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Deviance has No Boundary Kha’Lin Wilson-Meeks Wright State University Terrorism has been a tactic used by humans since the beginning of time. The willingness and desire to use violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political change has only increased as time progressed. International Terrorist groups have evolved in tactics, inhumanity, and deviance, one of the up and coming groups that have carried out alike threats and attacks is the Somali terrorist organization Al Shabaab.

PROFESSIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ORGANIZATION V. REAGAN: THE STRIKE THAT HELPED SHAPE U. S. LABOR RELATIONS Thirty one years ago, when President Ronald Reagan threatened to fire approximately 13,000 air traffic controllers unless they called off an illegal strike, the president not only transformed his presidency, but also shaped the labor relations in the United States. The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike of August 3. 1981 was a remarkable day in the

Instructor Case: Southwest Airlines in 2010 Dr. Deb Sircar University of Greenwich Business School http://create.mcgraw-hill.com Copyright 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher

Strategic Analysis of Jet Blue Airlines Executive Summary JetBlue is a company built on a focus strategy of low-priced, no-hassle ticketing and refreshingly efficient customer service. The company began with the goal to eliminate many of the complexities and asininities of commercial air travel and set a new standard for customer service. Thus far the company has flown beyond these goals and everyone's expectations while returning a handsome profit to whomever chooses to invest in this airline

all the customers they wanted, from the near downtown airport, instead of driving 15 miles for the new airport, pay for expensive parking and having to arrive one hour earlier. However the other airlines did not like it, like American Airlines and Braniff International. They would have to pay higher fees for use of the new airport and Southwest Airline did not. The other great battle

Case #6-0031 Enhancing Service at Southwest Airlines Gary Kelly clicked the “DING” icon and smiled as the laptop screen filled with the familiar Southwest Airlines website. “More peanuts?” the flight attendant poked him with a smile. Kelly looked up and pointed to his screen. “The internet at 30,000 feet—that goes great with peanuts!” Scarcely five years at the helm of Southwest Air, Kelly was navigating the highflying airline through the biggest crisis in its 38 years of service. By focusing on

Holistic Management Part One: British Airways and Further International Expansion of their Luxury Brand Company Profile and Problem British Airways is one of the airline brands in the world and the company has been operating (under different names and forms of ownership) since 1919 (British Airways, 2012). In its earliest incarnation, the airline was an international carrier which began by offering service from London to Paris. Operations changed over the years as the company was nationalized

Introduction For years the commercial aircraft industry has been an American success story. Until 1980, U.S. manufacturers held a virtual monopoly. Despite the rise of the European-based Airbus Industrie, this persisted through the mid-1990s, when two U.S. firms, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, accounted for over two-thirds of world market share. In late 1996, many analysts thought that U.S. dominance in this industry would be further strengthened when Boeing announced a decision to acquire Mc-Donnell

tC op On June 18, 1971, Southwest Airlines, headquartered at Love Field in Dallas, began flying with three Boeing 737 aircraft serving the Texas cities of Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Southwest’s competition was Texas International and Braniff, and, to a lesser extent, Continental. Continental used every political and regulatory means to ensure that Southwest would not get off the ground, including keeping Southwest out of the recently built Dallas-Fort Worth airport and waging a four-year

Antonio. Rolling King and Herb Kelleher started their airline in March 15, 1967 and named it air Southwest. Unfortunately for them, the airliner could fly in that time due to a joint lawsuit. The lawsuit was done by 5 big airliners of that time, Braniff, Aloha Airlines, United Airlines, Trans-Texas, and Continental Airlines. After three years of legal fight, the lawsuit was lifted and the airliner was