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    Overview and Background (History) Southwest Airlines Co. was founded by Rollin W. King and Herbert D. Kelleher on March 15, 1967 and is based in Dallas, Texas. The company is a passenger airline company operating Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways and offering scheduled air transportation services in the US as well as near-international territories.

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    Strategic Discussion on U.S Airline Industry Discussion Question 1: Use the model of the general environment (Chapter 2, Table 2.1) to evaluate the opportunities and threats facing the U.S. airline industry and Southwest Airlines in particular. What are the key opportunities and threats? The health of the overall U.S airline industry is still tenuous in-spite of the passenger traffic volumes returning to pre-9/11 levels. A survey estimated that from 2001 through 2003, the US airline industry

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    Opportunities and Threats facing the U.S Airline Industry The health of the overall U.S airline industry is still tenuous in-spite of the passenger traffic volumes returning to pre-9/11 levels. A survey estimated that from 2001 through 2003, the US airline industry reported to have lost $23.2 billion dollars, compounded by an additional $1.6 billion in the first quarter of 2004. This $24.8 billion shortfall exceeds the total profits earned over the entire six-year period 1995-2000 Drastic

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    Environmental Analysis 1 Environmental Analysis 12 Environmental Analysis: Southwest Airlines Environmental Analysis: Southwest Airline INTRODUCTION Southwest Airlines Co. began its operations in 1971 and has been serving the industry for the past 43 years now (Southwest Airlines, n.d.). It is the major domestic airline, and ranked number one in 2014 by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (United States Department of Transportation, 2014). Back in 1971 the airline began its services

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    Siskins, 2004).Moreover Southwest Airlines is a success story of point to point low cost carrier of United States covering 97 destinations in 42 states with a fleet of 550 Boeing 737 aircrafts and operating 3200 daily flights. Acquisition of AirTran Airways in the year 2011 was also a landmark achievement for the airline. However Southwest Airlines does not offer the traditional services of food on board and special lounges on the airports, none the less it is well placed in the aviation industry

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    Labor Relations: Southwest's Current Issues

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    Southwest’s long standing reputation as an employer who makes their employees and customers happy, there have been storms brewing in the company’s labor relations and customer relations sector. As was mentioned before, Southwest recently acquired AirTran Airways and revealed plans to take its already successful domestic business international with flights to Mexico and the Caribbean (Martin, 2014). This organizational restructuring is causing Southwest to have what Time Magazine’s Brad Tuttle calls an

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    Southwest Airlines’ Strategic Management Chungsun Park Nonhanhla Nene Mohit Khatri Junbai Ma HOS 407 – Strategic Management Dr. Richard L. Valente 12/12/2011 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals 4 Organizational Structure 5 Management Process and Roles 6 Porter’s Five Forces 6 Threat of New Entrants 6 Threat of Substitute Products 8 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 9 Bargaining Power of Buyers 10 Rivalry 11 The Roots of Competitive

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    Case Study – Southwest Airlines 2011 By Dawn Baumann Advanced Marketing Professor Nicole Dillett September 29, 2014 As I develop in mind, body, and spirit, I pledge on my honor that I have not given, received, witnessed nor have knowledge of unauthorized aid on this or any paper. Dawn Baumann Background Summary: Southwest airlines was founded in Texas in 1971 as a small, regional intra-state carrier. They chose to service the Golden Triangle of

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    Southwest Five Generic Strategies The five universal competitive plans include overall low-cost provider strategy, broad differentiation strategy, focused low-cost strategy, focused differentiation strategy and best cost provider strategy (Bethel, 2017). Southwest Airlines popular competitive strategy is keeping customers happy by being low cost, employee driven, future-minded, and differentiated. The overall low-cost provider strategy that is being used at Southwest is a low-cost airline that

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    Missy Cummings, naval and officer and military pilot (1988-1999), and was one of the first women in the U.S. Navy's fighter pilots. In “America, Regulated Drones Now Or Get Left Behind”, Missy Cummings claims that Americans regulators must create drone policies due to the fact that “registered drone operators in the U.S. now outnumber registered manned aircraft” (Cummings 1). Cummings supports her claim that drones are a big business by stating “UAV market set to jump from $5.2 Billion (2013) to

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