Case 1: Emirates Airlines
Yaovi “Bri” Akakpo-04/15/2015
MGMT 4690, Professor Stewart
University of Denver, Daniels College of Business
Part I: Emirates Airlines, Present Situation
Where Emirates Competes:
Starting from humble beginnings to the international powerhouse it is today, Emirates Airlines is one of the most recognizable in the world. This is a direct result of the growth of its operations from a regional airline service focused to encompassing an international component. The company’s global headquarters is located in Dubai. In regards to industry standards, Emirates is young being in operation for just 28 years. Since then, it has grown to service 138 destinations globally, servicing 39.4 million customers, with an employment size of 48,000 (Figure 1, Appendix) and annual sales of $19.9 billion. One of its most dominant regions on the globe at the moment is the Middle East where it is the largest airline flying internationally 2,500 times in a given week.
Geographically, Emirates is very well positioned in Dubai, which it also uses as a strategic point due to the access that the region creates in reaching other countries including Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Oceanic and part of Africa. Being knowledgeable of global trends, it also began to compete in rising BRICS countries. (Pg. 3) It has managed to effectively penetrate into major European markets such as France, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom where it directly
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The company is relatively young. It was founded in 1985 and is one of the youngest companies of this sort in the world (The Emirates story, n.d). Moreover, is should be said that at the beginning its main aim was to guarantees delivery of tourists to the region. However, being sponsored by the government of the UAE the company started its blistering development. New planes were bought and new directions organized. Emirates Airlines has never stopped in its development and that is why nowadays it is one of the greatest international carriers, and the seventh largest airline in the world in terms of revenue (The Emirates story, n.d). The company does not have rivals in the Middle East and its current tempos of development allow to suggest that in several years it can become the best airline company in the world, leaving behind such giants as Lufthansa or American Airlines. The company mainly uses planes made by Boeing and Airbus. Nowadays there are 176 planes which can deliver people to any place in the world. With this in mind it is possible to say that Emirates Airlines is a huge international corporation which has its offices all over the
Further Emirates had the aspiration of becoming an international airline brand name from the airline establishment. The initial step of Emirates airline it made Emirates to connect with international airline services and start up to marketing the brand, serve worldwide. Even the Emirates airlines Employees had the vision and cultivated the mentality to build the Emirates brand internationally. All These motivational aspects made the pathways to the emirates airlines for rapid development and wide spreading on the routes.
There are many external factors that influence on emirates airline, which play an important term is airline those factors, are political, economic, social, technological, and legal factors. We will discuss each of them below through PEST analysis it is a useful tool that help to understand the industry situation as a whole.
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