Swot Analysis Of Qantas

(“Southwest”) is an American passenger airline company that provides high-frequency, short-haul (generally under ninety-minutes) and scheduled air transportation in the US and near countries, with a fleet of 735 Boeing 737 aircrafts (the largest fleet of Boeing aircraft in the world). In the fiscal year 2016, Southwest achieved historical results, with $20,425 million on revenues, reinforcing its position as the low-cost leader in the US and globally. Apart from the low fare structure model, the company intends to focus on customer service, recording one of the best performances among the main players in the industry. Southwest Airlines’ purpose is “to connect people to what’s important in their lives through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel”, indicating already a customer-centric vision of its service business. The key objective of this paper is to apply the service excellence principles - using the framework proposed by Francis Frei – to Southwest Airlines, in order to discover the sources of success of this company founded in 1971.

Table- I Revenue Details Qantas Group Amount of Revenue ($ Million) Unit 2013-14 2012-13 Qantas Domestic 30 365 Qantas International (- )497 (-)246 Jetstar (-)116 138 Qantas Loyalty 286 260 Qantas Freight 24 36 Source: Qantas Annual Report- 2014, 2013 Despite of having a world-wide reputation and a strong internal management, the performance of QA has on declining phase and during the year 2014, the

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The offers of accommodations via Airbnb are currently available in 192 Countries and in over 34,000 cities worldwide (O 'Toole, 2014). The valuation of Airbnb, the home-rental platform, is worth of $10 billion after it raised $450 million from private investment firm TPG in 2014 (Spector, Macmillan & Rusli, 2014). The type of business of Airbnb can be categorized to social networking service which focuses on the accommodation-rental service. The concept of Airbnb is actually a sharing economy which enables the customers to become the micro-entrepreneurs at the same time. Airbnb aims at not only providing the accommodation opportunities but also the experiences for people to interact with others all around the world and get to know how the local people live in a certain city and have some culture exchange experiences with international guests and hosts.

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Qantas Airways Ltd is Australia's national carrier and a dominant player on the Australian market and specifically ranks ninth in global (Air transportation, 2013). Qantas has an integrated global marketing strategy based on a consistent brand positioning across all markets with excellent brand image in safety record and reputation in the industry as the provider of on-time quality air travelling services to its passengers (Qantas On-Time Performance, 2014). However, the airline has experienced a tough business environment due to interaction between external and internal environment forces that lead to number of strategic issues, therefore the purpose of the report was to critically analyse the key strategy issues through strategic analysis tool like SWOT and PESTLE.

Virgin Australia Virgin Australia Airlines is Australia’s second largest airlines as well as the largest by fleet size to use the Virgin brand. The airline was co-founded by British businessman Richard Branson, the founder of parent Virgin Group and Former Virgin Blue CEO Brett Godfrey. It was established in 2000 with two aircraft operating on a single route. The airline has grown to directly serve 29 cities in Australia from hubs in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, using a fleet of narrow-body Boeing and Embrae, and Airbus and Boeing wide body jets. Virgin Australia was launched as Virgin Blue in August 2000, with two Boeing 737-400 aircraft, one leased from then sister airline Virgin Express.

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