Delta Airlines Porter's 5 Forces

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.

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

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

A lucrative industry is always a target for investors looking at investment. One of the foremost factors in consideration while looking at the attractiveness of an industry is the threat of new entrants. In the airlines industry, this was a major threat a few years ago. The airlines operating in the industry were limited and the industry had few players like Indian Airlines and Jet Airways. However, as the industry had scope for accommodating more players, many players joined the fray. The airlines industry however comes with its fair share of barriers. The investment in the airlines is very huge and acts as a major barrier to entry. Bundled with it were different permits for running an airline company from the civil aviation company and FDI

The price competition among airlines remains strong. Levisohn (2017) reported on a price war between LCC Spirit Airlines and network carrier United (UAL), where Spirit Airlines called out Chicago, Houston and Newark as its target markets, and UAL has confirmed it is aggressively defending the above hub markets. It appears that AAL is most at risk in getting caught in the crossfire, as UAL is being very specific about lowering fares only on flights that match up with Spirit's schedule the risk is most likely highest for carriers that have a large amount of capacity in markets where United and Spirit are going head to head.

While Target is grappling with the immediate issue of eliminating “show-rooming” in their stores, the more pressing issue is, evolving their business model to fully exploit e-commerce to maintain a competitive advantage (Kinicki, 2013). Analysts estimated that customers would spend $1.4 trillion online in 2015 and yet, as late as 2011 e-commerce only accounted for approximately 2% of Target’s overall sells (Kinicki, 2013). Therefore, Target’s management team must create and execute a strategy that enables Target to adjust to changing customer purchasing patterns, significantly increase internet sells, and lower operational cost (Kinicki, 2013).

in revenue passenger-kilometers flown with 277.6 billion. In 2015 their revenue was up $40.704 billion, operating income was up $9.520 billion, and net income of $926 million. Delta’s total assets were down in 2015 with $53.134 billion. Total equity was up with $10.85 billion. The results that we will be discussing will include the RPM, ASM, and Load Factor from May 2015 and May 2016. The results will show the year to date traffic results and the monthly traffic results change.

Duke Energy Corporation is the largest electric power holding company in the United States. They are a leading energy company focused on electric power and gas distribution operations, and other energy services in the Americas. These services include a growing portfolio of renewable energy assets. Duke Energy supplies and delivers energy to approximately 7.3 million U.S. customers (Fast Facts). Their market cap for 2014 was $57.5 billion with operating revenues of $23.9 billion (Fast Facts). Duke Energy's headquarters is located in Charlotte, NC. The total United States generation capacity owned by Duke Energy is 57,500 megawatts (Fast Facts). They employ more than 27,000 people. Duke Energy's operations are in North and South Carolina, Ohio, Florida and Indiana, representing a population of approximately 22 million people (Fast Facts). Duke Energy stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.

The Delta airlines serve more than 170 million customers each year.the survey conducted by Business travel news annually the delta airlines came No.1 for four continues years.

Technological advancements, mergers and acquisitions, volatility in crude oil prices, currency depreciation, ground staff management and baggage handling are the major external factors for Delta Air Lines. The Monroe oil refinery purchased by Delta Air Lines provides an opportunity for the company to deal with the volatility in crude oil prices. Presently Delta Airline is over dependent on the North American markets, which had experienced a major hit during the recession in 2008.

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 market position and future potential.

Delta “focuses on shifting their cost structure from fixed to variable costs as much as possible.” (https://rctom.hbs.org/submission/delta-airlines-flying-high-in-a-competitive-industry/) Delta also understands the importance the importance of delivering top notch customer service to appeal to their principal demographic, business travelers. They have incorporated a training work-shop so employees have a better understanding of how to solve travel disruptions that customers deal with. Employees also learn how to help insure that baggage performance is up to par with a low amount of mishandled bags reports from customers. Delta has done this by incorporating a way for customers to track their bags using a mobile app. In the Business Travel News Delta has been ranked #1 by corporate flyers for four years in a row. I believe the business level strategies that Delta has incorporated have been a good choice for their business. Their strategies have helped them to gain a competitive advantage from customer service and great operating cost flexibility.

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

From the humble financial portfolio as a crop dusting outfit in the mid twentieth century, to the multi-billion dollar portfolio of a major airline in the twenty first century, Delta Air Lines has risen as a successful business. The airline industry is directly affected by outside economic conditions and is also cyclical in nature. These factors make it very difficult for airlines to make predictions to stay financially afloat. Delta has ridden the bumpy path of the last twenty years and managed to survive. In the past twenty years there has been many events that