Typically, most businesses were trying to transform/update their outdated systems to a well behaved supply chain system operation. Frequently, current systems does not meet the evolved modern requirements of the business; and American Airlines is in the similar struggling phase which is a barrier for efficiency work flow system. For instance, if the company needs to switch the inbound shipment, Lack of transparency can turn a simple judgment to redirect the component to another port which has a direct impact on the whole supply chain and may result in greater cost and reduced efficiency. As a big fish in the market, they need to have a system which can pop up the cost for every decision option in an instantaneous manner. Transparent System…
AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC. COMPANY ANALYSIS HISTORY American Airlines Group (AAG) Inc. was formed on December 9, 2013, after a merger of AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines and US Airways Group, the parent company of US Airways (Statista.com, 2016). AAG Inc. is a publicly traded company with NASDAQ Ticker, AAL. It operates flight services on both the domestic and long haul routes. In 1983, AAG established a subsidiary known as AMR to provide aviation services to other airlines. The company also launches AMR eagle as a feeder service to create a network.…
American Airlines has a total of 930 mainline fleets and 604 regional fleets as of December 2016. American has the youngest fleet among US global network carriers, and they are expected to receive new deliveries shortly making it even younger. Annual report of American Airlines Group (2015), indicate that the average age of American and US Airways combined fleet is approximately 12 years as represented in figure one. Furthermore, it shows that as of December 31, 2014, out of American’s and US Airways’ combined mainline fleet, 510 aircraft are owned by AAG while 37 are capitol leased and 436 are under operational lease. American received 500 new fleets in the start of 2013 and another 127 in 2015.…
Although the airline is trying to deploy its operations around the world, it’s focusing on domestic flights. American Airlines cannot reform its position on a global scale because of inefficient international competition efforts. The airline depends on limited aircrafts, aircrafts spare parts suppliers and aircraft engines because of the limited number of suppliers. The aircrafts are vulnerable to mechanical problems, inadequate performance and design…
Given that the services an airline provides isn’t a something that can be imported or exported, it makes taking a look at the global strategy within this industry a little more complex than most. In most cases, airlines rely on alliances, mergers or acquisitions as a way of expanding into new markets or for global penetration. Southwest Airlines is one the largest domestic operations in the United States, and recently the company acquired AirTran in a bid to boost its global…
Analysis of “A Tale of Two Airlines” “A Tale of Two Airlines” is a short article written by Christopher Elliot. Elliot, a well-known author and journalist, writes for National Geographic Traveler, MSNBC, Tribune Media Services and the Washington Post and is an experienced traveler. “A Tale of Two Airlines” was published in National Geographic Traveler in the December 2012/ January 2013 issue, which is significant because these months are very busy months in terms of travel. People fly regularly during these months because of the holidays. In this article, Elliot compares and contrasts two major airlines: Southwest Airlines and Spirit Airlines.…
American Airlines Value Pricing In 1992, the American Airlines (AA) was ranked as one of the biggest commercial carriers in the United States. The industry included advancements with inflight technology along with new and approved software application that pioneered the introduction of electronic airline advance booking systems. On the contrary, it may have exceeds technology expectations, the airlines and the industry as whole, was not able to meet or gain profit margins and meet customer’s requirements and expectations for the early 1990’s. A main concern for the transportation industry’s failure to deliver overall needs was caused in large part by the economic decline in the turn of the century.…
American Airlines has been fairly well since there merger. The one to which I am referring to is the one with U.S. Airways in 2013. This merger was worth a total over $17 billion. This merger was first opposed by the United States Government because they said that this merger was so that U.S airways couldn’t offer lower fares and compete with American Airlines. A judge later ruled that the merger would go on because there was no wrong doing by any of the companies and that this would create more competition in the airline industry.…
Millions of dollars have placed to improve Qantas flights, lounges, and other services, in regarding to overcome their competitor Virgin Blue. Qantas have stated that they are launching a new technology of check in. In addition Qantas has notified that they definitely will beat Virgin Blue and the other competitors in this, as a reason of that Qantas network is very well known in the local market. Qantas plans of upgrading does include improvements in the aircrafts, services, food, entertainment on board, infrastructure and lounges. Furthermore, Qantas is planning to duplicate the services that they provide for the international flights into the domestic ones, and more Qantas upgrading plan has include its famous chef cuisine to the domestic routes, as well as including lounges for the domestic routes.…
Catastrophic and heartbreaking are the two words to represent the year of 2001 for many Americans. The 9/11 terrorist attacks caused major emotional, and economic impact around the globe. The American airline industry suffered significant economic and social loss, leaving major airline companies on the verge of bankruptcy. While most airline companies were financially and emotionally suffering, the Southwest airline appeared to be at its most successful and profitable period. Indeed, Southwest’s successful performance during difficult times makes many individuals wonder how the company was able to accomplish what it seemed unachievable by most carriers.…
Eastern Airlines, once one of the largest iconic airlines in the industry, known for its growth due to The Air Mail Act of 1934, also became known for it ’s power struggles and a an ongoing to war with themselves, precisely between management and workers. Like many carriers in the industry during the 1970’s and 1980’s, Eastern was subjected to difficulties due to deregulation which brought on competition within the market, airfare wars as well as waged wars against competitive rivals and in-house management. During those times mostly all industry carries struggled to keep their business up and running and out of bankruptcy, however many lost the battle and were subjected to hostile takeovers, mergers as well as eventually closing their doors…
Traveling during the holidays can be hectic; and flying is no exception. WestJet airlines decided to do something different in 2013 for their passengers. They wanted to show their guest that they truly value them and go above and beyond customer service and give their customers a “Christmas Miracle”. The video shows passengers talking to Santa on at a kiosk station telling them what they wanted for Christmas.…
Introduction Emirates Airlines is an international airline carter that introduced itself into the airline industry on 25th October 1985, in that same year it also took its first routes out of Dubai with only two aircrafts, a leased Boeing 737 and an Airbus 300 B4. Ever since its startup, the company’s goal has been kept true of favoring quality over quantity, and over the years since taking those baby steps onto the travel industry, Emirates airline as a company has grew into a globally influential travel and tourism corporation (Jammoul, 2013). Today it is known all over the world for its magnificent high standard quality in its day to day business practices. Company background and Growth strategy The airline was formed by the Dubai Government…
Cathay Pacific Airline was founded in 1946, standing with their vision: To become the world’s best airline wouldn’t be achievable without the commitment of our people (Cathaypacific.com, 2015). Cathay Pacific Airline then named as Cathay Pacific Airways, and becomes one of the world’s leading airlines (Worldairlineawards.com, 2015). To maintain this position, the commitment of employees becomes to be the origin issue, where job satisfaction helps to determine the degree of commitment of employees (Luthans, 1998). 3.…
Introduction This paper is an individual report, it includes a background of airline industry and why is quality important in this industry. It also includes a background of a chosen organization which is Etihad and their quality mission. The paper will also clarify the objective of the study and the methods used for collecting data and it also shows key quality process. Last but not least the paper will include a conclusion and a summary of the case study and a recommendation for the workflow to improve it in some areas. Industry background…