Qantas Ailines And The Aviation Development Of Australia

Qantas Airways is the major airline carrier in Australia and is the leading airline not just in Australia but the whole world. Qantas is a major airline known all around the world that delivers to their customers and wants to constantly improve their performance. Qantas has been a major developer in the airline business since they were founded in 1920. They have had some major success within the business for over ninety years, however, over the past ten years they have experienced some major challenges which have put the business and leadership of CEO Allan Joyce into question. This report outlines the challenges they have faced in they have faced in the post maturity stage in the business life cycle which include the 2011 Qantas Industrial Disputes and the 2013/14 Qantas loss of profit, how they have been able to overcome those challenges and influences, both internal and external.

This report is a financial analysis of Qantas Airways Australian covering the last two complete financial years 2015 to 2016. The analysis will be conducted using a series of financial ratios drawn from the main categories of liquidity, profitability, and capital structure and market performance. The report will highlight what the ratios indicate in the context of the company’s operations. The report will endeavour to provide an overall assessment of the company’s performance for the most recent period and discussion about which aspect of the company’s financials has demonstrated the most improvement. The report recommendations will be supported by comparisons

This shows that Qantas has been depending on socially unethical methods to gain maximum profit. Furthermore, the group was being fined of more than A$160 millions for conspiring with other airlines to increase the price of freight through imposing of fuel and security charges between 2006 and 2000. (Ironside 2014). This is, perhaps the reason why Qantas is striving hard to improve their technical services in hope to attract customers with new technology and hopefully to improve the damaged

The main focus of this report is to identify the legal classification, the characteristics, the life cycle stage of Qantas and one internal and external stakeholder that is affected by the activates of Qantas. The legal classification describes that Qantas is a public company and has changed its legal classification in the growth and maturity stages of the business life cycle. The characteristics of Qantas talks about the company's industrial classification and sector classification. The business life cycle is explained and gives reason why Qantas is in the renewal stage of post maturity. There is also description of one internal and external

1) Qantas Airways Limited is the national airline of Australia, it is also the largest airline in Australia. The Qantas Group’s principal business is providing domestic and international air transport services for passengers. Additionally, Qantas owns several subsidiary companies such as Jetstar and QantasLink that also operates flights to domestic and international locations, and Q Catering, a premium full service flight caterer.

Customer service is a valuable influence on quality. Qantas delivers the expectations of customers by representing civil and accommodating staff members. Qantas has implemented a series of operational strategies to enhance the speed of their service. These vary from booking flights online, online check in, check in kiosks and Q Bag Tags. Dependability at Qantas is based on the consistency of on-time departures and arrivals. Flexibility is relevant to Qantas’ responses to the changes in market demand. Flexibility is demonstrated through Jetstar’s variable fare. Qantas offers customisation through its participation in the Oneworld Alliance, where it can provide its services to over 680 destinations in 134 countries. Qantas has worked on developing less costly and more efficient opportunities for its consumers by launching new discount airlines: Jetstar and Jetstar

Qantas is Australia’s largest domestic and international airline. Although Qantas is primarily a passenger airline, air freight is also an integral part of its core business. Other Qantas operations include catering, tourism and E-commerce devoted to transport and travel. In order to have an effective business and operations process, a company, like Qantas must be aware of the influences that can affect it. By being aware of the influences it enables the business to make decision and choices that can get the most out of each influence, by doing this it can assist the business in its endeavours for success.

Another strategy that Qantas has used to respond to globalisation is through product differentiation. Qantas maintained it’s competitive advantage by providing a service which was unique and different to those of it’s competitor. Qantas was known for having ‘the best safety record of any airline in the world’. The airline was also ‘true-blue’ Australian and was Australian owned. This made the business different and attracted customers towards Qantas giving it a competitive edge over it’s foreign competition. Following the deregulation of Qantas, the business has started to lose sight of what it really was. The business has recently decided to implement another

Qantas’ main weaknesses come from the high risk nature of airlines (possibility of crashes and large scale incidents), the complexity of the aircraft they buy which could lead to costs of re-training pilots to fly that particular aircraft and may lead to higher labour and the recent string of incidents have undoubtedly hindered Qantas’ image. One of the most recent incidents occurred while a reasonably new Qantas A380 was flying from Singapore to Sydney when it experienced engine and hydraulic problems forcing it to hastily turn back and make an emergency landing in Singapore. This

long-term goal is to ensure that the Qantas business - domestic and international combined - exceeds the cost

Qantas has three major problems. 1.) Fuel efficiency, 2.) Lack of communication between employers and employees, 3.) Competition in the corporate customer market (Ferguson

This section of the report discusses the historical behavior of Qantas share price over the past five years. On the graph, the Y axis indicates the share price in points and the Y axis represents the period of time in years.

Reviewing the Qantas Board charter against ASX (2014) recommendations 1.4, 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1 the constitution is very clear particularly around the independence of the board and the composition of the role of Chairman and CEO as well as the committees under the board’s guidance. The board has structured itself to meet the requirements of the ASX (2014), in addition

Flight Centre describes itself as a global discount flight specialist. Taking into consideration the relative size of the Australian and international operations as well as the availability of information on global environment and competitive factors, for this analysis, it is more appropriate to consider the Flight Centre’s industry environment as “The Australian international and domestic airline

These main business objectives help the airline to focus on deliver quality services of the customers. Qantas main business is passengers transports and it is the world’s second oldest airlines. Qantas group operates approx 5600 flights in a weak in 59 cities of regional areas. Internationally, the group operates around 970 flights (Qantas-630 and Jetstar-340) in 44 counties 182 destinations. Moreover, through operations the group focused on five key elements that are right aircraft or right