Guevarra Labor Laws and Unions American Airlines Background American Airlines (AA) history goes back to 1926 when a young aviator named Charles A. Lindberg started air routes to transport mail between St. Louis to Chicago. Lindberg seek the help of other aviators and expanded to other types of types of services such as transport of foods. Later on under the name of American Airways, Lindberg acquired and organized other small airlines. The small airlines were mostly independent carries and they
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able to translate their vision of the company into a reality customers experienced. High quality service, low cost carrier coupled with an efficient organization that operated a low cost structure and invested staff led to one of the most profitable airlines in the US. JetBlue was not just another low fare carrier. One of the main reasons for their success is innovation. Their aircrafts were the first to have live satellite television in every seat, they were the first to install bullet proof
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SKYNET TRAVEL CORPORATION A. Background / History It was established in 1997 as a non-IATA travel agency and became an IATA member on July 21, 2003 with office at GF and 2F TSE & SONS Building, 1743 A.Mabini St. Malate, Manila. Affiliated with International Air Transport Association (IATA), Philippine IATA Agents Travel Association (PIATA), Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA), Philippine Tour Operators Association (PHILTOA) and Department of Tourism (DOT). Since
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RUNNING HEAD: THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY The Airline Industry Name College Table of contents Abstract 3 Introduction: 4 Products and services: 4 Organization: 4 Major players in the airline industry: 5 Economic impact of the airline industry: 8 Employment within the industry: 9 Key trends in the airline industry: 9 - Economic forces: 9 - Technological forces: 11 - Socio-cultural forces and political-legal forces / Government Regulations 13 Logistics and supply chain factors
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the airline. JetBlue started its operations in February 2000, with its first flight from JFK to Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida. The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks caused a very devastating time for the airline industry. Even though this occurred only a year after JetBlue started as a LCC, the company was one of three airlines to produce a profit at the end of 2001. Their performance in this year alone showed many other airlines that JetBlue was a big competitor in the airline industry
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customers have been heavily relying on airline reservation systems to book their tickets, reserve seats, pay for the tickets and also check-in online. For customers, this has been a very convenient method and they are able to easily plan their trips. For the Airline companies, these systems have the whole flight inventory managed. They have all the flight information stored and records are maintained. It also provides a platform for communication between other airline companies for their “code-sharing
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benefits in Airline sector Airline sectors are going through tough times with raising operating costs and decreased occupancy levels. Airlines are investing heavily into business intelligence projects to better understand their customer behavior and airline operations. Also BI systems are being used in reducing costs and increasing efficiency of its operations. Like any other sector airline sector has many functional systems which are independent to each other. They have separate systems for ticketing
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Southwest Airlines? There are several things that I like about Southwest Airlines The first is its large fleet of 527 aircraft, all of which are Boeing 737. In addition, I like the implementation of the strategy of the low cost airlines. The company has been able to understand the cost structure in the Airlines industry, has been able to understand customer needs, and has been able to deliver a remarkable value based product to its customers. I have been impressed by the manner in which the Airlines has
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Crafting and Executing Strategy 1. Discuss the trends in the U.S. airline industry and how these trends might impact a company’s strategy. The trends in the U.S. airline industry, most of the U.S. airlines are operate in discount airline carrier by offering the passengers low fares, operated point to point system, used two types of aircraft and served only snacks, also provided quick turnaround times at airports. The most of the U.S. airline concentrated in the domestic route, however most the domestic
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Southwest Airlines is one of the US based major air carrier based out of Dallas Texas where it commenced operations on June 18, 1971. It was founded by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher got together and decided to start a "different kind of airline”. " They began with one simple notion: If you get your passengers to their destinations when they want to get there, on time, at the lowest possible fares, and make darn sure they have a good time doing it, people will fly your airline" (1). Southwest
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