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The results show that 95% of VFR travellers from South Africa and 80% of VFR travellers to South Africa are travelling for visiting friends and relatives’ purposes. This is the case because these VFR travellers are mainly influenced by friends and relatives (Figure 1). Visiting Friends and Relatives travellers to and from South Africa might not mention visiting friends and relatives travel as main purpose of travel but will end up visiting their friends and relatives. Backer and Morrison…

Mitigating Risks for Molon Labe Designs’ Side-Slip Seat Product launches fail for many reasons, but three of the main causes are: 1) Spending too much money on the development and manufacture of the product, and not enough on marketing the launch; 2) Falling in love with one’s own product and not adapting it to market priorities or educating the consumer; and 3) Not thinking through distribution (Harvard Business Review, 2011). Molon Labe has spent considerable time and resources on the…

Young and I were responsible for the Asian market. In terms of the Kangaroo route, we connected the flights from Singapore to Europe, Australia, and other Asian regions. First and for most, we had set our home base in Singapore; simply because Singapore airport is the second busiest international passenger airport. In addition, the geographic location is in the middle of Indian ocean and South China sea. In other word, it is closer to Australia. Hence, the routes we in charged included Singapore…

UXDI-5 Project 1: My ‘Avid Traveler’ App A smart app that caters to your preferences and gives freedom and flexibility in planning trips. Oftentimes we find it a hassle to book tickets, arrange itineraries and search for a good experience for our next travel destination. Avid Traveler enables the user to set preferred activities when planning for a trip and allows freedom to choose preferred flights with fuss-free booking. Now how does an app come to fruition? Initially, being naive, I…

What makes a city beautiful? Every city is beautiful in their own unique way. Seattle is just like any other city to visit, but what makes it unique is not just that is called the Jet City due to the influence of Boeing. Downtown Seattle is interesting to visit through the year there is always something different each time. Downtown Seattle is full of sight, sound and smells to enjoy in different parts of the year. Walking through downtown from far away the space needle is visible with the…

deregulated markets, entrepreneurs, population growth and economic wealth, availability and capacity of secondary airports and the growth of internet use as a distribution channel accelerated the spread of LCCs (Francis, Humphreys, Ison, Aicken, 2006). Southwest, Ryanair, easyJet, Westjet, GOL and Air Asia are examples of this model.  Hybrid carriers Hybrid airline business model combines best features of low-cost model (cost saving methodology) and full service model (service, flexibility and…

Aviation developed very fast in last century. From aircrafts to drones. There are many interesting aircraft types and different usage of air vehicles. Especially some war technologies develop very well like war aircrafts.In todays conditions of war and military necessitate very devoloped aircrafts like F22 and B2. Under this circumstances wars are very hard. With today technologies aircrafts makes unbelievable things. Especially F22 Raptor and B2 aircrafts are the most devoloped war aircrafts…

The Invention of Airplane Wilbur and Orville Wright were the first American inventors to invent the airplane. On Dec. 17, 1903, the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built, and flew the first fully practical airplane. The Wright brothers showed the world that man could fly (“Wright Brothers”). Their invention of the airplane astounded everyone; poor people, rich people, and especially…

3:1 TurboProp Engines: A turboprop is a variation of a Jet Engine which has been optimised to drive a propeller instead of a Fan blade. Aircraft’s that are fitted with a TurboProp engine are very efficient at lower airspeeds, Burn less fuel per Nautical Mile an requirer shorter distances for take off and landings. Common among many small charter airlines and freight companies is the use of turboprop engines rather than turbine or turbofan engines mainly due to the reduced costs associated with…

the actual night rate and not the advertised night rate. If they will really like the accommodation, they won’t mind paying the actual night rate which is slightly more than the advertised rate. This trick is being used by 10% of the Hosts Request Methodologies Airbnb stands unique among its competitors and there are various features that analyses customer data through Data Analytics Technologies. There are different room request methodologies in Airbnb and these uniquely collect data on…