ticket fees and freight charges. Other major components of the aviation sector include: • Air traffic control • Helicopter and private charter services • Airport management • Express delivery service History of the Airline Industry The pioneers of the airline industry, the Wright Brothers invented the first airplane in 1903. The first modern airliner, Boeing 247, was launched in 1933. It traveled at 155 miles per hour and had a capacity of ten passengers. Boeing 747 was launched by Pan Am in 1969. This highly sophisticated aircraft had four engines and a seating capacity of 450. The airline industry initially fell under the category of a public utility service, with government agencies establishing the air routes and prices. However, with the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, the industry became market driven. Demand and Supply Drivers of the Airline Industry The demand drivers of the airline industry include: o Ticket prices o Passenger income levels o Access to and suitability of other modes of transportation o Frequency of services • Safety • Random factors such as terror threat The supply...
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...The current economic climate has had a direct impact on the Irish airline industry. People have less disposable income and as a result Dublin airport has witnessed a decline in passenger numbers since 2008. Figures released by the DAA show a significant decline in passengers from 23.5 million in 2008 to 20.5 million in 2009; a decrease of 13% and it s expected that numbers will fall even further in 2010 to 19 million passengers. Ireland is one of the few European countries to impose a 10 travel tax on tourist travelling to Ireland. This along with the 40% increase in airport charges (which is being used to pay for Terminal 2) is considered to be one of the main reasons in the decline of seat capacity which dropped by 140,000 in April 2010 alone and the fall in Irish air traffic by 13% so far this year. Growth has returned to countries which have ditched this travel tax and reduced its airport charges. According to Canadian energy economist Jeff Rubin the maximum an airline company can pay for a barrel is $80 dollars, any higher and the company cannot make a profit, $80 dollars is the breakeven point. Oil prices have been steadily rising since January 2009 and economists have predicted that this year the price of oil will rise to $80 per barrel which could prove detrimental to the profitability of the airline industry. In April 2010 the eruption of an Icelandic volcano caused Irish air traffic to come to a halt. The closure of Irish airspace caused a sharp decline in trips to...
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...Civil Aviation Policy – Consultation with stake holders Civil Aviation sector in India has soared to great heights in the last few years. However, the aviation industry’s growth will need proper policy orientation to ensure systematic, sustainable and orderly development. Hence, it is imperative that a clearly defined, long term civil aviation policy is formulated. Such policy while addressing issues related to safety, security, infrastructure development, revenue models, private sector participation etc. must also provide for a safe and comfortable yet affordable air travel to passengers. The Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India, is in the process of formulating a Civil Aviation Policy. The civil aviation sector has many complex areas, which need to be addressed in formulation of the policy; some of them are indicated below. Organizations and individuals are requested to give their inputs, views and suggestions on aspects given below (or any other related issues), for facilitating the Ministry of Civil Aviation in drafting the proposed Civil Aviation Policy. These may be sent to the DT section, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan, New Delhi, India; or e-mailed to Dtsec.moca@nic.in Views of some stake-holders already received are placed below for reference and cross fertilization of ideas. While giving your views, please mention specifically if you have any objection in keeping your views in public domain. Your views may be sent before 20th February,...
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