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Introduction The Boeing Company, the world's largest manufacturer of commercial airplanes and military aircrafts, has achieved record revenues of $86.6 billion in 2013 (annual_report). Besides, it has generated operating cash flow of $8.2 billion and increased cash and marketable securities to $15.3 billion to maintain healthy liquidity. (annual_report) Highly diversified products are one of the prominent features of the Boeing Company. Apart from the sale of 648 commercial airplanes in 2013,…

A memorable journey On December 18, 1980, Brian Czech got into a station wagon with his parents and siblings. At that time, traveling by plane was expensive and not practical for a big family who wanted to have a multi-city holiday on the west coast of the United States. The station wagon was a long car which had three seats in the row, three in the middle row and it had a seventh seat at the back of the car. They had enough stuff packed for the seven of them for a long, 16-days journey to…

Liquidity Ratio The current ratio is a liquidity ratio, which analyzes WestJet 's working capital, and measures their capability to settle its short- term obligations. This ratio also assists investors and creditors in understanding the liquidity of the airline and how easily they can pay off its current liabilities. According to WestJet 's annual reports ,"We maintain a strong liquidity position and sufficient financial resources to meet our obligations as they fall due."(WestJet, 2015). With…

Every year you promise yourself, "I will travel more this year," but feel you must save up mega bucks first. Maybe before you tackle the "dream vacation" you should start small in an effort to sharpen your travel shopping skills. Today we will discuss how skipping that daily latte and brown bagging most of your meals, can easily turn into a weekend trip to Chicago or New Orleans - yes, it is possible check out the example below. Instead of buying...Save...For... 16 large lattes @ $4 =$64 or A…

Introduction Air Europe Xpress is in the period of great changes and those strategic adjustments that have been made in the last month at a Shareholder’s meeting undoubtedly will be reflected
on the HR strategy of the company. Moreover there are several challenges, beyond the new strategic plan of the company, which HR department is currently faced. They all together are as follows: Difficulties with recruitment due to high competition among grown number of airline travel companies which leads…

Turkish Airlines is a carrier airline of Turkey that is situated at the Atatürk Airport in Yeşilköy, Bakırköy, and Istanbul. The airline flies over 280 airports in 110 countries in Asia, Europe, South America, North America, Africa, etc. It is the world's 4th largest carrier when measured by the number of destinations served. It also has codeshare agreements with about 40 other airlines. They operate their carrier at the Istanbul Atatürk Airport (IST), Esenboğa International Airport (ESB) and…

Countries With The Highest Number Of Fatal Plane Crashes Air travel is considered one of the safest traveling means in the world as, considering the traffic, fewer accidents occur as compared to road travel. However, aviation accidents do occur from time to time and is considered as the most fatal. Statistically, those who survive plane crushes are few. Plane crushes are taken seriously and always followed by vigorous investigations to mitigate future crashes. Worldwide, the top ten countries…

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT In March 2010, the Armed Aerial Scout program made a request for information for an advanced helicopter. As a response Sikorsky proposed its Sikorsky S-97 Raider. Four years later, the company finally unveiled the first full production model of the groundbreaking scout and attack helicopter in the company’s facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. The objective set for the new aircraft is to replace the army’s OH-58D Kiowa Warrior. However, specialists think that if the…

Alaska Airlines had numerous problems before their transformation. These issues ranged from internal issues, to end user problems that left some customers unsatisfied with the Airline’s services. In time, these hitches eventually became problematic when in terms of doing businesses, and therefore needed to be ironed out if they were to stay competitive with other airlines. Two key issues were found in Alaska Airline’s performance were highlighted in their survey. First, is the operational…

Chapter 4: Dynamics of aircraft degradation The dynamics of the number of failures is accumulated to help predications of mechanical failures especially basing on last repairs or periodic inspections. Factors are related to procedures and the time as well as extent of maintenance being the variable under control as the methodology is applied. The aircraft system is designed with an intended or expected life period, where period refers to time units (hours) of being used. Failed state, is reached…