Research was conducted to understand passengers’ views and attitudes towards Low-Cost Carriers and Full-Service airlines. The research was focused on a group of passengers with one crowd using a Low-Cost Carrier and the other using a Full-service airline. The airlines that will be used in the research are Aer Lingus and Ryanair running in a fully developed European market, and Malaysia Airlines and Air Asia currently functioning on a recent developing domestic market in Asia. After conducting the survey, results show that the younger people are more likely to use Low-Cost service carriers with Ryanair accounting for 24% and Air Asia with 47% who all belong in the age group of under 25 years. 87% of the age group were travelling to visit friends and family and for education purposes of whom these trips were sponsored by their parents. It is apparent in these results that age is a factor in which types of aircraft to use for travelling. Adult passengers favour Full-service carriers because of the extra services they offer unlike Low-Cost carriers. Travelling in a group is also taken into consideration for preferred choice of carriers. As a result, leisure passengers who travels in groups tend to use Low-Service carriers compared to Businessmen who usually travel in alone tend to use Full-Service airlines. Findings show that Ryanair holds 40% of passengers travelling in groups and Air Asia with 31%. In terms of booking flights, 78% of Ryanair’s passengers prefer to use the website compared to Aer Lingus’ passengers with 16% who prefer booking their trips through travel agencies. Additionally, 93% of Ryanair’s passengers who were surveyed booked their tickets online indicating that Ryanair is the fifth most searched website worldwide...
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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.
of price versus service in the airline industry as a whole, as well as, the
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Spirit addresses “price” by attempting to get the lowest possible fair for their potential customers. They have instituted their “unbundling” strategy that essentially removes all the conveniences that other airlines afford. Fees for checked bags, fees for flight changes, and no complementary in-flight beverages are just a few of the cost-trimming techniques employed. This strategy allows Spirit to come up with impossibly low fares. It also conforms to customers who just want to get from point A to point B without paying extra for services they don’t use. This strategy, coupled with an in-your-face “promotion” ploy, has made Spirit Airlines “the most profitable airline in the U.S.” (Nicas, 2012).
The results of airline deregulation speak for themselves. Since the government got out of the airline business, not only has there been a drop in prices and an increase in routes, there has also been a remarkable increase in airline service and safety. Airline deregulation should be seen as the crowning jewel of a federal de-regulatory emphasis. Prices are down: Airline ticket prices have fallen 40% since 1978. Flights are up: The number of annual departures is up from 5 million in 1978 to 8.2 million in 1997. Flights are safer: Before deregulation, there was one fatal accident per 830,000 flights, now the rate is one per 1.4 million flights. So what's the problem?
In order to measure the impact of United's price increase, we would need the price elasticity of the demand. The main problem is that there is no agreement as to whether, generally speaking, air transportation is or is not relatively price elastic. There is ample evidence that the introduction of deeply discounted fares by the low cost carriers can be very price elastic, although, each type of traveler has its own price characteristics.
EasyJet’s provision of low cost flights and it basis of “the earlier you book the ticket, the less you pay“ gives it opportunity to target its customers. EasyJet also provides a number of aircrafts in various airports thus easily accessibility of their services; this acts as it drivers in the market control and competitive advantage. It also has the advantage of providing other services such as car hiring, internet services and restaurants (Saleem, 2010). The ‘Europe by easy jet’ established a resounding brand positioning that is effective across all the main markets and enhanced visits to easyJet.com. EasyJet targets the consumers through various channels that help them to reduce marketing cost per sales. In 2001, EasyJet launched ‘easy Jet mobile app” which was downloaded by over six million people which accounted for 5% of overall sales. Mobile boarding cards are available through the app and make it easy for cust...
2.Price: A price must be set to add value to the consumer but also add revenue to the airline. Cost is considered the most volatile areas in the airline industry today; deregulation has forced pricing to become the major competitive variable. Like any industry supply and demand control the pricing elements of the ai...
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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).
For the introduction, brief information regarding my purchase and the travel and tourism industry is presented. It was then followed by the explanation of the 2 chosen theories from two different chapters.
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Within the airline industry currently the airlines can be divided into low cost airlines and full service airlines. The low cost airlines targets customers that are seeking no frills connectivity between cities at low ticket prices. The full service airlines provide several add-ons like free meals, on plane entertainment, and communication facilities. The target market for full service airlines are customers who are willing to spend extra for the services that the airlines provides.