Airbus Commercial Case Study

In 2006, it took 55% of global commercial aircraft orders for the first time since 2000. The largest exporter in the United States, Boeing’s stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. (Company Website). AIRBUS VS BOEING COMPETITION Airbus is benefiting from a broad-based customer focus as well as highly innovative designs. Its emphasis on environmental issues for its aircraft is one of the most telling aspects of its internationalism.

Introduction Strengths Ryanair is known as Europe’s first low-cost, no-frills airline company. This alone is one of the company’s strongest selling points. It carries around 34 million passengers a year across 107 locations round Europe, totalling some 266 routes. The company has a leading market share on most UK and Ireland routes and around 43 percent of all Dublin-London and 45 percent of all other Dublin passenger loads. The ‘no-frills’ strategy resulted in the increase of customers and expansion of their operations, wherein the staff increased from an initial 57 to an amazing 3,400 staff and almost 37 million passengers.

Airbus has a global network of more than 200 customers, over 1,500 suppliers and around 80,000 annual expense reports. Airbus is focusing global manufacture of the commercial aircraft. Over 40 years of developing technological innovation of its product... ... middle of paper ... ....V. (EADS) Vision 2020 was established in 2007 to provide growth, changes and new goals for Airbus that are to be achieved by 2020. The vision is to have a well-balanced EADS that will include profitability, focus on core, become a worldwide leader in air and space platforms and systems, mission-critical service provider, and become eco efficient. In order to obtain the above balanced revenues must be available and this can happen when EADS reduces dependence on Airbus and increases revenue streams from non-Airbus divisions.

The total revenues increased by 20% from $5.9 billion to $7.1 billion over the last year. To be able to see the extent of Bombardier's operations it is best to look at each manufacturing group separately. Aerospace Aerospace is Bombardier's most important industry. It accounted for 47% of sales and 33% of profit in 1995 and makes Bombardier the fourth largest civilian airplane manufacturer in the world. Bombardier's customers are spread out over the globe.

The Boeing 247 was created and is considered to be the first modern airliner to fly around the world. Boeing operated the planes for commercial purposes. Boeing started u... ... middle of paper ... ...Geo) Again, the Boeing 747-8 wins for better price at $300 million when the Airbus A380 is priced at $318 million. For when it comes to the best at this category, Airbus offers the best wide range double decker aircraft in the market (Warwick, 2012) (aviatorjoe.net) (WILLIAMSON, 2013) (Frankfurt, Haria 2013) (James, 2013). In the last 10 years (2003–2012), Airbus has received 7,714 orders while delivering 4,503, and Boeing has received 7,312 orders while delivering 4,091 (Aircraft Compare 2013).

The UAE was ranked first regionally and 11th globally in terms of quality of air transport infrastructure. The technological factors in the UAE has transformed the country as a logistics hub, demonstrating the country’s long term commitment to trade, with investment in infrastructure to reach $130.34 billion by 2016 (MarketLine, 2013a, pp. 5). SWOT Analysis STRENGTHS Its fleet consist of 212 aircrafts, all of its passenger airlines also make services to Emirates SkyCargo, providing air freight services to six continents (Emirates, 2014). Emirates SkyCargo operates 12 freighters, two Boeing 747-400 ERF and 10 777Fs, while also having ordered 3 more freighters (BestCg.com, 2013).

Therefore, by the support of the government, Emirates attains as the largest and strongest airline in the Middle East (Emirates. 2014). Emirates holds a fleet of more than 200 aircraft covering over 140 destinations in more than 70 countries wor... ... middle of paper ... ...y to recover all this culture misunderstanding. Last but not least will be the language barriers to clinch deals with contracts with counterpart countries. Therefore, translators, understanding will greatly helps in making business work.

These destinations can also serve as the major hub for flight stoppages on longer routes in future. IndiGO: The first step towards the blue skies IndiGo was started in 2006 by Rakesh Gangwala and Rahul Bhatia of Inter Globe Enterprises. Inter Globe held 51.12% stake in the airline and 48% was held by Caelum Investments, a Virginia based firm, operated by Rakesh Gangwala. IndiGo placed a strong order of 100 Airbus A320-200 aircraft in June 2005 with pl... ... middle of paper ... ...dia Management -:  Rahul Bhatia, MD  Aditya Ghosh, President Systems – Growing and expanding and insuring it puts in place a more secure, safe and efficient landing system that also saves fuel and promotes greener environment, IndiGo Airlines steered the first-ever required navigation performance (RNP) approach. IndiGo has teamed up with Quo-vadis, a subsidiary of Airbus International, the apex body, Airports Authority of India (AAI), and the government division of Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to ensure safe landing facilities and practices at various airports.

(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) History Northwest Airlines began service on October 1, 1926, flying mail between Minneapolis / St. Paul and Chicago.

The most familiar asset to the company is the military and commercial airline support services they provide. Boeing has customers in more than 90 countries around the world and is one of the largest U.S. exporters in terms of sales. Boeing has shown its ability to innovate over again, with its long tradition of aerospace leadership it continues to expand their product line and services to meet customer needs. Through innovation Boeing has created new and more efficient airplanes; they’ve integrated military platforms, and created advance technology solutions to benefit businesses. The partnership between Boeing and commercial airplanes and integrated defense systems has made Boeing Capital Corporation a global provider of financing solution... ... middle of paper ... ...proval, by doing this Boeing is required to have an open corporate policy which make attain creditability.