Ma 211 Statistics With Aviation Applications

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 fleet is made up of mainly Boeing 737 fuel efficient airplanes which spent an average 11 hours in the air daily

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.

Many airlines offer a variety of service and flight options, and airlines have many different types of planes to meet that range of options. While this diversifies an airline 's offerings, it also increases operating costs and dilutes the core messaging of the company (Invesopedia, 2017). Southwest Airlines, on the other hand, only uses one type of plane, the Boeing 737. This saves Southwest Airlines millions in yearly maintenance costs and other operating costs this allows the company to offer low price solutions to its customers.

What began as a small Texas airline has grown to become one of the largest airlines in the United States. Today, Southwest Airlines flies over 70 million passengers per year to more than 62 cities. Southwest orchestrates over 3,000 flights per day. The Southwest fleet consists of over 436 jets which have an average age of nine years old. Included in

This research is being submitted on June 14, 2010, for Mr. Bergeen’s Microeconomics course at Rasmen College by John Divler.

American Airlines is the largest the airline company in the world measured by fleet size, revenue, number of destinations served, and scheduled passenger miles flown. Operating a total of 6.700 flights daily, while utilizing over 900 aircrafts, American flies to roughly 350 destinations in 50 countries. Employing over 100,000 employees worldwide, American cites much of its success from its elite and talented workforce. However, American has been forced to overcome significant obstacles since its merger with US Airways in 2013. Consequently, the merger has been slated as one of the most successful mergers in US History. Though proven arduous, their continued hyper-focus and commitment to all elements of its corporate strategy and vision ensured

Alternative Hypothesis: The average amount of flight hours of Delta Airline routes is not equal to the average amount of flight hours of Southwest Airlines routes

American Airlines throughout its 90 year existence has been constantly linked to aviation greatness. From its first flight by the legendary Charles Lindbergh, to its 2015 ranking as the “World’s Most Profitable Airline.” American Airlines currently boasts the largest aircraft fleet in the industry with over 900 aircraft and during 2015 that fleet carried a nation leading 146 million enplaned passengers. In the following we will look at how a small mail carrier evolved and survived amongst its competitors to become one of the top airlines in the world.

After calculating the annualized stock price and S&P 500 found in the appendices section I was able to come up with a few comparisons among the U.S airlines. Southwest and Delta have stood out in the past few years for producing consistently strong profits. American airlines have been on the decline the last few years and stocks are still falling due to its higher prices than the other airlines. Investors have acknowledged the strong performance made by Delta and South which helped their stocks improve in recent years. However, the airlines S&P 500 has been on the decline over the past couple years after the company lowered its unit revenue outlook in the past three years. Southwest unit revenue 10 years ago was on the decline due to the 2007

Since the enormous breakthrough of aviation, early in the 20th century, commercial airlines have been playing the most part of our sky. One of the oldest, successful, and known airlines is the American Airlines. Today, this airline carries more fleet than any other airline in the entire world, which makes it solidly one of the biggest names in the aviation industry.

The question addressed is if the airline Southwest meets or exceeds the national rate for on-time performance at the Oklahoma City airport. The data collected from the BTS is categorized into either on-time or not on-time for Oklahoma City and nationwide. The BTS data was a complete collection from participating airlines, which consist of airlines with 1 percent or more of scheduled domestic passenger revenues. A Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit test was selected for use.

The Southwest Airlines was established in 1967 by Herb Kelleher and Rollin King and adopted its current name in 1971. The airline company is a best known for its lowest prices in the airline industry. To better understand the strengths and weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats of the company if through the S.W.O. T. analysis. The strengths and weaknesses are internal factors while opportunities and threats are external factors.

The Airline industry has been around for decades, but in the long run it is still a pretty new type of industry. Therefore, there are still growing pains that need to be worked out. There are many small companies, but the major Southwest competitors are Delta/Northwest, Continental/United, JetBlue, and Allegiant.

Based on the case study, and on online and offline research into Southwest Airline’s current state, complete the following Tasks: