AirTran Airways

Southwestern Airline is a leading US airline and the world’s largest low cost carrier, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Southwestern Airline has created a niche that has allowed for success, even when other Airlines were at death’s door. The airline was established in 1967 and adopted its current name in 1971. The airline has 44,831 employees as of December 2013 and operates more than 3,400 flights per day. As of June 5, 2011, it carries the most domestic passengers of any U.S. airline. As of…

Parnell (2014) defines organizational culture as the beliefs, behaviors, and values shared by members of a firm, which is one component used to implement strategic change (p. 296). Organizational culture describes the shared beliefs, values, and practices among the employees at an organization (p. 295). According to Quick (1992), Southwest Airlines’ corporate values are humor, selflessness, and luv (p. 47). Southwest Airlines’ website (n.d.) states that safety, warrior spirit, dependability,…

Racial profiling and discrimination has become a huge issue for minorities in today’s society. Minorities are too often being treated differently and being deprived of their equality they thought they had. There is the belief that all are equal before the law, but what if those behind the law are are actually discriminating against the population of minorities who need that equality most? There are different situations in which minorities are faced with where discrimination is playing a huge…

ValuJet Flight 592 Crash The ValuJet Flight 592 plane was a regularly scheduled flight from the Miami International Airport to Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In the cockpit was pilots Kubeck Candalyn and Richard Hazen who had over 20,700 flight hours total between the too combined. On May 11, 1996, the McDonell-Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Everglades after shortly taking off from the airport. It crashed as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment…