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Marketing Plan Of An Airline

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After exploring possible opportunities and deciding how I wanted my airline to operate, I had the idea to make my airline a Low-Cost Carrier. Thus, I would operate my airline to offer the minimum with the price of the ticket without sacrificing safety. Everything additional that you want, comes at an additional cost. This is a way for me to lower my operational costs, therefore, being able to offer lower fare prices to my customers. As a student, I know how difficult it can be trying to find airline tickets that I can afford. My target audience was those people, like myself, always looking for the best deal. Although this type of market plan is not for everyone, there will always be costumers who would pay more to have a more luxurious …show more content…

These various places might be what the people in California are looking for, a change of scenery. The second option I think would have worked is by offering two or more routes, splitting them by having some running to tourist locations and some running to popular business travel destinations. For example, I would have done an LA to New York throughout the week and then focus on more tourist locations during the weekend. This would offer something for everyone’s needs. Secondly, throughout half of the batches, I was underpaying my employee’s union wages which resulted in fines. I had also hired a cargo manager. Quickly I realized that I did not need a cargo manager and canceled that contract but that still resulted in a hefty separation fee. Although my airline did not have the tremendous success that I was counting on, I do however stand by some of my decisions. I believe that leasing my aircraft was the best decision. Had I started making profit earlier, I would have begun leasing additional aircrafts and increasing my market. I also feel that having my airline run as a low-cost carrier had the potential to make an enormous profit, I just did not have everything else set up properly. My aircraft was configured to offer the bare minimum without compromising safety or comfort. This decreased my cost of configuring as well as keeping my operational cost as a minimum. I also feel that I made the right choice of aircraft. The 737 is not

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