In today economics condition, customers are more prefer to buy products or services at lower price but good quality. Therefore, the suitable business level strategy that can be offer by a company such Ryanair Holdings is a low cost business level strategy if it want to reduce number of competitors or no competitors. Low cost business level strategy is a strategy in which a company offers a product or services at lower price in the market to attract customers to buy its products or services. Therefore, Ryanair Holdings need to reduce it cost of operations in order to offer a lower price of services. It is one of the generic marketing strategies that can be adopted by any company. In our opinion, low cost business level strategy can make Ryanair …show more content…
Valuable is measure through the ability of the business in implementing strategies that improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the business operation. In the Ryanair Holdings case the business are valuable since they are able to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their business by using a primary method of the cost control that used a single model of the aircraft that allows minimizing of training and maintenances cost, efficient management of spare part inventory and more flexible scheduling of flight crew. By using a single model that have been widely used, the flight crew are more readily available for hire. This will reduce the cost of training since the company does not need to provide their flight crew with any training and also ensure that they flight crew ability to handle the flight and reduce the possible number of defect. Besides that, the effectiveness of Ryanair Holding customer services that deliberately reduce the services in some area such as free checked bag, meals, flight to major airport and raising the services in other area such as on-time departure and arrival and also fewer bag lost has attract more customer since they believe that the customer will endure discomfort and indignity as long as they get to their destination cheaply and with their suitcase on time. This valuable aspect will assure the competitive advantages of Ryanair in the long run since them able to attract customer with effectiveness and
Ryanair was established in the year 1985 by the RYAN family and has grown from a small airline flying a short hop from Waterford to London, into one of the Europe’s largest carriers. The company expanded and within 4 years it had 350 employees, 14 aircraft, and carried 600,000 passengers a year. It is currently serving to 26 European Countries with 148 destinations. It operates on 794 different routes daily serving by more than 1050 flights in a day. It has totally 169 aircrafts running for different routes with 5986number of employees working in it However, Ryanair’s costs rose drastically and it recorded losses of £20 Million sover four years despite its growth. Although consumers were continuing to fly Ryanair
They started off absolutely focused on cost, then they focused on choice and then they improved the service. As is displayed below, while Ryanair may have isolated pockets of cost disadvantage, such as Route charges or Airport handling, however at an overall level, the cost advantage for Ryanair is much more than its other LCC fraternity. Ryanair enjoys a whooping 76% cost advantage over its nearest competitor EasyJet. This cost differential helps Ryanair to pass the value benefit to its end customers. (Please refer Exhibit 2)
After researching and went through many articles which were published on the Ryanair Airline in Europe. To me, the online resources are more utilized as book resources which can be dated back to 20th century or more. The article 's which I read gives different facts and the information on marketing strategies which were used by the Ryanair Airline. Many of the contents are related to the work which I learned from this course on Airlines, and Airline Management and Marketing. The Ryanair Airline is known for its ' low airfare and consistent profitability and rapid growth. I think, the main goal for the Ryanair Airline is to provide low airfares for their customers and give high level of service, most of Ryanair passengers get excellent
A unique cost cutting policy would be the main core competence of Ryanair. It refuses to provide any meal vouchers or hotel accommodation for flights which are delayed or cancelled for reasons beyong Ryanair’s control in order to reduce the operating cost. (Ryanair, 2011) Meanwhile, Ryanair is using LFA business model to design the size of its
The strategic plan of Ryanair has been to establish itself as Europe’s leading low-fares airline.” Ryanair aims to offer low fares that generate increased passenger traffic while maintaining a continuous focus on cost-containment and operating efficiencies.” (www.ryanair.com)
Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the businesslevel strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or
The purpose of my assignment has been done in terms of strategic analysis, its formulation and implementation of Ryanair organization. The assignment is developed by three parts which includes variety of questions in the each part.
In order for a business or corporation to grow and expand at a calculated pace, they must be able to strategize the proper business plan to get there. A strategy is a set of analytic techniques for understanding and influencing the firm 's position in the marketplace (Raimundo, 2001). Having a business
Low fares- This is a result of lower costs, enabling Ryanair to offer lower costs than their competitors. If Ryanair can replicate their current cost model which has proved so successful in the European market and transfer it into transatlantic routes, they could offer flights at a significant amount less than Delta and BA.
Ryanair is one of the largest airlines in terms of passenger numbers (REF) and has continuously grown in size and value over time as shown above. The extent of such an expanding firm is conveyed over the last eight years as Ryanair’s profits have more than quadrupled. However, there have been drops in profits in 2004 and 2008. In 2004, the airline was hugely affected by the conflicts in Iraq, the renewed threat of terrorism and endless increasing oil prices. However, in this same period, Ryanair managed to launch new bases in Rome and Barcelona, launch 73 new routes, takeover their competitor Buzz for a knock-down price and carry more passengers than BA in the European market. The reason for the decrease in profits in 2008 was due to increases in fuel prices and significantly increased airport charges, particularly at their largest bases at Stansted and Dublin.
Over the years, company sustained low operation costs and tickets prices following well-developed strategy. Among other measures, it was able to keep prices low by flying only one airplane type, minimizing service and maintenance expenses, and convincing employees to cut gate turn-around times and make the airline more efficient (Fitzpatrick, 2005).
Prior to 1991, Ryanair had suffered from continuous losses from 1985 to 1989. The first reason that put it into this situation was that it tried to position itself as a low fare airline with the first rate services. It tried to keep low and unrestricted fare, while keep focusing on the best customer service and relationship. This mixed model was proven inefficiency. The low price could lure number of
The Cost leadership strategy aims for the business to have a low price product being the lowest-cost producer. The differentiation strategy involves the development of high quality unique product or services which is usually priced high. Focus is the third generic strategy based on competitive scope. A focus strategy targets narrow segment of domain of activity and tailors its products or services to the news of that specific segment to the exclusion of others. (Exploring Corporate Strategy, 2012). An example of a company that currently follows the cost leadership strategy is Ryanair. Ryanair Ltd is an Irish low-cost airline based in Dublin Airport with operational bases at Dublin and London Stansted Airports. The airline has been characterised by rapid expansion, a result of the deregulation of the aviation industry in Europe in 1997 and the success of its low-cost business model. Although initially this strategy was used to gain competitive advantage over competitors, their success has seen the emergence of approximately 60 new low-cost airlines. As Porters generic strategy model states that a company has to choose one of these strategies and try not to combine both strategies it meant that other companies could try to emulate their success by employing the same strategy and an example of companies that have done this is EasyJet and Aer Lingus. However later on in Porters career he understood that are some circumstances
The objective of this report is to appraise and evaluate the external environment, internal capabilities of Ryanair and assess the competitive environment. This project report also evaluates the marketing focus deployed by Ryanair in the year 2009 when the airline achieved a benchmark by being Europe’s largest carrier by passenger numbers and market capitalisation.