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British Airways Case Study

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Problem Statement: In order to survive in the competitive market, British Airways (BA) and Iberia merged in 2010. Apart from pension deficit, British Airways also needed to deal with the decreasing customer satisfaction. Therefore, they decided to implement total quality management (TQM) to survive both short and long-term on the global market. To examine the existing quality issues and problems within this airline company, they conducted surveys which were distributed to customers and the supplying area. In addition, the quality manager was asked to assess how much time did the staffs devoted to quality related activities. Before the implementation of TQM, their profits had declined in the period of 2008 and early. However, their turn overrates increased 23% and the profits increased from £-425million (profit/loss after tax) to £ 281 million (profit/loss after tax) from 2010 to 2013. (Madar, 2015)
British Airways Overview:
British Airways is currently the largest international scheduled airline in the United Kingdom. It was a founding member of the Oneworld alliance with Cathy Pacific, American Airlines, and Qantas. This British air transport company was formed in 1974, merging from two nationalized airline corporations, British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways, plus two regional airline companies, Cambrian Airways, and Northeast Airlines. After being a state-owned airline company for the following thirteen years, it was privatized in

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