Southwest Airlines took off in 1969 (then called Air Southwest Company) by businessman Rollin King and Texas lawyer Herb Kelleher, servicing Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio Texas with frequent, low-priced flights. What began as a small Texas airline has grown to become one of the largest airlines...

In the last few years, the commercial fortunes of British Airways and Ryanair have been going in opposite directions. It is the objective of this paper to study the respective performance of the two airlines with the purpose of understanding the key factors underlying this phenomenon. ...

"United They Fall" The airlines have been experiencing significant financial difficulties. There are several causes for the financial problems faced by the U.S. airline industry. Although the events of September 11 had effects throughout our economy, the effects on the airline industr...

The airline deregulation act is considered one of the important economic policies of the United States of America. The Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 controlled all the airliners in the US till the rising fuel costs and increasing public pressure forced the government to deregulate the airlines in 19...

Delta Airlines filed bankruptcy in 2005 shortly before Delphi Corporation did the same thing. Delta was facing many of the same issues as Delphi including a drastic under-funding of employee pension plans. "We would rather take our chances with a bankruptcy judge than submit to ma...

EN1020 18 January 2001 The Article "British Airways sacks pilots seen drinking before flight", talks about how pilots abuse the drinking rules set up by the airlines. One of the airlines, British Airways, announced that they had fired two of their pilots because they had been filmed wh...

Southwest Airlines just can't get enough. Amidst the troubles many airlines have already endured due to the attacks on 9/11, Southwest must have thought adopting a new policy making obese people pay for two seats would help their business. That, or they're just overly concerned about America's obes...

Airline Safety An estimated millions of Americans are afraid to fly, and the September 11 terrorist attack, followed by the recent crash of American Airlines Flight 587, may make them even more nervous. "Whenever there is a plane crash, it is hard for people to cope. Now, of course, it&ap...

Arming Airline Pilots: A Good Solution to a Bad Problem Following September 11th, the nation began questioning the safety of the crew and passengers aboard it's airlines flights. Many solutions were proposed, including the very controversial issue of arming cockpit crews with firearms. C...

A free essay on Airline factors Pricing-demand Of all the marketing variables that influence the potential sales of airline seats and cargo capacity, price has received the most attention since deregulation. Pricing remains a very complex issue in almost all industries. In the case of air transporta...