Delta Airlines Financial Analysis

For my news report I turned to the website Prnewsonline.com and I supplemented my research with information from the BET website. These websites were incredibly helpful in my research gathering process. I feel that these sources were reliable and for the most part unbiased news sources in which I could gather accurate and relevant information to my issue.

One of the culprits hindering higher education for Americans is the tuition rates. A report by the Delta Cost Project indicates that if tuition had grown in pace with inflation, the average tuition at in-state public colleges would only have been $2,052 in 2010. The actual price of tuition was around $7,500, and it is increasing at around 5% per year, about twice as fast as the rate of inflation. Whereas everything else in the economy doubles in cost about every 32 years, college costs have been doubling around every 15 years. In a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, titled How the Changing Market Structure of U.S. Higher Education Explains College, the author, Caroline Hoxby, states that universities have little incentive

One reason for their success is because of the commitment of the mission statement that is that the company is dedicated to the highest quality of customer service delivered with a sense of warmth, friendless, sense of individual pride and company spirit. Their low, discount air fares and bags fly, free the point to point services, and the strong fleet base which

Delta Airlines in a major American airline company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The company was founded on May 30, 1924. They operate as an extensive domestic and international network. Delta currently operates a fleet of more than 700 aircraft and they employ approximately 80,000 people. In 2011 they were the world’s largest airline in terms of fleet size. Delta Airlines is a very successful company. Part of what makes them so successful is expansion, making good decisions in route selection and hubs location, being service oriented, having a strong operation management, being reactive in terms of prices, and offering low fares.

This memo focuses on the dividend payout, dividend yield, and dividend per share of Southwest Airlines, while comparing its performance and dividend strategy to that of the industry.

Delta Airlines is the largest airline carrier on the Atlantic Coast. In terms of scheduled passengers carried they were world’s largest airline with 277.6 billion in 2013. Also the second largest

Delta Airlines is a major American airline company and one of the world’s largest global airlines. The company has operation hubs in the USA, Japan, and France. (Delta Airlines, 2016).

In this case study Pete refers to what the Delta Airlines accountant told him in response to his inquiry as to why his bonus did not include the $5,000,000 sale placed on December 30th, “something about matching revenues and expenses.” (Warren, Reeve, Duchac, 2016) Pete and Sonia are questioning when exactly sales transactions are recorded, what defines the period in which a sale is recognized. Delta Airlines is operating under the matching concept of accounting. This concept requires all revenues and their related expenses to be recorded during the same accounting period. The matching concept is used while working under the accrual basis of accounting. When using accrual accounting one must record all revenue as it is earned and expenses when

The company I chose to research is Delta which is in the airlines industry. Delta is one of the world’s largest global airlines that assist more than 160 million travelers get to destinations around the world. The company started in 1924 as a small aerial crop dusting operation known as Huff Daland Dusters. In 1929 Delta had its first passenger flights that went from Dallas, Texas to Jackson, Mississippi. This flight was taken on an airplane that carried 5 passengers and 1 pilot. Delta has been offering its service to customers for 85 years. For four consecutive years, Delta has been ranked No. 1 in the Business Travel News Annual Airline survey. This is a huge accomplishment because it is a first for any airline. It is important

The report finds that Delta Airlines has successfully emerged from its bankruptcy in 2005 to report successful returns in both 2007 and 2008. With its 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines Delta became the world's largest airline, further improving its position in the airline industry. Despite this current positive position report also finds potential adversities

Two organizations that I choose to compare are Southwest Airlines and Delta Airlines. I noticed that between the two airlines they both give the option for customers to book a flight, hotel, car, or vacation very clear. They place the options on of the page where anyone that is interested in flying with them wouldn’t have a hard time finding it. On the homepage you also notice that there are deals available which interest many customers. Many airlines charge extra for bags, but Southwest and Delta advertise on their website about free bag check-in. In my opinion southwest website has the best site. The colors are vibrant and draw a lot of customers’ attention. Also, I feel like the page is easier to operate compare to Delta. Everything that

New technology: Internet (60% of seats were booked on-line), paperless operation, computerized, Reservation operation (not using call center)

The airline is ranked amongst the top ten carriers worldwide in terms of passenger kilometers, and has become the largest airline in the Middle East in terms of revenue, fleet size, and passengers carried as of 2007. (gulfnews.com, 2007) In 2012 the airline was the fourth largest airline in the world in terms of international passengers carried, and scheduled passenger – kilometers flown.

Looking at the brief history of Boeing, the company was first founded in Puget Sound, Washington in 1916 by William Edward Boeing.

Other core strategy is flying to win customer and by observing and studying the non-financial aspect during the implementation of BTP1, they succeed in maintaining the customers’ value. This resulted in MAS receiving 11 non financial-awards during this phase including 5-Star Airline Award, 2006 and 2007 from Skytrax, Best Airline to Asia, 2006, Travel Weekly Globe Award and numerous cabin service awards from Skytrax, Readers Digest