Air India Marketing Strategy

Air Asia is the founder of low cost airlines in the Asia region since the advent of deregulation by Malaysian Government in late 90’s which in itself is a very important economic factor, without deregulation a low cost Airline cannot enter the market. For the reason that of Air Asia’s lower price, the factors affected are the

Certain rates and charges are beyond the control of airline operators. For example, the airport departure, landing charges and security charges. These rates and charges is a big serious threat to all airlines especially budget airlines which intend to maintain their low cost strategy. Besides that, changes of certain aviation regulations and government policies can negatively affect AirAsia. The rules and regulations will increase the operation costs in producing value-added services and lead to a decrease in profits.

Strategic Planning: They try to do a lot of promotion and low-cost air ticket because Airasia company want to help everyone can afford the price to buy their air ticket to travel all around the world.

1. Instead of 16 different prices, American simplified its pricing structure to include only 4 kinds of fares: a first-class fare, a coach fare that can be bought anytime before flight time (full-fare), 21-day advance-purchase fare, and 7-day advance-purchase fare. The new fare structure was expected to reduce administrative labor costs related to managing different fares by $25 million annually. The change was also

Air India began its services in 1932 and has been operating in India for the last 78 years. It is the oldest passenger flight of India. The government of India holds 49% of Air India’s share with an option to acquire 2% more since 1946. This made Air India a public sector thus enabled it to operate flights internationally. In spite of being a public sector company Air India has been running in loss for the past 10 years.

The airline industry is greatly influenced by the the travel and tourism trends across the globe. The World Travel and Tourism Board states that the the level of tourism is likely to grow even as the years progress. The growth in the level of tourism is expected to grow at a level of 4.5 per cent annually. This is expected to continue upto 2017. Thus the organization should fully prepare it self and take over the tourism market.

Passenger air travel has been forecasted to increase to over 1 billion persons annually by 2023. This

Air asia provides air travel at substantially lower prices is also known as no-frills or discount carrier. The company offers low fares according to cut out the "non-essential" service. The low cost of airline ticket is extremely basic because it attains high passenger loads and cut out all the extra. It means that the company does not provide meals, drinks, or snacks served free on board. The low cost airlines offer the economy flight which is narrow seat compare with wider business class seats. It also does not allocate seats for passengers as like "free seating" to make passengers board the flight early to get their seat. The additional of schemes or sale promotion activities do not offer by the company as the pricing structures are low. Low cost airline is related to the operating cost are kept to the bare minimum with low wages, low airport fees, low long term maintenance contracts rates, and low fares. So that, Air Asia is able to reduce the overhead and investment in equipments substantially absence of fringe services. Therefore, Air Asia has the operating cost compared to other competitor

Air travelling is obviously considered as a very large industry: socially, economically, and politically. It is continuing to expand and has been

Airlines Industry is large and growing, it is also the most fiercely competitive sector. It facilitates international trade, world economy growth, tourism and international investment. The airline industry has over time with the use of modern technology been able to take advantage of the short haul, high frequency and gained a competitive advantage over other forms of travel, such as buses and railroad travel. Additionally, the airline industry still holds the market for global travel at a low cost and convenient way to travel. The aviation industry gives a good contribution to the GDP which includes the following: airline services, general aviation, civil airport operations, aircraft manufacturing, and

The growth of airline industry in any country is directly proportional to its GDP growth; the greater the business activity, the more air travel and the higher the GDP of the country. The demand

Air Deccan , being India’s first low cost airline, is a part of Deccan Aviation Private Limited, which is India's largest private heli-charter company. Established in 2003 and started operations in August that year, it has revolutionized air travel in India. It was taken over by Kingfisher Airlines in 2008.

Fares Management-To enable Malaysia Airlines to distribute fares more efficiently around the world and to improve pr icing decisions.

International Air Transport Association estimates the number of people flying in Asia will rise by 360 million to one billion in 2014. The

Dato’ Tony Fernandez was the entrepreneur that brought up AirAsia to be the one of the award wining the largest low fare airlines that is currently well known for now in Asia. Since then it has been flying to over 61 domestic and international destination with 108 routes, and furthermore it operates over 400 flights daily from hubs that are basically located in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.