Northwest Passage

Question 1 Price discrimination is when a company sells to different consumers, the same or similar product or service at a different price, even though the production costs are the same. Examples of price discrimination may include: • The varying price of airline tickets depending on the season and/or day of the week. • Carnival fetes where the cost of tickets are reduced for persons purchasing early or “Ladies free before 11”. • A lower price being charged to customers who purchase a…

C. Education and skills development: (CSI as a tool to improve education and skills in society) RESEARCH QUESTIONS RESEARCH OUTCOME EDUCATION AND SKILLS (Posed to current and former SAA employees) o Where is SAA’s biggest shortfall in terms of skills? How does that affect the airline? o How does the airline build and source those skills at the moment? Looking 10/20 years into the future, where will SAA come short in terms of skills? o What are the foundation skills that need to be built…

COMPANY PROFILE: Air France formally Société Air France, named as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France, (north of Paris). It is an auxiliary of the Air France-KLM Group and an establishing individual from the SkyTeam worldwide aircraft collusion. Air France, was born on 07th october 1933, resulting from the combination of five French airlines, Air Union, Air Orient, Société Générale de Transport Aérien (SGTA), CIDNA and Aéropostale. It was among the…

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON-DOWNTOWN SCM3320 Fall 2017 Student: Mohamed Kouanda Professor: Jonathan Davis Case Study #2 1.Spanner supply Inc is facing high transportation costs which is hurting their margin. Ernesto who is the transport manager, is using Air transport as much as Ocean which is not efficient. As he mentioned, they use air to expedite hot orders and Ocean for Full Container Loads. There is an unnecessary use of air shipment since SSI does not order in advance is forced to rely…

3.2.5 Buyer Power Boeing and Airbus are competing with each other, which is reflected in the volume of acquisition, acquisition and development here between the two companies. Boeing is buying a number of aircraft to increase its fleet to maintain a strong market position and compete with Airbus. 4. Business Level Strategy Analysis 4.1 Cost Leadership Strategy Boeing naturally reduces costs while maintaining an acceptable level of quality. Such as the development of the company's aircraft at…

Introduction/Background: The impact of the airline industry prevails throughout society. Delta is a major airline that provides jobs for over seventy-five thousand employees and acts as an oligopsony. In order to maintain a competitive edge, Delta must recognize problems and develop effective solutions. Various problems faced by Delta not only include competition with airlines such as JetBlue and Southwest who offer customers low prices but also the potential of the loss of business due to…

“The Industry Handbook: The Airline Industry” could not put the aspect of the airline industry better. There is a lot of competition on airline market. During the recent years there were some events that were no good for this industry therefore it affected the domestic and international services. Before most of the airline industry was owned by government and it still is in many countries but all of major airlines in U.S. had become privet. The substantial impact on airline industry has route…

Yield Management Yield management originated in the air craft industry back in the end of the 1970. People’s Express startet the new trend, and sold their tickets at a lower fare than the competing airline companies. To not lose the price conscious customers to People’s Express, the competing airline companies followed this trend and sold cheaper plane tickets to the price conscious. This is the most important principle in yield management; to sell the right product to the right customer to…

Question 1 The Pacific Northwest LNG Project Environmental Assessment Report shows a lot of flaws in public participation. However, the project can only be expected to achieve ‘reasonable’ levels of public participation. Therefore, the public participation of this project, though inadequate compared to the principles of public participation, was reluctantly acceptable. The principles of public participation require public consultation throughout every stage of the environmental assessment (EA)…

The progressive era was a time in history when America acquired the highest number of immigrants. Millions of settlers from southern and eastern European countries migrated to the United States. Most newcomers entered the country legally by sailing across the Atlantic Ocean on ships or boats. Several migrants arrived to America illegally due to costly expenses or impatience for the immigration process to be completed. They lacked jobs in their countries, so they traveled to the land of…