American Airlines

my financial performance discussion of Spirit Airlines, I have reviewed and analyzed several standard airline performance measures from four years at the beginning, and four years after completing the transition to an ultra-low cost carrier (ULCC) strategy. Since the early 90’s, Spirit gradually expanded primarily along the eastern United States and into Latin America. In the years following September 11, 2001, Spirit struggled like many other airlines and was on the verge of bankruptcy, which…

Pre-Delta Airline Years The name Delta is traced back to Telulah, LA in 1909 as an agricultural lab, the Delta Lab. Scientists were working on a control for boll weevil insects that were attacking cotton crops across the Mississippi Delta. The entomologist Dr. B.R. Coad was hired by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to head the Delta Lab and was assisted by C.E. Woolman. Woolman was a young college graduate of the University of Illinois who had been hired by the USDA through the…

turbine starter valve-air filters installed on all MD-80 series aircraft. American Airlines was recommended to evaluate their CASS program to determine why it failed to identify deficiencies in its maintenance program associated with the MD-80 engine no-start failure and to also discover the lack of compliance with company procedures. Then, make necessary…

began regular service to Lexington. During this same time, jet-powered aircraft use became prevalent prompting city officials to begin lobbying airline companies to begin service at Blue Grass Field. A federal grant to extend the runway yet again to handle jet traffic occurred in 1965 and jet landings and take-offs were successfully tested; however, airline companies declined to bring jet service to Lexington because of concern over the lack of advanced safety and emergency equipment. Jet…

The Civil Aeronautics Board was established in 1938 by none other than the Civil Aeronautics Act. This act gave power to the Civil Aeronautics Board, or CAB, to regulate the airline industry. This regulation has been the most impactful decision possibly ever in the industry. Since then, the airline industry has been regulated, deregulated, and is facing the possibility of reregulation. Each change has benefits and disadvantages that affect all of those involved with the aviation industry. With…

Terminal. With the Federal Aviation Administration forecasting that international traffic will increase by more than 30 percent over the next four years to 13 million in 2015, and then the new terminal will support the ever-changing needs of our airline partners and our customers for years to come. (Reed, 2015) Boasting in 2013 94.4 million passengers and 911,074 take-offs and landings. (FAA, 2015) So despite a slight drop in passengers and operations in year over year for passengers and…

time that needs to be respected. Additionally, flight attendants need sufficient time to get all of their checks done and attend the pre-flight briefing. The flight attendant is the face of the airline and as such, should be properly groomed, at all times, adhering to the rules for grooming, of the airline. Uniforms should not be worn while doing any off duty activities, in the streets or during stopovers. The flight attendant has primary duties and secondary duties, in effect, prioritization…

employees, is non-unionized and is not part of any airline alliance. It operates one Airbus A330-300. The airline 's headquarters is located near to Toronto Billy Bishop national Airport, which also serves as its hub. AirPartyCanada has earned in his first six month of activity $1 billion (CAD) (2014) and reported six-month earnings per share of C$0.70 per share. OUR STORY Our company can’t and don’t strive to compete with larger Canadian or American carriers because it’a a private company…

The crash of the United Airlines Flight 232 is a devastating event and is considered an engineering disaster for two main reasons. The failure of a fan disk in the engine which caused the plane to crash, and the high number of human fatalities due to the crash of the airplane on the runway. The United Airlines Flight 232 took off from Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, and was scheduled to land in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a layover in Chicago, Illinois. It was a passenger…

Air travel is nowhere near comfortable. A message from Dr. Florence Thomson written in response to an article published in The British Medical Journal in 1953 was, “most passengers are quite unable to rest in comfort in the position allowed, and sleep is quite impossible except in very short snatches” (996). In 2016, nothing changed for the better in this regard; CNN recently published an article about the disruptive passengers in flights and incidents of air rage in airplanes (McKirdy). What…