United Airlines

day, more than 700 Southwest Airline Boeing 737s fly 4,000 flights across a network of 98 destinations in the United States and seven additional countries. Southwest Airlines Customer Representatives book, on average, 54,557 reservations daily. The weekly reservations add up to be over 382,948 and 1. 7 million reservations are made monthly. This makes Southwest Airlines one of the most popular choices in flights, especially since Southwest is the only major U.S. airline to offer Bags Fly Free to…

multitude of factors in the early 2000s brought about a decline in the financial performance of many airlines throughout the industry. Some of these factors include aspects such as the events of September 11th, stock market struggles, and the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, among others (Swelbar, 2009). An additional cause of such a decline was the rise of low-cost carriers, such as Spirit Airlines (Swelbar, 2009). Although their business model did not make them exempt from the…

Company Airlines: Transition into a New Low-fare Carrier Part A Recently, the low-cost market has become the fastest growing airline sector and one of the most popular ways of travelling and organizing our private and business needs. Fair Skies Airlines are going to become a low-cost company offering low tariffs in exchange for eliminating many services which used to be included into the fare. Before the amendments take place, the detailed evaluation of the closest competitors should be done.…

Abstract Most of the major airlines have been expanding their service network via airline strategic alliances with other small airlines to form a global service network. Since last two decades, due to this mergers airline industry is undergoing unprecedented changes. This paper explores the airlines’ mergers and how they impact the aviation industry. The employees in the aviation industry, customer’s satisfaction, their views on mergers, and labor protective provision are some of the topics that…

Canada. But due to a flight delay in Denver, it caused him to miss his connecting flight from Toronto to Thunder Bay. Once the teen arrived in Toronto at 8pm, Air Canada rebooked him for another flight that would be leaving the next day at 6pm. The airline did not offer him any compensation for the mishap. Throughout the next 22 hour wait, Derrin was ‘trapped’ in the airport. He was a minor (meaning under age of responsibility; 18yrs) and was not allowed to leave the building or get an hotel…

With Me” was the best-selling album in the United States, if not, the world! But weirdly enough, the irony was that most people at the time were not able to take up the offer to “glide, starry-eyed” on an aircraft with anybody. A statistic of 80 percent of the country had never once been air bound. Hard to imagine, isn’t it? There was one easy reason for this – an airline ticket was just too expensive thanks to the law. One of the major achievements in airline ticket pricing to the consumers in…

The airline industry provided the fastest transportation service, thereby significantly attributing to the economic globalization. While, the operating model, profitability, and prosperity of the airline industry could be dampened by various environmental factors, such as economy, politics, regulation, technology, suppliers, competition, financial stability and stakeholder relationship. Thus, in response to changes in environment factors, the airline industry must promptly propose new strategies…

The 9/11 crisis threw the multi-billion dollar airline industry into a tumultuous panic. As fear spread among the public, airline passenger traffic dropped, revenues faltered, and consumer experience floundered. The airline industry was going through a violent contraction, one that cost $55 billion dollars, according to The New York Times. In addition, the crisis altered the airline industry’s environment. For instance, airline industry faced new uncertainty and pressure from legislation and…

Profile of Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines, or SIA, is the national airliner of Singapore which established on the year of 1972. With its home being located at Changi International Airport, according to their website, it currently has direct flight services to more than 60 destinations, 30 different countries worldwide. Singapore Airlines has Scoot, Tigerair and SilkAir as their subsidiaries. Current C.E.O. of Singapore Airlines is Mr. Goh Choon Phong, this Airline aims to become…

accidents were fatal and routine. According to Van der Linden (2015), the Air Mail Act of 1925 ignited the commercial airline industry, giving birth to such commercial passenger service companies as Pan American Airways, Ford Air Transport Service, and Western Air Express. In the 1930s, Eastern, United, American, and Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) became the main domestic airlines dominating commercial air travel (Van der Linden, 2015). Then, as air travel started to escalate, airport…