Porter Porter is a regional airline that was founded in February of 2006. Porter is known for their business class service and always providing exceptional customer service, and complementary snacks and drinks that make the passengers feel like the truly get a lot for their money. Porter started out with only flying to Canadas major cities and now flies to over twenty- four destinations and has over twenty- six planes in their fleet. The reasons I want to work for porter is I like that fact that they are a smaller airline where you can build a closer connection with your fellow crew members.
Questions for the interviewer – Porter airlines
- What type of professional development exists within this company
- In your opinion what differs
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WestJet was founded in February 1996 and is currently the second largest carrier behind Air Canada. WestJet currently has a fleet of 118 and flies to over 91 destinations. They are known for their exceptional customer service and in addition helping those in need with the charity WestJet Christmas miracles. There are many reasons why I would love to work for WestJet, one being WestJet is known for their relaxed friendly atmosphere, and going above and beyond to serve the passengers.
Questions for the interviewer – westjet
- What gets you excited about the company’s future?
- I’ve read about the exciting future of the company, but can you tell me more about the new products or plans for growth?
- In your opinion what is the common career path for a flight attendant in this company?
- For the time you’ve been working for the company, since then how has it developed in it successes?
- What are you looking for in the ideal candidate?
Skills and abilities I bring to the job- westjet
- Safety conscious
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Air Canada flies to over 190 destinations. It has been a sought out company to work for because of its innovative ways to improve flight transportation and customer service. The reason why I would enjoy working for such a company is the amazing opportunity to interact with people from across the globe and history and culture filled destinations that are flown to.
Question for the interviewer- Air Canada
- If I was extended the job offer, how soon would you like me to start?
- In your opinion who would you consider your top competitor and why?
- What are the biggest challenges facing the company right now?
- What is the turnover of graduates following initial training with this company?
- What skills and experiences would make an ideal candidate?
Skills and abilities I bring to the job- Air Canada
- Time management
- Safety conscious attitude
- Cultural awareness
- Teamwork
- Adaptability
- Communication
Canadian based airline may find it hard to find strong support from US and International customers
This report was made up for the purposes for pursuing our client and make him understand why he should invest in our company. This report will contain a swat analysis, strengths and weakness, vision statement, mission statement. These are going to a sure that we has a company aren’t only advertising our strengths but we will also show our weakness and things that need to be improved. The history of WestJet and the current points will also be shown, from when WestJet was founded and too, what’s WestJet’s main focus now will be shown in this analysis for our client. Another thing west jet wants to represent is all of the financial resources and the finical information for our client and of course a company overview will be provided has well.
“Customer care” is what WestJet Airlines says in their ads. WestJet entire corporate culture has been built around caring for their customers, by providing a great
Air Canada has been in the business of air transport for an extended period of time. Due to the experience and the exposure of the carrier in the field, it has made a commendable progress through many strategies as well as customer proximity. One of the approaches taken by the airline involves the identification as well as an implementation of cost reduction initiatives in a bid to increase revenue from its operations (Air Canada, 2016). It is also attempting to connect with the existing carriers across the world to connect the current customers to the international world. This approach has been adopted to increase its competitive advantage over other existing airlines.
Westjet came into the air travel business in 1996, offering fares up to 50% cheaper than there competition. They strived for an excellent relationship between the employee and the employer by creating an ecstatic, friendly work environment. Westjet is one of the most successful airlines as it did start out with the most start up capital any airline has ever experienced, as well as keeping their debt to a minimum. With such commercial success, Westjet was questioned with their actions towards Air Canada as one of the founders employed a travel agent to find out certain information about Air Canada which gave them a competitive advantage so they knew exactly what price would be a noticeable difference, which would attract
• WestJet views its employees as its most valuable asset. Therefore, it aims to ensure that employees’ work experience is fun, challenging and rewarding. Encourages employees to interact positively with customers to try to earn repeat customers.
In order to assess the corporate governance performance in WestJet over the long term, we are looking into three different fundamental corporate governance issues:
WestJet became one of significant air transportation companies since its birth in 1996.After conquering all Canadian destination, WestJet have chance to compete in the international scene. Today it has not that many destinations outside of North America,
Air Canada mission is simple and straightforward which is the connect Canada with the world. Naturally focusing on improving their financial performance in order to increase productivity and its cost structure. To minimize fuel emission and other greenhouse gases based on Air Canada’s environmental concern. Their vision consists in building loyalty through quality service and innovation.
WestJet develop their IT operation early and force them get the lead in the aviation businesses. However, as the global economic and the change of people’s demand, the strategic plan of WestJet need to be change to follow the change of the world. Compare with other aviation business, the IT structure of WestJet is small and keeps running on their pervious operation before Smith join into the organization. There are some risks coming out if WestJet continue these IT operations.
WestJet Airlines is a Calgary-based discount airline founded in 1996 by Clive Beddoe, Don Bell, Mark Hill and Tim Morgan. WestJet Airline began its business with only three aircrafts. The company is now “Canada’s leading high-value, low-fare airline.” WestJet established their company based on two main factors; low-cost structure and exceptional customer service. The airline’s founders believe that in order to be able to offer fares that are 50% lower than the average for industry you need to keep your operational costs low. The way that WestJet has managed to maintain its low costs was through an exceptional organizational culture which gives authority and acknowledges employees through the decision process. “It is the culture that
WestJet is also facing a strategic problem, the longer term impact that growth is having on WestJet’s culture. WestJet’s success and competitive advantage have been a direct result
Air Canada’s early strategy was to grow the business, with minimal concern about their staff members and customers. Without any benefits or rewards their staff felt underappreciated. Their customers felt as though their feedback wasn’t being heard but in the eyes of Air Canada as long as their business was expanding, they were satisfied.
Westjet Airlines has achieved considerable success in the past few years, winning estimable rewards related to its service, gaining loyal customers and, of course, increasing market shares. It devotes to a “high-value, low-fare airline” which provides humanized services to customers. Another pride of Westjet is its IT, which designs all systems in-house and is operated based on the business demands.
The major strength of this assessment is that Cheryl was able to identify the issues that are key for WestJet to maximize and align IT with the business strategy as well as to add value to the company. Furthermore, Cheryl has started to act and take wise decisions without letting herself to feel overwhelm by the situation or by other person’s decision so she can have a clear picture of the business as well as the impact of its actions. A clear example of this situation was her decision to stop the PMO recommended by IBM. Also, she has focus on managing and improving current IT processes performances, adding tangible value to the organization Additionally, the actions proposed by Cheryl have the goal to update and upgrade IT according to the challenges of the industry in order to take WestJet into a higher level, moving people out of their comfort zone so they can increase their contribution to the company’s strategy. Besides, she found out that the IT group has excellent technical