Travellers that fly regularly has come to learn when to buy the cheapest flight ticket. They have the experience and by flying regularly they have come to learn the little tricks of obtaining the cheapest flights. What if you're not a regular traveller and your budget is limited? As many travellers that have bought flight tickets has found, buying the cheap flights can be quite the gamble. Buying a ticket too soon you might miss out on the specials that airline carriers announce before your…
The Boeing 737 is a short-to medium –range twinjet narrow-body airliner. Basically designed and developed as a shorter, lower-cost twin engine aircraft, modified from Boeings 707 and 727, the 737 has developed into a family of nine passenger aircrafts with occupancy of 85 to 215 passengers. It is the Boeings one and only narrow-body airliner is production, with the -700, -800 and 900 ER variants currently being built and supplying. A reengineered, re engine version, the 737 max is set to fly in…
To the vast majority of people, the worst and most frequently occurring feeling in the world takes place after paying a superfluous amount for a service or product, where money was essentially wasted. However, society has seemingly become apathetic to this once distressing sensation, as it continues to take part in this once dreaded and avoided activity. Everyday, millions of American fliers accept the charges for services that were once complimentary and are an unnecessary part to their flight.…
Southwest Airlines was established in 1971 and has become one of the most successful airlines companies in the industry. Employing more than 46,000 employees that operate over 3,800 flight per day in 97 destinations (Owens). An according to swamedia.com site, Southwest Airlines had been “named to FORTUNE 's 2014 list of World 's Most Admired Companies for the 20th consecutive year.” The success of Southwest Airlines can be attributed to their simple operations, resisting trends within the…
Southwest Airlines Co. (SWA), the model for spending upstarts all over the place, has turned into the biggest local carrier in the United States, by number of travelers conveyed. More than 70 million travelers fly SWA every year to around 60 goals around the nation. Travelers have found that Southwest 's absolute bottom valuing makes right around another type of transportation, more in rivalry with the vehicle than different aircrafts. They will spurn in-flight dinners, things exchanges, and…
Abstract Crew resource management (CRM) is a global practice in aviation industry which decreased the rate of aircraft accidents. The main reason of writing this essay is to explain CRM, its characteristics and its different perspectives, such as good CRM practices and bad CRM practices. For example United Airlines Flight 232 is an example of good CRM which shows good leadership skills, quick actions on time, proper and adequate services, teamwork and best communication. Japan Airlines Flight…
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…
AirAsia has two main customers which is the young, fair conscious customer and business travelers whom are looking for low airfares to travel to their destination, safely and comfortably. AirAsia adopted low cost leadership strategy, hence, all sources such as labour, fuel and aircrafts related to cost reduction must be exploited. AirAsia must reduce operating cost throughout its internal value chain activities. Therefore, we have used value chain analysis as a tool to analyze the effectiveness…
Background of Allegiant Airline Allegiant Air is an American low-cost airline owned by Allegiant Travel Co. that operates scheduled and charter flights. Allegiant Travel Company is a publicly traded company with 2,848 employees. It has over $2.6 billion USD market capitalization. The corporate headquarters allocate at Summerlin, Nevada, a suburban neighbourhood in Las Vegas. Allegiant Air was founded in 1997 and it’s under the name WestJet Express. It charter domestic operations in 1998. After…
The airline industry has grown modernization over the last few years. In the past, there were very few airlines operating across the world. Every airlines in the world need to have right leadership and strong management team to succeed in the air transport industry. To achieve objectives and mission, Top level management need to have the best strategy during setting overall goals and to assess whether the objectives are being met. They also need to acknowledge entire management team and…