Delta Airlines Board of Directors Presentation October 18, 2013 Consultants: General Overview of Delta Airlines Strategy COMPANY’S SANDBOX High rivalry makes industry unattractive Profitability increasing, but still below cost of capital Consolidation trend has reduced rivals helping profits DELTA’S CURRENT STRATEGY Trainer refinery acquisition: using vertical integration to address Delta’s largest expense Metrics of improving flight completions, on-time arrival rate and decreasing mishandled
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THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY: Trends, Challenges, Strategies John Wensveen, Ph.D. Dean, School of Aviation Dowling College New York, USA www.dowling.edu President, Airline Visions www.airlinevisions.com The University of Sydney Faculty of Economics and Business Leadership and Policy Seminar Series Sydney, Australia 23 February 2010 Presentation Objectives • Provide background on the global industry • Present a regional analysis • Discuss current and future evolvement of the industry (trends) • Discuss
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shaky start and the 1997-1998 financial crisis had futher worsen the situation for Air Asia to grow as a low cost carrier. During it dire stage, the company was taken over by Tune Air under the leadership of Dato Tony Fernandes with the help of Conor McCarthy, former Director of Group Operations, Ryanair. Based on Southwest Airlines and Ryanair’s business model, AirAsia offer “No frills” airlines with a catchy tagline of “Now Everybody Can Fly’’. Within 2 years Air Asia posted a net income of 18
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monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, and perfect competition. To begin, these market structures vary according to the number of firms in the structure, product type (similar or different), ease of entry, control over price, and marketing strategy (McConnell, Brue, & Flynn, 2009). For this reason, this discussion will focus on four contemporary firms that exemplify the respective differences in competing structures concluding with a summary of how a conceptualized industry evolves through
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Asian Low Cost Airlines A Strategic Management Analysis Analysis is made from Strategic Alliances between Batch 20 and Batch 21 of SGU MBA Program Written by YopieRissa Pahlawan Arfianto RiaHutari RonyHariadi 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. Rollin King and Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines in 1971 SECTION
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internal issues, such as reporting sales costs, while managerial accounting may focus on methods for determining product costs. While both areas cover business accounting issues, their methods of application generally differ, and separate systems implemented by a management control system may aid in ensuring reports remain accurate and impartial. Managerial accounting is typically responsible for providing management with information on controlling costs and improving the production process. Managerial
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JetBlue is a low-cost domestic airline in the United States following a rather interesting combination of ‘low-cost and differentiation’ as its strategy. From its inception in 1998, the airline grew to become the 11th largest player in the airline industry in a short span of 6 years. It had been the only other airline apart from Southwest airlines, to have been profitable during the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on World Trade Center, and at a time when the entire airline industry was
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but brand loyalty to the Impact namment support degree. )What are three reasons that products fail?(1.A poor match between product features and consumer needs, 2. overestimation of market size, 3.incorrect positioning, a price that is too high or too low, 4.inadequate distribution and poor promotion) There are five product characteristics that can be used to predict and explain the rate of acceptance and diffusion of a new product. Name and briefly describe four of these characteristics. (Complexity
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Discuss the trends in the U.S. airline industry and how these trends might impact a company’s strategy. The trend in US airline industry is to use price discrimination and differential pricing to increase the revenue of the airlines. For this there are computerized programs that help increase the revenues of the airlines. Further, the current trend among airlines is to reduce operating costs. The current trend in airlines industry is to lease aircraft and
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Potential target markets low pay target market/lower income consumers * Air Asia airline introduce the low fare tickets as it suit their class of customers. * Most people especially the lower income consumers can afford to travel often to meet their family especially during holidays. * Holding a reduced price sale will give them incentive to purchase. -Marketing mix * To achieve the marketing objective, the company must have strategy that included the marketing mix
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