prices, which keep going up. Different competitors have different strategies on how to survive. Some airlines started charging for things that used to be free, for example beverages, checked-in luggage, meals, seat assignments and carry-on bags. Other carriers decided to fly on higher altitudes where oxygen quality is lower which results in less fuel being used (Shifrin). The economy crash in 2008 was not very pleasant for the airline industry. Many people could not afford to fly and chose cheaper, ground
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COMPANY PROFILE Southwest Airlines Co. REFERENCE CODE: DEFBDE99-9B78-4A63-BE9C-7EA7568D476E PUBLICATION DATE: 30 Nov 2012 www.marketline.com COPYRIGHT MARKETLINE. THIS CONTENT IS A LICENSED PRODUCT AND IS NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED OR DISTRIBUTED. Southwest Airlines Co. TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Company Overview..............................................................................................3 Key Facts.............................................................
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Unclassified Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development DAF/COMP(2014)14 06-Jun-2014 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ English - Or. English DIRECTORATE FOR FINANCIAL AND ENTERPRISE AFFAIRS COMPETITION COMMITTEE DAF/COMP(2014)14 Unclassified AIRLINE COMPETITION -- Background Paper by the Secretariat -18-19 June 2014 This document was prepared by the OECD
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company grew to become the fourth largest U.S. airline (in terms of domestic customers carried). In 2002, it boasted a fleet of 366 Boeing 737 jets. Southwest was the United States’ only major short-haul, low-fare, high-frequency, point-to-point carrier. (Refer to Exhibit 1 for five-year financial highlights.) Southwest had the lowest operating-cost structure in the domestic airline industry and consistently offered the lowest and simplest fares. Southwest also had one of the best overall customer
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Huff Daland Dusters was changed to Delta Air Service and began flying passengers from Dallas to Jackson, Mississippi. After merging with Chicago and Southern Airlines (C&S) in 1953, C&S Air Lines became a part of Delta and launched its first continental flight service. Delta also bought Northeast Airlines in 1972 and initially started
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UNITED CITY MERCHANTS (INVESTMENTS) LTD. and GLASS FIBRES AND EQUIPMENTS LTD. v ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (INCORPORATED IN CANADA) AND VITROREFUERZOS S.A. (FIRST THIRD PARTY) AND BANCO CONTINENTAL S.A. (SECOND THIRD PARTY) [On appeal from UNITED CITY MERCHANTS (INVESTMENTS) LTD. v. ROYAL BANK OF CANADA] HOUSE OF LORDS [1983] AC 168, [1982] 2 All ER 720, [1982] 2 WLR 1039, [1982] 2 Lloyd's Rep 1 20 May 1982 LORD DIPLOCK. My Lords, this appeal, which is the culmination of protracted litigation, raises two
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Fixed costs do not vary with the scale of operations, and will be incurred even if the flight is cancelled. Examples of fixed cost are the rental cost of leased planes, which is time- but not operations-sensitive, and general administrative costs such as salaries. Constant costs, which cease if the flight is cancelled but are invariant to the volume of traffic carried, are also high. Examples of constant costs are the subsistence allowance paid to the cabin crew, and landing fees, which do not depend
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phones and accessories. The companies serve customers throughout the United States. T-Mobile USA, Inc. is a global marketing-information-services firm, ranked the company highest among major wireless carriers for retail-store satisfaction four years consecutively and highest for wireless customer care for the past two years consecutively. Deutsche Telekom Case Study (2012) discusses that T-Mobile USA, Inc. which operates as the U.S. operating entity of T-Mobile International AG, the mobile-communications
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better than the competition and what item(s) it will bring to the market in order to be assorted from the competition. JetBlue Airways founding father, David Neeleman wanted to start an airline “that would combine the low fares of a discount airline carrier with the comforts of a small cozy den in people’s homes” (Rovenpor & Michel, 2009). His thinking brought on the evolution that JetBlue Airways would be identified as a customer service first company which would focus on providing customers a
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Chapter 2: How Airline Markets Work...Or Do They? Regulatory Reform in the Airline Industry Severin Borenstein and Nancy L. Rose October 2008 Severin Borenstein is E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley (www.haas.berkeley.edu), Director of the University of California Energy Institute (www.ucei.org), and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (www.nber.org). Address: Haas School of Business
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