Low-cost carrier

In the years following the deregulation, two main network structures became dominant, hub-and-spoke among full service airlines, and point-to-point, among low cost carriers (LCCs). Network designing implies that an airline has to make decisions about markets that it will serve, how to serve those markets, what the consequences of rerouting the flows through the hub are, etc. From passengers’ point of view, it would…

British Airways, the company’s brand recognition (reputation and image), political forces/social crisis and the economic growth. All these key-factors lead us to the third task of this report, where it is analysed how BA faces their competition, like low-cost companies, and where are stated the main reasons why this airline company has a short competitors’ list. 1. British Airways is a British airline which was resulted of a merge, made in 1974, between British Overseas Airways Corporation…

INTRODUCTION AirAsia airline is one of the low-cost carrier in the part of ASEAN region. (Yashodha, 2012) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is the main headquartered for AirAsia airline. In addition, AirAsia provides the flight for the customer to 108 routes of the destination, 400 flights from the hubs that is Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. (Essays.pw, 2016) The name of the CEO of AirAsia airline is Tony Fernandes that work for the company since 2001. (TIME, 2014). In the following essay will…

Pre-merger, American Airlines has over $800 million in labor costs, some of the highest in the industry, they were able to reduce labor and pension expenses while under bankruptcy protection (Bolte, 2014). Post merger labor and pension costs are still a significant expense. American Airlines will need to balance its desire to control these expenses with its desire to attract and retain good employees…

A low cost model like the model that Ryanair uses is not sustainable for Aer Lingus so the strategy that they have introduced to their company is the ‘value carrier’ strategy, which is a hybrid of the ‘low cost’ model and the ‘full service’ model. The main elements of the ‘value carrier’ model is reducing long-haul capacity and reducing service in short-haul routes as free meals are only offered…

Availability of own terminal. 6. Receipt of royalties for Transsiberian flights, allow Aeroflot to receive additional income. 7. Long-term profitability, which favorably distinguishes "Russian national champion" from a number of major European companies; 8. Cost control, which more effective than others aviation groups, for example, Air France-KLM or IAG (British Airways and Iberia) 9. One…

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…

value to the customers and gain competitive advantage over the firm’s competitors within an industry. Southwest Airlines employs a cost leadership business strategy which focuses on competing for a wide range of customers based on price of the goods or service being offered. Southwest Airlines is truly loyal to this strategy and that can be seen in the company’s low cost strategy initiative. Southwest Airlines has been able to maintain its pricing strategy by controlling several internal…

had become privet. The substantial impact on airline industry has route structures, technology, airport capacity and costs of the physical aircraft but there are other more important issues that we can’t control like: - weather which is changeable and unpredictable because of it many flights can be canceled and the airports shutdown then the airline’s money will be lost; - fuel cost according to the Air…

Low Cost Carriers First of all, Low Cost Carriers (LCCs) is now one of the important businesses in the airline industry. LCCs’ most strength of service is the price of tickets. They offer lower fare operating short-haul and point-to-point flights. Among various airlines, Southwest Airlines is one of the successful LCCs, and it takes unique approaches to successfully differentiate itself from the competitors. It focuses on people, the process and physical evidence. According to “Southwest…