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    government to privatize their airports. In basic terms Privatisation is essentially the shift of assets from the public or government owned sector to the private sector, an important point to note is that privatisation doesn’t always refer to ownership, but can also refer only to the management of an organisation. The advantages of privatisation include greater efficiency and fewer limitations involved in government spending allowances. Up until the 1990’s privatisation of airports was mainly within the

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    Introduction In this business report, the management problem and research needs of the client Virgin Australia will be presented, as well as research about the company and its industry in order to proceed with market research in solving the management problem. Virgin Australia has many sources of information to be consulted, and they have no limitations on the type of research methods used. The budget for this project is approximately $60,000, and this project is to be completed by 1 July 2016.

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    The investigators of this study for this article are: Bosko Rowland, Falicity Allen, and John Toumbourou. The aim of the these three authors study was to highlight the factors and impacts that alcohol plays in Australian sports. Furthermore, the aim of the authors study was to also explain to the audience the Good Sports program that was designed to reduce the amount of harmful alcohol consumed in Australian community sports clubs. The method of this study was indiscriminate but was based off different

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    Tuesday November the 4th marked another Melbourne Cup, promising a day filled with champagne, crowds and colour. 1000s of spectators, staff and jockeys had lined up in the hope of cashing in on some success. Unfortunately this was not the case for the owners of Admire Rakti or Araldo, who tragically died after the race. This sudden and shocking news has re-ignited the issue of whether horse racing should be banned in Australia. Ironically this issue is driven on both sides by the same impulse: the

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    every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one species. we are now facing the 6th mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would call him a virus. MELBOURNE CUP Definition: The Melbourne Cup is one of Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse

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    General aviation (GA) could be defined as aviation pertaining to non-military as well as scheduled military aircrafts. General aviation within the United States includes over 5000 public airports, generates over $200 billion dollars in revenue and supports close to a million jobs. For the year 2014, pilots have logged over 23 million hours of flight, two-thirds were primarily for the purpose of business. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports that the fleet of aircrafts in the GA sector

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    goes about its business. It has brought about a boom in low-cost carriers, which has made travelling by air cheaper for the masses. Services offered by airlines and airports are also of higher standards to make people want to travel by air. The economic downturn has seen a significant drop of investments in the aviation market. Airport ground handlers and airplane part manufacturers have also had to retrench their workers in order to counterbalance the poor market. The amount of air traffic is likely

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    where capacity is maximized in some airports and congestion increases causing significant delay. Demand will continue to rise over the next few decades and these airlines must rely on regulators and policy makers to upgrade the very necessary infrastructure and technology. Southwest’s strategy is to remain a point to point carrier instead of the traditional hub and spoke carrier, satisfying their customer demand with lower congestion at underutilized airports with more flights. However Southwest

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    Facing your fears The wheels of my almost falling apart luggage where obnoxiously squeaking as I paced down the busy and rather lengthy airport hallway. Intimidated by frequent stares and unsettled by the lingering feeling of uncertainty, I tried my best to not attract any more attention than I already was. My scrawny arms struggled to lift my grey worn out bag, and I avoided eye contact at all expenses to not feel the rapidly flourishing feeling of embarrassment and regret sitting at the pit of

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    September 19, 2008 at 11:53 pm eastern standard daylight time, a chartered Bombardier Learjet Model 60, N999LJ, owned by Inter Travel and Services, Inc., and operated by Global Exec Aviation, overran runway 11 during a RTO at Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Columbia, South Carolina. The captain, first officer and two other passengers were killed. The cockpit voice recorder caught multiple loud rumbling sounds, which was later concluded in the NTSB report to be tires blowing out. The tires were sequential

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