Swot Analysis Of Ryanair

Assignment #1 Introduction Air Canada was established in 1937, provides scheduled and charter air transport for passengers and cargo to 182 destinations worldwide. It is the largest airline of Canada by fleet size and passengers carried. Air Canada is governed by an eleven-member Board of Directors committed to meeting high standards of corporate governance in all aspects of the Corporation’s affairs. Our Mission – “Connecting Canada and the World” Our Vision – “Building loyalty through passion and innovation” PESTEL Analysis: Political Factors: "The 'Open Skies Agreement ' between governments of US and Canada in March 2007 came into action as it liberalized the air transportation services.

Introduction Company Summary Bus Éireann is an Irish bus and coach operator providing services throughout Ireland (except Dublin city) and Northern Ireland. The company’s primary heart is Busaras (Central Bus Station is located in Store Street, Central Dublin). It was established in February of 1987 (27 years ago) when it split out from Córas Iompair Éireann. The company’s logo incorporated a red Irish setter, a breed dog which originated in Ireland, and traditionally this dog is considered friendly, reliable and fast, characteristics that the company wants to have to offer a good service for the customers. Bus Eireann is a public service, which means it must receive permission from the Department of Transport for any alterations to services

Virgin Atlantic was founded in 1984 to be a few years later to compete with British Airways even at its main airport: London

During the 2011, Ryanair have decided to decrease the airfare rate as a lower cost airline, but the controversy started when they started charging passengers for various reasons that are not necessary. The passengers concluded it as the cheaper but not cheerful airline. Ryanair charged extra for the name change on the passengers boarding pass, a boarding pass fees, excessive luggage fees per kilo, credit card use fees of the total amount, a checked musical instrument fees, a reserved seat fees, and the charges for a water bottle that requested by the passengers. Besides that, Ryanair also happened very often in poor customer service, hidden credit card charges, frequent delays the flights, and extra payments for fees or taxes. Nevertheless, the main controversy was caused by the charges where happened inside the cabin of the plane.

The same is applied to the airline industry as well. The companies like Lufthansa and Emirates Airways also have their own corporate and competitive strategies. Both of the organizations offers similar kind of services, but their strategies varies as both have their own set of goals and targets. Therefore the corporate and competitive strategies of both the organizations have been evaluated in terms of their competitive position, value creation for the stake holders, and strategic choice. 1.

INTRODUCTION This is the report from our evaluation of the Ryanair Holdings. Ryanair was found in 1985 and has its headquarters at the Dublin Airport Ireland. Flights began between Ireland and the United Kingdom in1986 as the new airline’s Dublin-London route challenged the British Airways-Aer-Lingus duopoly. Ryanair is the pioneer of the low-fares model in Europe and it is the largest European low fares airline. As the time changed, there are many threats come and hurt the Ryanair airline.

The inauguration of Virgin Australia Airlines, by Sir Richard Branson, as a domestic carrier in 2000 basically aimed at the convenience of the budget travelers. The Airlines was inaugurated as relaxed informal airline. Sir Richard was open-minded, amiable, and generous with his management team, imaginative, audacious and exclusive in his thoughtfulness. Initially started as a low-cost carrier, the company improved its services to turn itself into a “new-world carrier” as described by themselves (Virgin Blue media release, 2011, para. 2).However all these faltered when Qantas’ past marketing manager took over during 2011.

Looking at the respective case studies, SIA, EA and Lufthansa have shared similar challenges like striving for cost effectiveness and differentiation from competitors. Despite these similarities, SIA and EA seem to have survived throughout as an individual highly recognized brands while being involved in Star Alliance overshadows Lufthansa. As well, Lufthansa also operated with higher labor costs than low-cost players or emerging market competitors – years of union advocacy, pension fund obligations, and industry regulations forced these airlines to devote a larger share of revenues towards labor benefits. EA advantage mostly comes from government support and their self sufficient in fuel compared to the other two airlines. External factors like fuel prices or government factors may affect the airlines, but the root of sustaining competitive advantages still lies within the organization’s strategies and core values in order to gain

Will start with application of Michael Porter’s generic strategies to ‘Affordable sky’ (a new, no Frills airline) which is about to enter the U.S. market. Second we will try to work as a consultant for Affordable Sky’ airline, and based on the above excerpts about the airline industry, will try to choose the suitable entry strategy for this new company to adopt and we will try to explain why, finally we will discuss which diversification strategies or alternatives we may suggest and why? Also, explaining why we would advise Affordable Sky against having a joint venture with another established airline company. The question headed with this statement: ‘Recently, the growth and profitability of commercial air carriers in the USA has been impacted by many external factors. This industry saw four major players (United, US Airways, Delta, and Northwest) file for bankruptcy protection in the last decade or so.

1.0 Introduction to Strategic Management Strategic management practices the formation; achievement and reaching the major objectives executed by the management of the company, by considering the capital and a task of the internal and external environments in which the company wishes to compete. 1.1 Introduction to Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines (SIA) is established in year 1972 with remarkable performance among its competitors in the industry throughout its 35-year-long history till date (Heracleous & Wirtz, 2009). According to Singapore Airlines (2014), SIA is one of the youngest aircraft fleets worldwide to destinations crossing a network of more six continents, with its iconic Singapore Girl providing excellent standard of service to customers. Throughout the years of operations, SIA has an impressive ever-growing list of industry 's leading innovations such as offering free headsets along with a choice of meals and drinks in Economy Class in the 1970s, followed by introducing satellite based in-flight telephones in year 1991, involving an ample panel of renowned chefs, the International Culinary Panel, to provide lush in-flight meals in year 1998, developing audio and video on demand (AVOD) capabilities on KrisWorld in year 2001, and lastly flying the airbus of A380 from Singapore to Sydney on 25 October 2007 (Singapore Airlines, 2014).

Delta Air Lines Inc. The Rich History, Financial Statements and Position in the Market Delta Airlines Inc. founded by C.E. Woolman in 1928, began as a humble little aerial crop dusting operation out of Macon, Ga called Huff Daland Duster in 1924. Later renamed Delta Air Service in 1928 and flying its first passenger on June 17,1929 has definitely come a long way. From flying living vegetable plants to now flying over 160 million passengers to their destination of choice each year, is one of today’s global giants in the airline industry. Delta Air Lines commitment to exceptional service has given them the title of trendsetters in the industry.

2.0 Inputs - Transformation Process - Outputs 2.1 Inputs Operations management concerns with the conversion of inputs into revenue-creating outputs through the transformation process (Mahadevan, 2010, p.5). Slack et al. (1995 cited in McMahon-Beattie and Yeoman 2004, p.30) mention that inputs are divided in transformed and transforming. Transformed are those that are transformed in some way and transforming inputs are those that are used to carry out the transforming process.

> Founded in 1941 and based in Pasay City, The Philippine Airlines is the country 's ultimate flag carrier and oldest airlines. The monopolization of the airline occurred in 1995 when Lucio Tan, an affluent Chinese-Filipino businessman purchased the airline and became its chairman and CEO. . Global competition in the industry > Threat to new entrants: In spite of the low switching costs and the absence of proprietary goods and services, generally speaking, there is a low threat to new entrants in the airline industry. The huge amount of capital make reprisals against new entrants through a price drop.

Objectives 3.1 Focus on airport resources and technology to improve on time flights, arrival, baggage handling. Caribbean Airlines objectives are to have a flowing routine, by allowing customers to check in their baggage at any time and remove the fixed time according to the customer’s flight. The customers can enjoy the freedom of having lunch with families without the hassle of dragging multiple bags behind them. Another objective would be to improvement of flights scheduled, meeting each and every customers boarding time and even arriving to their destinations before time 3.2 Continue to develop and deploy travel innovations Caribbean Airlines will focus on a more innovative aircraft interior, giving passengers more leg room and better

Ryanair is a famous low-cost airline company which was established in 1985 by Tony Ryan family. It’s headquartered in Ireland and provides services across Europe. Ryanair was built on Southwest Airlines model, which is highly successful in US, and now Ryanair is one of the most successful and profitable low-cost airlines in the world. In this work, I would like to analyse Ryanair’s external and internal strengths and imperfections.