Northwest Airlines

Strategically relevant INSIGHTS / Strategic Challenge at stake Airbus and Bombardier has a partnership with C series which was announced in October 2017. Competition is strengthening its market positioning, thereby creating new values for customers, suppliers and employees. With increase in global airport expansion projects, the need for smaller commercial aircrafts is greater than before. Hence, Boeing and Airbus are targeting the production of smaller commercial airplanes to meet the…

Regularly ranked among the world's best airlines, the focus of Singapore Airlines (SIA) can be summed up in one word – customer. The world of aviation is notoriously competitive, and with pressure growing from upstart budget carriers as well as fast-growing full-service airlines such as Qatar Airways and Emirates, premium carriers like SIA are seeing margins squeezed. Because of the inherent characteristics of the service industry, for firms like Singapore Airlines, customer-facing staff are…

“For over 75 years Alaska Airlines, and the people who make us who we are, have been guided by integrity, caring, ingenuity, professionalism, and a unique spirit. A spirit that was has grown out of our geographical roots,” declares Alaska Airlines on its website. Alaska Airlines started to serve their people back in the 1932 when it was only a three-passenger aircraft. With time, it grew and now it is the product of the history. These milestone, good deeds, and community involvement have grown…

Seat Mile for the company (Delta's Rules of the Road). As being the first, US-based airline, Delta looks to ensure that innovation is encouraged to continue to be the best airline worldwide. Delta Airlines mission statement follows along with their values that lead their passion to work with the employee’s, customers and community leaders to help promote change and build a better tomorrow (Alchin, 2018). Delta Airlines values and mission statement assist them in being a carrier that has a…

Major airline companies such as United Airlines are constantly looking for new ways in which they can reach organizational goals and still maintain cost reduction. The notion of outsourcing allows companies to more effectively achieve these goals by shifting some of the day to day activities to a third party vendor. There are various reasons why an airline might result to outsourcing but regardless of the reason this can cost workers their lively hood as well as possibly compromise the safety of…

American Airlines is the world’s largest airline company, if measured by the fleet size, revenue, destinations served, and passengers flown. American Airlines is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Together with its regional partners, American Airlines operates an extensive international and domestic network with nearly 6,700 flights per day to nearly 350 destinations in more than 50 countries. The history of American Airlines dates back in 1926 when…

(Uysal, 2016). The airlines main goal is to please its shareholders, all human resource system are design with the aim of satisfying shareholders. According to Uysal (2016) most firms in the United States including air lines are deregulated, they have autonomous human resource management style and they hold a liberal market view. Human resource management in the American airline industry aims at maximizing employee performance and also aims at controlling employee behavior…

Introduction of Avianca Airlines Avianca is the Colombian national airline carrier, founded on December 5th, 1919, and is the second oldest airline in the world after KLM airlines. (Timothy, 2013) Avianca is a historical airline created by a group of people from Colombia and Germany and was registered under the name of SCADTA meaning Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transporte Aereo in the city of Barranquilla. (Avianca, 2017b) Transportes Aereos Centroamericanos (TACA) was founded in 1931 in…

SkyWest Inc. Performance and Profitability Report SkyWest has been around since 1972 and today has grown to encompass one out of every 12 passengers in the US traveled on a SkyWest Inc. aircraft (SkyWest Incorporated, 2016). back in 1972 the airline was bought from Dixie airways and SkyWest was created. SkyWest has made a profit for most of its lifetime except for the first beginning few years. Those beginning few Years for a long change and upgrade switch decrease profits. In 1988 the tides…

more revenue from ancillary services” (para 5). With Spirit Airlines, Inc. putting consumers in control of how they spend their money and allowing them to create the airline package that is most favorable to them is essential. If a couple is traveling for the away for a weekend getaway, and only needs one piece of baggage checked in, with major airlines, they would be paying for it already in the tickets that were purchased. Spirit Airlines, Inc. allows the consumers tickets to be tailored to…