Pest Analysis on Airasia

This report largely focuses on constructing a situational analysis of Qantas Airlines. An organisations situational analysis refers to an analysis that consists of ascertaining the key factors that will be used as a basis for development of marketing strategy. (Elliot 2014). Situational analysis consists of the environment analysis (both internal and external environment), competitor’s analysis and finally the swot analysis.

The “ Battle Of The Air” has been used to describe current situation in the airline industry. The emergence of “ No Frills “ discount carriers such as Air Asia, Mahlindo, Firefly have threatened the survival of the traditional giants such as MAS, SIA, Thai Airways in the APAC regions and even the Big Boys across the continents such as United, Delta, Continental, Luftansa, Emirates and US Airway ( Myron J.Smith, 2012 ) face competition

Air Asia is the founder of low cost airlines in the Asia region since the advent of deregulation by Malaysian Government in late 90’s which in itself is a very important economic factor, without deregulation a low cost Airline cannot enter the market. For the reason that of Air Asia’s lower price, the factors affected are the

Airline industry is a unique and complex industry, thus without a good and right management, it is impossible for AirAsia to compete with the complex business environment. The management team of AirAsia consist of different background of executive management members team from different kinds of industry professionals and ex-top government officials. This ascendancy brings AirAsia to have a very strong connection with the government and the airline industry leaders. However, it is more concern in the management internally rather than creating competitiveness. The team is very famous in strategy formulation and execution. AirAsia formulated a brilliant blend of several proven strategies by other low cost airlines. Those strategies included Ryanair's Operational Strategy which emphasis on "no frill" and landing in secondary airport is a good starting point for the organisation. Second strategy like Southwest's People Strategy focus mainly on employee comes first strategy, while third strategy, EasyJet’s Branding Strategy is an excellent idea by linking the organization with other service providers like hotels, car rental and so

AirAsia is a strong company with several unique strengths that offer itself could not be defeated by others competitor companies.

In 2010, views on whether low-fare airlines would continue to flourish in Asia varied. Three factors regulation, population demographics, and socioeconomic trends -drove this calculus. Although the target consumer base for AirAsia was enormous -more than 500 million

AirAsia X’s main strength is the low price that it offers for customers. For most airlines in the industry, it is extremely difficult to keep the price low for long-haul flights as the full services offered in most airlines increase the operating costs. In addition, X also benefited from the expansive network, infrastructure and customers that AirAsia already has that enabled them to grow fast with good financial outcomes. On the other hand, X’s main weakness is the technology. The website always crashes and the company doesn’t have its own database of customers. X also doesn’t enjoy from a strong relationship with the Malaysian Transport Ministry. This can be detrimental to the company as it finds competing with Malaysia Airlines in some profitable routes to be difficult. However, X has some opportunities. For example, in order to keep the low price ticket, cooperating with fuel companies which will offer low fuel price and increasing demand in low cost airlines will bring profits. The major threat for AirAsia X is the protectionist measures taken by the Malaysian government that prevented X from flying planes to some destinations with high demand. This would have been a very

The failure of bilateral agreements within the Asia-Pacific regions negatively impacts on low-cost carriers of that region leading to their underdevelopment (Hooper, Duangphastra & University of Sydney. 1998). In addition, landing charges imposed on AirAsia and other low-cost airlines negatively affect their growth within the region. Conversely, liberalization within Southeast Asia has greatly helped in eliminating air transport charges thus giving AirAsia and other airlines the reason to operate beyond

Air Asia leading airline was established with the dream of making flying possible for everyone. Since 2001, Air Asia has swiftly broken travel norms around the globe and has risen to become the world’s best. With a route network that spans through to over 20 countries, Air Asia continues to pave the way for low-cost aviation through our innovative solutions, efficient processes and a passionate approach to business. Together with our associate companies, Air Asia X, Thai Air Asia, Indonesia Air Asia, Philippines Air Asia and Japan Air Asia.

Air asia provides air travel at substantially lower prices is also known as no-frills or discount carrier. The company offers low fares according to cut out the "non-essential" service. The low cost of airline ticket is extremely basic because it attains high passenger loads and cut out all the extra. It means that the company does not provide meals, drinks, or snacks served free on board. The low cost airlines offer the economy flight which is narrow seat compare with wider business class seats. It also does not allocate seats for passengers as like "free seating" to make passengers board the flight early to get their seat. The additional of schemes or sale promotion activities do not offer by the company as the pricing structures are low. Low cost airline is related to the operating cost are kept to the bare minimum with low wages, low airport fees, low long term maintenance contracts rates, and low fares. So that, Air Asia is able to reduce the overhead and investment in equipments substantially absence of fringe services. Therefore, Air Asia has the operating cost compared to other competitor

The SWOT and PEST analysis can be referred to as the analysis tools which are used to identify the organizational. A SWOT analysis is the study of an organization about the strength, weaknesses, external opportunities and threats of the organization. Pest analysis is another tool or framework which is used to determine the macro environment of any organization. The marketers uses the pest analysis to analysis the political, environmental, social and technological impacts of the organization. In this report various types of marketing techniques or tools are used to understand the Qantas environmental strategy.

Air Asia is low cost carrier from Malaysia, which established, since 2001. Air Asia is now one of the largest low cost airlines in Asia with the philosophy of "Now everyone can fly". Air Asia believes in working efficiency in every part of the business which have to be concerned with the low fare business concept that include no-frills and hassle-free.

Airline industry is a growing and a challenging industry across the globe and it is becoming more competitive on quality, pricing and most prominently safety in the contemporary world.

AirAsia focused on ensuring a competitive cost structure as its main business strategy. It has been able to achieve a cost per average seat kilometer (ASK) of 2.5 cents, half that of Malaysia Airlines and Ryanair and a third that of EasyJet. AirAsia can lease the B737-300s aircraft at a very competitive market rates due to the harsh global market conditions for the second-hand aircrafts because of the September 11th event in 2001.

To be able to adjust with stiff competition that keep increasing in the airlines market, airlines industries tend to come up with different approaches and strategies to be more competitive. Air Asia, like any other airlines adopt strategic approach to marketing and expand their market reach and give better and satisfying service delivery to their target market. Being an industry that considers differentiation strategy, Air Asia continue to focus on their low cost approach, frequently flights approach, guest convenience, ticketless services, easy payment channels, internet booking, reservations and sales offices, and authorized travel