Market analysis Target market WestJet airlines are targeting both gender (21-64) age. They also target middle and upper class Canadians who is working and who live beside the airport. Their competitive are Air Canada, American airlines, Alaska Air Group and Sunwing Airlines. SWOT Analysis Strengths: WestJet have the lowest airline fare. they also can match prices if people found a cheaper ticket.
CENTREPORT CANADA- Doorway to International Trade and Business Headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba Centreport Canada was established in 2009 to fulfill the demand of expanding international trade between different countries. “Centreport Canada is the North America’s only inland port and foreign trade zone which provides doorway to tri modal transportation methods like (rail, air, and road)”. Centreport Canada is built adjacent to James Armstrong Richardson Airport which is known as Canada’s prime cargo airport. “Centreport Canada gives direct access to companies to national and international road, rail and sea corridors”.
Furthermore, Executive Pod, International Business class, Economy class, North America economy class are some of the finest examples of services offered to different target market by Air Canada (Air Canada, 2018). Price: Air Canada assure the consumer 's that it 's price the best in the region as it states, "Stop searching far and wide. You’ll always find the lowest Air Canada prices right here on aircanada.com. Air Canada along the way has set itself as brand that is focused on its consumer 's affordability aspect. With its pricing guaranteed approach, the Airline can draw consumers to travel with airline with faith that they have spend their dollar in a smart
The inauguration of Virgin Australia Airlines, by Sir Richard Branson, as a domestic carrier in 2000 basically aimed at the convenience of the budget travelers. The Airlines was inaugurated as relaxed informal airline. Sir Richard was open-minded, amiable, and generous with his management team, imaginative, audacious and exclusive in his thoughtfulness. Initially started as a low-cost carrier, the company improved its services to turn itself into a “new-world carrier” as described by themselves (Virgin Blue media release, 2011, para. 2).However all these faltered when Qantas’ past marketing manager took over during 2011.
Q1 : (Philip,2011) “Marketing environment is consists of the actors and forces outside the marketing department that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers” . The marketing environment consists of micro and macro environment . Macro environment have larger societal forces that effect the microenvironment , it includes : demographic , economic , cultural and other forces. The demographic is the study of human populations like : gender , age, location , density and other statistics . The demographic trends have impacted the marketing includes : changing age , population growth and so on , for example , this changing will affect the united airlines decision because demographic
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.
Q1.a When talking about environment in general, we think of the surrounding things that have an ability to affect. Same is applied with marketing environment. Marketing environment is the collection of all of the surrounding actors and forces that have the power to affect the company 's ability to do its job in having good relationship with target customers and satisfying their needs (Kotler, Armstong, Tolba, Habib, (2011). Marketing environment consists of internal and external factors that have direct affect on the marketing program. Internal factors (or the microenvironment) are the ones closed to the company, for instance, the company, it 's suppliers, the marketing intermediaries, competitors, public and customers.
Focusing on pricing and getting heterogeneous departments to operate in sync, companies can deliver anywhere between three-percentage-points to 10 points improvement in EBIDTA. Pricing strategies are constantly changing, even if not recognised by the industry members. Many of them are original and new in nature, while some are borrowed from other industries with modifications to suit the industry in discussion. American Airlines pioneering use of pricing to maximise its fleet’s capacity utilization was significantly instrumental in making it a strong force in the airline industry. This pricing has been borrowed by the fashion industry presently by using yield management to optimize their use of
h Airways PLC. I. Introducing British Airways Plc ("British Airways", "BA") is the largest international airline in the UK and one of the hot premium lines. The company's main place of business is London, with a lively presence at Heathrow, Gatwick and London City airports. British Airways serves over 1,000 calls to over 150 countries.
Looking at the respective case studies, SIA, EA and Lufthansa have shared similar challenges like striving for cost effectiveness and differentiation from competitors. Despite these similarities, SIA and EA seem to have survived throughout as an individual highly recognized brands while being involved in Star Alliance overshadows Lufthansa. As well, Lufthansa also operated with higher labor costs than low-cost players or emerging market competitors – years of union advocacy, pension fund obligations, and industry regulations forced these airlines to devote a larger share of revenues towards labor benefits. EA advantage mostly comes from government support and their self sufficient in fuel compared to the other two airlines. External factors like fuel prices or government factors may affect the airlines, but the root of sustaining competitive advantages still lies within the organization’s strategies and core values in order to gain
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.
4.2 Price – Caribbean Airlines offers various types of prices for tickets, which is known as booking classes, each differing conditions, for travel within the Caribbean, South America, North America and Europe. These booking classes fall under Four Fare Families: Non-Flexible Fares – These are the lowest available fares, which have some restrictions on cancellation, refunds and upgrades. Semi-Flexible Fares – This fare offers some flexibility and benefits related to carrying on bags, ticketing fees, upgrades to business class and refund
With the proven track record, SIA continues to bloom despite the uncertainty of the airline industry and
This is what Nok Air can offer better than its competitors. However, the disadvantage is the current Nok Air’s operating cannot generate enough profit. Since Nok Air positions itself as “premium low-cost airline”, the firm is now facing the high cost. The costs include fuel engine price, the premium onboard service, foods and beverages, the cost of offering high weight of baggage, and so on. Also, as Nok Air has to hedge fuel engine from Thai Airways International Public Company Limited, it mainly drives Nok Air to have the higher cost, and it results in decreasing the profit (“Broken Wing Nok Air,” 2008).
Introduction FlyDubai is a low cost airline that was established at the heart of the global recession by optimistic investors. The airline flight coverage is to regions that are within five hours margin of flying from Dubai. The airline was established by the Emirates government. The airline is not a competitor to the major airlines but poses competition to other low cost airlines. This marketing audit aims at looking at the potential markets for the airline and establishing ways of being established in them.