Common-Size financial statements of Southwest Airline for 2016 Item Income Statement ($ Million) Common-Size Income Statement (%) Total Revenue 20,425 100% Cost of Revenues 6,132 30.02% Gross Profit 14,293 69.697% Operating Expenses 10,533 51.6% Operating Income 3,760 18.4% Interest Expense 75 0.45% Provision for Taxes 1,303 6.4% Net Income 2,244 10.99% Vertical Analysis for Southwest Airline for 2016 Item Balance Sheet ($ Million) Percentage of Total Assets (%) Total Assets 23,286 100% Cash 3,305 14.2% Receivables 546 2.34% Inventories 337 1.44% Deferred income taxes 477 2.2% Property, plant and equipment 17,044 73.2% Liabilities 14,845 63.8% Stockholders' equity 8,441 36.3% Horizontal of Southwest Airline Income Statement ($ Million)
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Southwest Airlines was ranked the seventh-largest U.S. airline, according to revenue passenger miles (RPM). Southwest posted a record annual profit for the 6th consecutive year and profit for the 25th year straight. To continue future company domination in the low-fare market, Southwest strategies to grow the list of destination cities, increase services to those towns already being covered and increase the number of actual aircraft. Financial managers and investors used various ratios and factors to analyze and forecast the profitability and efficiency of any businesses. As one type of business, Southwest Airlines has no exceptions.
American Airlines started out as the Aviation Corporation (AVCO) in 1929 when Sherman Fairchild formed it as a subsidiary of his Fairchild Aviation Corporation. The following year, it purchased about 85 separate airlines and united and synched their routes, creating American Airlines. But, in 1934, regulations forced the separation of the airline from its airplane manufacturer parent because of many concerns. This was mainly made possible because the US mail heavily subsidized the airlines in those days, which rendered it a great influence and very powerful in the industry. But starting in 1936, thanks to its purchase and use of the highly successful DC-3 passenger airliner, American Airlines became profitable again because of its passenger
American Airlines, being the world's largest airline, has truly revolutionized their company as it relates to fleet, service, employment, destinations and revenue. This company has made history in the aviation by being a part of the building process for LaGuardia Airport, and being the first airline to offer electronic ticketing. While there are many other contributions to the aviation sector, American has continued to revolutionize this field. The company continues to grow and progress with the addition to rival airlines like Delta, Southwest, and United Airlines. Despite bad financial standings in the past, American still maintains its name and service.
Spirit airlines can increase their accounts receivable turnover by including their amenities in the customers’ price.
Delta has strong experienced management team. “I’d rate them right at the top,” says analyst Michael Derchin of CRT Capital Group. During the last 4 years, Delta has been proactive with labor unions by increasing profit sharing and minimizing the unionized labours, deleveraged the balance sheet by reducing significantly its debts, accomplished bought back shares programs, and raised dividends every year, increased its share price by double (Helman, 2015) Delta won to become Corporate traveler’s favorite airline by voting it as No. 1 in five consecutive years in the Business Travel News (BTN) Annual Airline Survey.
Executive Summary JetBlue Airways is a company that applies innovative technologies to offer high quality travel services at a lower cost (Shrivastava, 2012). A SWOT analysis of JetBlue airlines shows that despite the numerous opportunities and strengths it has, it is exposed to threats and weaknesses that pose challenges in its operations. The threats include issues like strong competition from other airlines and the volatility of the fuel prices. JetBlue Airlines is relatively new to the market when compared to its major competitors such as the Southwest and Delta Airlines. Most of its strategies have worked to its benefit.
Southwest Airlines is characterized
Those things are as follows: Strengths, Weakness, Operations, Financial, Marketing, and Human Resources. First the strengths of Southwest Airlines are the ability to make offers to a lesser cost prices, exceptional clientele service. Second are the weaknesses which show that the airline company have considerable dependence on the passenger earnings. Third is the operational factors of the airline which showcases that southwest uses and operates only one type of aircraft carrier called the Boeing 737 airplane.
Southwest Airlines prides themselves off their customer service. Their first showing of this is their boarding process. Their boarding process is quite simple and easily comprehended by the customers. Customers’ tickets have a letter (A, B, and C) and a number (1-60). The letter and the number identify your group and line position.
Southwest. Ultimately the goal is that Delta gets viewed along with other high-quality industrial companies like rail companies, and even to a certain extent the aircraft manufacturers. But it's just hard to make that today, given the multiple disparity and the volatility of the stock, it's hard to say that it's a real peer even though if you line them up on an ROIC standpoint and performance over the past couple years they look very similar. Limit it to Alaska and Southwest." Q12a - OE_PreferredInvestment Thinking about Delta along with its peers, which company is your preferred investment?
This is another area that airline companies focus on as ticket sales are directly related to their operating income and affect customer satisfaction. Delta Airlines is proving to show that they have incorporated these areas and that is why in most recent years have seen record operating
Ramada’s problem was first discovered when their management found out about D. K Shifflet’s latest survey about customer satisfaction in the hospitality industry, which it then shows that mid-tier hotels continuing to go downward. Later on they continued on their research and decided to hire a third party to find out more about the survey and also to observe their own company’s system. It results in a management dilemma, Ramada needs to prevent themselves from falling. Then it raises some questions on how can their management improve their performance to achieve the level of customer satisfaction they desire. They then found out three main concerns that they need to put more effort to.
Will start with application of Michael Porter’s generic strategies to ‘Affordable sky’ (a new, no Frills airline) which is about to enter the U.S. market. Second we will try to work as a consultant for Affordable Sky’ airline, and based on the above excerpts about the airline industry, will try to choose the suitable entry strategy for this new company to adopt and we will try to explain why, finally we will discuss which diversification strategies or alternatives we may suggest and why? Also, explaining why we would advise Affordable Sky against having a joint venture with another established airline company. The question headed with this statement: ‘Recently, the growth and profitability of commercial air carriers in the USA has been impacted by many external factors. This industry saw four major players (United, US Airways, Delta, and Northwest) file for bankruptcy protection in the last decade or so.
