British Airways PLC, a British air-transport company, is branded as one of the largest airline in the world carrying approximately 36 million passengers a year. Its headquarters are established near Heathrow Airport in London. In 1935, small UK air transport companies arose together to form British Airways. Later, the British Government joined British Airways with its competing airline firm, Imperial Airways to form British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). British European Airways (BEA), a…
1.0 Before Singapore International Airlines (SIA) was implemented. It started off with the name Malayan Airways Limited (MAL), (MAL) started with 3 scheduled flights every week to Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. After 5 years, more planes were bought to enable more flights to head out to many other different countries. (Singapore Airlines, 2014). In 1965 is when Singapore gained its independence from Malaysia, both countries decided to joint alliance and control the airline in 1966, renaming it…
Introduction 1. Business Analysis of Aegean Airlines In 1999 founded the Aegean Airlines becomes the first Greek private company licensed aviation. Primary destinations were Athens, Thessaloniki and Heraklion. Then flights to Rhodes, Chania, Alexandroupoli, Kavala and Kerkyra. In March 2001 the company opens the Business Class service and joins forces with the Cronus Airlines and now travels to 11 destinations in Greece and abroad 7. In 2009 a very good year for Aegean after doing a proposal…
Fly Dubai Dubai Aviation Corporation, under the brand name Fly Dubai is a low-airline fully owned by the Dubai Government with its main hub and flight operation center at Dubai International Airport Terminal 2. Fly Dubai was originally established in July 2008 by the government of Dubai (Flydubai.com (1), 2014). Emirates supported Fly Dubai during the establishment phase, though it is not part of the Emirates Group (Hofmann, 2014). At the Farnborough Air Show on July 14, 2008, Fly Dubai placed…
Cheap Flights to Dortmund Airport Dortmund Airport (DTM) is a small international airport located just 10km from Dortmund, Germany. Every year, more than 2 million travellers pass through this airport on their way to destinations throughout Europe. DTM specialises in charter flights and low-cost airlines, so it's easy to find a cheap flight! Flight and hotel prices jump in the summer months of June, July, and August, so we suggest flying in the spring or fall for the best deal. The winter…
The “JetBlue Makes Biofuels Deal to Curtail Greenhouse Gases” is about Jet Blues newest strategy to plan for future restrictions. With greenhouse gas pollution changes in the near future Jet Blue has decided to invest in over 330 million gallons of renewable fuel. This is something that makes Jet Blue very unique in the aviation industry because most companies don’t view it as economical despite seeing potential. It has been the low oil prices and the lack of competition in the renewable…
Introduction In Europe, Lufthansa and Ryanair are one of the key players in the aviation industry accounting for a total of almost 260 million passengers for 2017. However, the big question is why passengers chose either Lufthansa or Ryanair and what product offerings each airline serves. This research paper will focus on the five key product features discussed by Doganis in order to analyze and conclude how these two airlines differentiate their services. Methodology For the comparison…
1. Should the board of Lufthansa retain Heinz Ruhnau as Chairman? Should Ruhnau justify his actions The board should retain Heinz Ruhnau as Chairman. Ruhnau evaluated the decision based on the information and data he had at that time. The US dollar had been rising for the past 3 years and was at an all time high. He used the existing facts and his strong instinct that the dollar would depreciate to make the partial forward cover choice. He was wise and knowledgeable enough to not rely only on…
Notable points of reference were: “[i]n 1955 united became the first U.S. airline to order jetliners with an order for 30 DC-8s… [In addition, in] 1984 United became the first airline to fly to all 50 U.S. states… [Most recently] 1997, United, Lufthansa, Air Canada, SAS and Thai International founded Star Alliance, the first truly global airline alliance” ("United Airlines," 2016). Presently, United is committed to “providing a level of…
An airline’s business model is a description of the value the company delivers to targeted customers and of how it configures resources internally and externally to achieve this (Holloway (2012). Tretheway (2004) states that from 1945 to end of the 20th century, the world’s airline industry built a product that offers passengers to fly seamlessly to almost any other part of the world by purchasing a single ticket. However, to develop this product, airlines had to invest costly systems and…