Delta Airlines Porter's 5 Forces

Even though they have the leadership of an executive board, they are a publicly traded company with shareholders. “Delta provides scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo throughout the United States and around the world.” (Delta Annual Report, 2013, pg. 2) This passenger and cargo business brought in a hefty $10.5 billion showing a $1.5 billion increase from 2012. As of December 31, 2013, Delta owned 592 aircraft. They had 94 on capital lease and 57 on operating lease bringing their fleet number to 743 total aircraft. Delta had commitments to purchase 147 more airplanes, lease 75 more and options for 42 additional aircrafts. Delta’s regional carriers, who they are partnered with, operate 532 aircraft. These partners are Endeavor Airlines, Express Incorporated, Sky West Airlines, Compass Airlines, Shuttle America Corporation, GoJet Airlines, LLC, and Chautauqua Airlines Incorporated. Delta also leases most of their land and occupied buildings. Their main offices are located at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta which is leased from the city of Atlanta, Georgia. They own real property in Atlanta, Georgia, St. Paul, Minnesota, Minot, North Dakota, Chisholm, Minnesota, and Tokyo, Japan. Impressively, Delta is in every major domestic market and they use a hub and spoke system making it easier to reach all geographical regions in the

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

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides an examinaion of the current structure, performance, stragergy and management of Delta Airlines, along with an industry analysis of the airline industry. The report uses current and past financial and statistical data for the company along with other up to date material to determine Delta's current

Delta airlines have multilateral and formed alliances with other airlines. This is beneficial since the airline is able to gain access to international airlines. By forming alliance, the airlines share

Delta Airlines initially started out as a very small crop dusting operation named Huff Daland Dusters in 1942 (Delta, 2016). Today, Delta has become one of the largest global airlines with serving more than 160 million travelers each year (Delta, 2016). Delta airlines provide both domestic and international flights to customers to 318 destinations over a span of six continents. They also have nine domestic hubs and three international hubs (Delta, 2016).

While Frontier and Delta are both popular choices of airlines for Americans, Delta has become more of a household name because of their friendlier service, more comfortable cabins, and their limited extras fees. Frontier airline still is a worthy competitor by being cheaper, but they also have many added on fees for things that are free with Delta. Overall, Delta knows how to take better care of their customers and make sure everyone is satisfied.

I was once asked, if I thought the decision to reorganize of the state was right. Specially taking about creating the JDOC command structure, I said, “who else is going to do what we are doing?” The job of domestic operations has always been an additional duty, with very little time for planning or preparing for upcoming events. We are a reactive organization and I can see how that can kill us in the end. Our focus in the past 15 years has been on how prepare to go to war, which is our federal mission, and we have forgotten how to take care of our citizens in our own back yard which is our state mission. This reorganization has forced us to look to our left and right, and view the Oregon National Guard a one force both Army and Air. We as an organization are learning each other’s capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, and how we can better support each other in the

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: Past Present and Future Delta Airlines have transformed over the decades. They started out as a crop dusting company, blossomed into an airline company, fought litigations, went bankrupt, then resurrected it and merged with Northwest Airlines to become one of the biggest airline companies in the world. Their aircraft, operations, and cities and countries that they service have transformed and blossomed as well.

The SO category suggests three alternatives. The first alternative is to include airlines in India and China under the Sky Team alliance. By doing this, Delta can penetrate into untapped emerging markets and increase its presence. The reason we suggest India and China is because these countries were amongst the lowest to be affected by recession and Delta doesn’t have its prevalence in these regions (http://www.economist.com/node/15172941). Secondly, Delta can capitalize on creating its hubs in India strategically in the long run after gaining access to these markets. The airline will benefit from larger population in both the countries and the government in India encourages Foreign Direct Investment in comparison to China. The third strategy promote business traveler programs in the U.S. Business travelers spend more on their trips and are not as

Q12b - OE_PreferredInvestmentWhy Why do you say that? [Reasons for preferred investment] "Southwest and Delta. Southwest has a differentiated business model and is able to offer a better service at a lower cost across the markets it serves, allowing it to sustain a higher level rate of return. Delta has a better network than the other network carriers American and United, and has a better understanding of how to maximize the revenue potential within the cabins and the service it's flying."

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

American Airlines, Inc. (AA), commonly referred to as American, is a major American airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. American Airlines was developed from a conglomeration of 82 small airlines through acquisitions in 1930 and on June 25,1936 it became the first airline to fly the DC-3 in commercial service

Delta Air Lines began in the early 1920’s as a crop dusting operation, known as the Huff Daland crop dusting company, and was based out of Macon, Ga. This was the first agricultural flying company in existence at the time and grew into the world’s largest privately owned fleet of aircraft (18 planes) by the mid 1920’s. At the turn of the decade, co-founder C.E. Woolman lead a movement to purchase Huff Daland and re-branded the company as Delta Air Service, named after the Mississippi River Delta region the company would navigate.

IV. The Future of the Airline Industry The Airline Industry is in an interesting situation. Simply adding a low cost alternative is not enough in the industry. The Internet has made the power of buyers grow with the transparency of ticket prices. This is not something that will change any time