The History of Air North When examining the major impact of an airline, one should take into account the airline’s history. Air North -the Yukon’s airline has been around for 36 years and dates back to the 1970’s. Air North is a regional based carrier that provides service within the Yukon (the westernmost and smallest of Canada’s three federal territories) between the Yukon and British Columbia, Alberta, Northwest Territories and Alaska (Fly Air North, 2013). These services also include scheduled passenger service, charter services for passenger and/or cargo and cargo and ground handling services (Fly Air North, 2013). The charter passenger service is provided throughout Canada and the United States. The Yukon’s airline is headquartered in Whitehorse, Yukon. It is the largest airline in the Yukon and is one of only five Canadian carriers that provide a year round scheduled domestic air service with jet equipment (Fly Air North, 2013). The airline also has over two hundred full-time and part-time employees in the Yukon and also operates a base in Vancouver, which employs over sixty people. Air North is one of the largest private sector employers in the Yukon (Fly Air North, 2013). Interestingly enough, is that one of fifteen Yukoners hold an equity or employment stake in Air North, Yukon’s Airline (Fly Air North, 2013). Joseph Sparling (presently the owner) and Thomas Wood founded the airline on February 1, 1977(Fly Air North, 2013). Surprisingly, Air North first operated a charter service primarily in support of the mining industry (Fly Air North, 2013). Initially, Air North began operations with one Cessna 206, then slowly increased their aircraft to Cessnas 150, 172, 185, 206, and 237,the Dehavilland Beaver, Otter, and Ca... ... middle of paper ... ...passengers (Fly Air North. 2013). The airline also has one Boeing 737-400, which holds up to 156 passengers. The fleet also includes two Boeing 737-200,with a passenger capacity of 120 seats and five Hawker Siddeley 748 with a passenger capacity from 4 to 40 depending on cargo configuration (Fly Air North, 2013). One can say that Air North- The Yukon’s airline throughout its notable achievements will only continue to grown in the Yukon. References About Air North. (n.d.). Air North Experience. Retrieved November 15, 2013, from http://www.flyairnorth.com/Experience/AboutUs.aspx Corporate Information. (n.d.). Air North Experience. Retrieved November 15, 2013, from http://www.flyairnorth.com/Experience/Corporate.aspx Our Fleet. (n.d.). Air North Experience. Retrieved November 15, 2013, from http://www.flyairnorth.com/Experience/Fleet.aspx
The objective of this research report is to provide a thorough analysis of Alaska Airlines. In order to do this we chose to compare a similar company against them. The company in comparison is Spirit Airlines. Both companies compete in the same type of business through airline transportation. Many of their services include; security, safety, transportation of passengers as well as luggage, ensuring vehicle safety while in transit, concierge services, providing entertainment aboard plane, checking weather conditions prior to flight, and much more. All of the data gathered for this report was obtained from the company’s 10-k filings with the SEC.
"Problems" in the airline industry have not risen due to too much competition within the industry. To the contrary, Washington regulators should turn the industry loose in any more ways that it can. Lowering restrictions to enter the market place, emphasizing private ownership of aviation matters, and encouraging open and free competition within the scope of anti-trust law should be the goals of the Clinton Administration. Instead of heading towards re-regulation, Washington should get out of the airline business for good.
After a while, they have realized that the airline has more capacity to carry passengers. So they hired a flight attendant to help passengers and created an air carrier for passengers transport. On 1930, UATC created an airline based in Chicago and called it National Air Transport Inc., which is a bigger airline with a larger fleet. After a while, UATC needed a company to organize its operations and branches, so they created a company called United Air Lines Inc.
“Northwest Airlines is engaged principally in the commercial transportation of passengers and cargo.” (5) NWA is a complete full service air transportation carrier that is the forth-largest air carrier in the world that services over 750 destinations located in 120 different countries on 6 continents. They operate 2,600 flights daily around the world and operate more than 200 nonstop between the United States and Asia each week. Headquarters is based in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The main connecting hubs are located at Detroit, Minneapolis, Memphis, and Tokyo. Northwest employs 50,600 employees nationwide as of Dec. 31, 1998. (6) NWA also has 1269 Stockholders as of Feb. 26, 1999. (6) Northwest continues to improve cargo shipping by proudly dedicating 12 Boeing 747 aircraft and easily becoming one of the largest cargo airlines in the world. (4) Cargo is very profitable for Northwest because “Northwest has predicted cargo revenue will top the 900 million mark in 2000”. (3) The enormous fleet of aircraft contains 400 airplanes. (1) Northwest has subsidiaries wholly owned (Unless otherwise indicated by NWA) by Northwest Aircraft, Northwest Aerospace Training corps, MLT Inc, Express Airlines, and Express Airlines I. (6)
Air Canada was born as Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) on Gregorian calendar month ten, 1937. From initial takeoff to gift date, its history has been packed with high moments.
Planes have developed immensely through the years. The Wright brothers developed the first plane in 1903.
Airline and travel industry profitability has been strapped by a series of events starting with a recession in business travel after the dotcom bust, followed by 9/11, the SARS epidemic, the Iraq wars, rising aviation turbine fuel prices, and the challenge from low-cost carriers. (Narayan Pandit, 2005) The fallout from rising fuel prices has been so extreme that any efficiency gains that airlines attempted to make could not make up for structural problems where labor costs remained high and low cost competition had continued to drive down yields or average fares at leading hub airports. In the last decade, US airlines alone had a yearly average of net losses of $9.1 billion (Coombs, 2011).
Jim had a very long career in the airplane industry. Throughout the 35 years that he worked for
Growing globally- Air Canada have the opportunity to grow globally by building their network with different countries and this relationship should be long lasting for more growth.
Southwest Airlines strategy of focusing on short haul passenger and providing rates as low as one third of their competitors, they have seen tremendous growth in the last decade. Market share for top city pairs on Southwest's schedule has reached 80% to 85%. Maintaining the largest fleet of 737's in the world and utilizing point-to-point versus the hub-and-spoke method of connection philosophy allowed Southwest to provide their service to more people at a lower cost. By putting the employee first, Southwest has found the key to success in the airline business. A happy worker is a more productive one as well as a better service provider. Southwest will continue to reserve their growth in the future by entering select markets only after careful market research.
Since its first grand opening in 1971, Southwest Airlines has shown steady growth, and now carries more passengers than any other low-cost carrier in the world (Wharton, 2010). To expand the business operations, Southwest Airlines took over AirTran in 2010 as a strategy to gain more market share for the Southeast region and international flights. However, the acquisition of AirTran brought upcoming challenges both internally and externally for Southwest Airlines. In this case analysis, the objectives are to focus on the change process post the merger with AirTran, and to evaluate alternatives to address the impacts of the merger. II.
I think that Norway has faced many challenges over the years, but the company has been trying to provide efficient products to improve customer convenience. I believe that the biggest challenges Norwegian Air face had to deal with the other competitors in the aviation business creating problems for Norwegian Airlines. In addition, this is because they are worried about other competition.
AirTran needs to remain profitable, both to survive but more importantly to keep investor interest and confidence.
In 1958, the United States government created the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) because of increasing safety concerns due to aviation accidents. However, they were not the first government organization that regulated air transportation. Even in 1958, the FAA shared certain responsibilities with other organizations. The responsibilities of the FAA at the time were limited when compared to their functions today, but it was an important step to effectively create a safe air transportation environment. To truly understand why the FAA was created, one must first understand the government’s role within the country’s transportation system.
Within the following decade need for air-transport made it very desirable. This is mainly due to World War I as many of the retired bombers were turned into commercial airliners. Soon after these flights commenced it became very apparent that in order to be making any financial again there needed to be more people on these aircraft as they could initially fit four passengers (Century of Flight 2008). British aviation company de Havilland built a ten passenger plane that seated it occupants in comfort called the de Havilland Dragon. 1930’s saw the expansion of the commercial airliner market (Century of Flight 2008). As the need for air-transport grew so did the supply, as for any demand. Ailing such as Lufthansa (Germany), United Airlines (United States), Imperial Airways (Britain) and KLM were just some of the airlines that started operating in this