Sir/Ma’am, as asked I have looked into the possibility of Southwest Airlines obtaining the open slots at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. As you are aware, ATA Airlines Inc. had ceased operations making sixteen slots available at LaGuardia. Southwest Airlines have been exploring North-East markets and obtaining the open slots at LaGuardia would provide the opportunity Southwest needs to do so. There are disadvantages to obtaining these slots though. LaGuardia is one of the busiest, most congested airports in the United States. This could cause Southwest to delay flights due to an extended turn over time. A standing policy of Southwest Airlines is that it is always on time, this could adversely affect this policy. Another issue that could arise is LaGuardia is notorious for poor customer service, this goes against the “customer first” policy. In addition, New York City is a place of high wages and high costs of doing business. With the current recession, this could be …show more content…
It would allow Southwest to continue to grow, growth in revenue. Included in the growth would be increasing the customer base by connection to new destinations. It would allow Southwest Airlines loyal customers to meet the demand on new forecast. Southwest Airlines have a previous code sharing agreements with ATA Airlines and have operational insights. There are long term employees who are ready to work in New York and the availability of aircraft by 2009. This will also give Southwest entry into the North-East region that it has been looking for. Southwest will be able to go coast-to-coast. Southwest will take a large step forward operating round trip flights, seven days a week in the largest city in the United States. Southwest will also enter New York with a larger route network than competitors such as JetBlue Airways Corp., which is an airline that promotes many of the services like low ticket
It would bring in more customers and the customers that have flown before will probably fly again. Employees love spending time on the airplane talking to the customers. Customers like employees who make them feel safe or a person who is fun to talk to. Capacity is another thing that will affect the company. Even though there are more people coming in, Southwest Airlines will have to have more plane to transport people. If they do not, things will fall down. Second, it is the time management; because if the company is slow, they would go to another airplane company. Some companies take forever to get their flyers abroad. They get all of their flyers abroad quicker than some others even though Southwest Airlines is a larger company. Southwest Airlines either avoid canceling people tickets besides the weather or they change tickets to another flight quicker. When people accidently put the wrong place, Southwest Airlines can change it quickly unlike some other
As a member of management Clive Jenkins is responsible for boosting employee morale to ensure that company goals are met
Southwest Airlines is a major US airline established in 1967 that services a multitude of cities in all 50 states and beyond. The company is known for its outstanding quality in providing services and it 's cost effective ticket prices to its many passengers throughout the nation. This airline is based in the southwestern United States, in the city of Dallas Texas, and due to the tremendous number of airplanes that it has and the timely service that it provides to its passengers, this airline services more US passengers than any other airline. This airline also has the largest fleet of planes of any economical or low-cost airline service in the world and employees more than 45,000.
Mr. Hugh Tudor (55 yrs) is a well-known person in Milville, where he has been living for 30 years. He is involved in lot of social activities and has a reasonable pension and savings. He is becoming restless in his retirement and shows interest in investing in The Leeds Livery, local British pub in Milville, which could provide him with more challenges. While discussing this matter with his friend, he found out that the pub has great potential to perform well as it once exceeded the profit percentage of the industry. Mr. Tudor is in the process of exploring this opportunity but still has several questions rising in his mind.
In both Mark Twain’s “Two Ways of Seeing a River” and Charles Yale Harrison “In the Trenches,” the authors use elaborate imagery to enhance the reader’s perception of their autobiographical narratives. The descriptive language allows Twain to illustrate an image of the once lustrous river in the reader’s mind while it allows Harrison to immerse the reader in the gruesome reality of the trenches. Both authors effectively use sensory imagery to describe their surroundings; however, they use different approaches. Twain creates visual images in the reader’s mind whereas Harrison uses all the senses to augment the reader’s imagination.
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Southwest Airlines Co., established in 1971 by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher, began its operations with only three Boeing 737 aircrafts. It is headquartered in Dallas, Texas(Hawkins, Misra, & Tang, 2012). Southwest is well known as one of the largest low-cost carriers. With this strategy, the company has dramatically grown up and deeply rooted in the US airline industry. Now, Southwest Airlines Co. operates 633 aircrafts to 93 domestic cities and the highest number of passengers used Southwest Airlines to fly around U.S in Jan 2014 (Hawkins, Misra, & Tang, 2012). To accomplish more than 40th consecutive years of both profitability and competitiveness, Southwest Airlines Company is constantly trying to find the routes to differentiate itself from other domestic carriers (Hawkins, Misra, & Tang, 2012).
Southwest Airlines has recently acquired AirTran Airways, which was a global company, this acquisition it put Southwest in a great spot to expand to the global market. Southwest is integrating the AirTran Airways international stops in Aruba, Jamaica, the Bahamas with their original domestic stops in Atlanta, Baltimore, and Orlando starting July 1st 2014 according to an article in US Today. Next they are looking to service 6 Latin American destinations including Belize City, Cancun, Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta, and San Jose del Cabo/ Los Cabos starting in October 2015 (Zacks Equity Research, 1-2). These Latin American destinations are strategic because they are close to Southwest’s headquarters in Dallas TX, and they are prime vacation spots (Jones, 3). This will give more people a cheaper way to vacation, and bring more people into these
When USAA started in 1922, they were a property and casualty insurance company however, with time they expanded their services to their members and became a financial institution.
Southwest Airline employees mainly belong to the Union and they are mainly full time workers. Since the Union has demand more services and benefits for their members, the company gain limited profit. To fix this the company should hire more part time workers instead of full time workers because they do not have to provide full benefits and instead focusing on gaining profit. And also, Southwest Airlines should make all flights within the states point-to-point flights, and give their employees a strict time lines to alleviate delays. This will keep an accurate time frame for customers. As far as the flight concerns, Southwest Airline has only one dependable
While Southwest Airlines has increased their global distribution system network in recent years, there are still areas
In the opinion of Dr. Grace S. Thomson, “a heterogeneous mix of long and short-haul in very thing segments, passenger, density, and per capita income at end points gives [Southwest Airlines] competitive advantage. The way to establish a company in such a market as the airline industry would be to strategically expand in to airports with less competition. Southwest Airline capitalized on this fact to become a national airline (Keller 2008). Southwest Airlines satisfies what were once negligible markets. Southwest serves “64 cities in 411 non-stop city pairs” (Thompson 2008). Saturating these markets has allowed Southwest Airlines to expand without putting a strain on its pocket book (Keller
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Currently, Southwest does not serve any destinations outside the United States, but it is planning to begin international services or ticket international flights in 2009 (Wikipedia, 2008). The company has established a code sharing partnership with just a single airline on the USA market – ATA Airlines, and the plans of international expansion were partially based on this partnership. However, in March 2008, ATA Airlines declared bankruptcy and filed for Chapter 11 protection after it lost a key military charter contract in the middle of skyrocketing fuel prices, leaving Southwest Airlines alone (Dance, 2008).