How the busy bee bustles: Learning flights in honeybees
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
While it may take you days to learn your way around a new town, it only takes a few seconds for a honeybee to learn the details of a new landscape. In “Investing in learning: why do honeybees, Apis mellifera, vary the durations of learning flights?” by Cynthia A. Wei and Fred C....
Implementation of a Flight Management System within an Airline
Tutorials/exercises - 13 pages - Computer science
This analysis aims to design and build a prototype of an airline-oriented web application for managing aircraft flights. At the same time, it aims to be a powerful, easy-to-use, fast and effective management tool for airline agents, on the one hand, and a simple and safe information tool...
Using AI Copilots to Enhance Aviation Safety for Autonomous Aircraft Operations
Case study - 4 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
This research proposes an AI copilot system to improve aviation safety for autonomous flight operations. The system combines knowledge representation, reasoning, natural language processing, and computer vision, helping with risk assessments, countermeasure recommendations, and human-AI...
Porter's Five forces - The Airlines industry
Essay - 6 pages - Services marketing
Airlines are companies and their aim is to operate routes and carry passengers. We will not analyse the cargo part of the airlines here but only the passenger carrying. An Airline can be: • A national company (airline owned by the government of a country). It normally conducts scheduled...
SWOT Analysis - Qatar Airways
Case study - 4 pages - Tourism marketing
Qatar Airways is the flag carrier of the State of Qatar in the Middle East. The company is known to be one of the best airlines in the world in terms of safety, comfort, image. Its main air hub is located in Doha, Qatar, and the company operates flights all over the world, sometimes via...
Analysis of the crisis management of Malaysia flight MH370 disaster
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
On 8th March 2014, the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared within 1 hour of takeoff while en route from the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur to the Chinese city of Beijing. The airplane, a Boeing 777 registration number 9M-MRO, was carrying 239 persons from 14 different countries, of...
SWOT Analysis - Emirates
Case study - 5 pages - Tourism marketing
The tourism sector is one of the most important sectors for the economy, regardless of the country. However, tourism has been impacted by the onset of the health crisis, which has generated millions of euros in losses worldwide for the entire segment. Airlines have also been hit hard by the...
Pestel Analysis - Airbus
Case study - 5 pages - Tourism marketing
The Airbus company operates in the aeronautics sector, which includes a civilian component and a military component. Airbus was created in 1969, following an agreement between several European powers, notably France, Germany and England. The head office is located in France, near Toulouse. The...
A Close Reading of Flight by Patterns by Sherman Alexei
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Flight Patterns is a short story written by Sherman Alexei; I selected this story because it captures and discusses the issues affecting the current American society in a unique writing style that captivates the reader. Sherman brings into light the socio-political issues affecting the...
Boyhood - Richard Linklater (2014) - An Eriksonian Analysis
Artwork commentary - 5 pages - Film studies
Personality development is a complex and multifaceted process that occurs across the lifespan and is influenced by a myriad of biological, social, and psychological factors. Throughout history, an enormous number of hypothetical models have been brought up to explain the causes and the steps of...
Traditional and low cost airlines - marketing strategies
Case study - 11 pages - Tourism marketing
The airline industry has undergone profound changes in the space of a few years. First of all, because of increased digitisation, but also because of other so-called low-cost companies which have emerged and which have disrupted the traditional aviation pattern. This has been a great thing for...
PESTEL Analysis - Boeing
Case study - 5 pages - Tourism marketing
The Boeing Company was founded as B&W in 1916. It operates in the civil, military and space aeronautics industries. Given the political context at the time, the company grew rapidly, including supplying the US military with war engines as the country entered the global conflict. Military aviation...
Porter's Five Forces - Emirates
Case study - 4 pages - Tourism marketing
Emirates is one of the best known and largest airlines in the world. Its main hub is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. EMIRATES was founded in 1985, making it one of the first historic companies in the Middle East. One of its main competitors, QATAR AIRWAYS, for example, only started...
Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
The technology industry is a market of change, due to innovative breakthroughs. But for the firms in this sector, the challenge is to predict success. The disk drive industry provides some characteristics of how changes can cause certain types of firms to succeed or fail in choosing for instance...
How does one measure human factors, and how does one measure the attribution of human factors to aviation accidents?
Case study - 86 pages - Management
Lieutenant Adam Bryant, a U.S. Coast Guard officer, was a recent graduate of flight school and strong believer in the Coast Guard's primary mission of Search & Rescue. On October 29, 2009, Lieutenant Bryant found himself launched in a C-130 airplane in search of a person in a skiff...
Business analysis of Air Deccan (Now Kingfisher Red)
Tutorials/exercises - 45 pages - Business strategy
Air transport is the most modern, the quickest and the latest addition to the modes of transport. Because of speed with which airplanes can fly, travel by air is becoming increasingly popular Air Deccan is a unit of Deccan Aviation Private Limited, India's largest private heli-charter...
Marketing strategies of the traditional low cost airlines
Thesis - 30 pages - Services marketing
The airline sector has evolved in recent years, with low-cost airline companies offering tickets at unbeatable prices. Many traditional companies are thus forced to compete with these prices in order to remain competitive in the market. These low cost tariffs are offered by the low cost airlines...
Online airline reservation system
Dissertation - 49 pages - Computer science
One of the most common modes of travel is traveling by air. Customers who wish to travel by air nowadays have a wide variety of airlines and a range of timings to choose from. Nowadays competition is so fierce between airlines that there are lot of discounts and a lot of luxuries given to...
The marketing tools of the low cost airline companies
Thesis - 31 pages - Services marketing
The low cost concept was first introduced in 1971 in the United States, with the launch of a new company called "Southwest Airlines". However, the concept only gained popularity and set the cash registers ringing with the creation of Ryanair in 1991. Backed by its pioneering pricing policy, the...
SWOT Analysis - The space tourism market
Case study - 5 pages - Tourism marketing
Major players in the sector today, Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic), Jeff Bezos (BlueOrigin), Elon Musk (SpaceX), are now familiar names when it comes to space tourism. All of them have the ambition to democratize access to space with, however, some subtle differences in their respective...
Study of fusion: Star Alliance
Case study - 36 pages - Services marketing
In 1997, Thai, Lufthansa, SAS, Air Canada and United Airlines combined to create Star Alliance, the largest network of airlines. Star Alliance is a consortium of companies that aims to become the leading network for frequent travelers with high value customers (generating high income) and to...
Business analysis & recommendations report:Southwest Airlines Co.
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
Southwest Airlines Co. was founded in 1967, but its first scheduled flight was delayed until 1971 due to lawsuits from competitors. The company began as a small, regional carrier with three routes. In its initial public offering in June of 1971, the company reported that the funds...
Strategy of Air France: Analysis and recommendations (2009)
Case study - 38 pages - Business strategy
Born on August 30, 1933 by the consolidation of major French airlines ‘Societe Generale Air Transport,' Air Union, the International Company for Air Navigation, Air East and ‘Compagnie Generale Aeropostale', Air France formed the largest French airline company. In January 2000, the...
Strategic analysis of the company "Easyjet"
Case study - 17 pages - Services marketing
The low-cost airline companies are subject to the same safety rules and controls on airplanes than any scheduled airline. They meet all the various conventions, protocols and agreements, of European and international standards. At the national level, even though France is part of the European...
Overbooking at Global Airlines
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Any business organization has various challenges in its operation, therefore, the organization, through the management should make sure that the organization operates towards the objectives of the organization. One of the organizations that face such challenges is the Global Airline Services,...
Biographies of three African American aviators
Thesis - 7 pages - Journalism
The following document presents an overview of three distinct and influential African American pilots from the 1920's and 1930's era. Following World War I and II, many African American men and women began to dream of become pilots. Unfortunately, the situation in the United States did not allow...
EasyJet strategy
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
EasyJet is a company that was founded in 1994 by Stelios. This was the first European airline to offer cheap local flights. In 1995, EasyJet was one of Europe's leading low cost airlines, thanks to an efficient operating model, brand awareness and the ability to maintain a high level...
Easy Jet, Strategic management project
Essay - 12 pages - Business strategy
The airlines industry has been highly perturbed by many new external and internal events since the last five years (September 11th, increasing of fuel value, and recently many technical incidents in some flights). All these components transform major stakes and keys of the different...
The Communication Strategy of Air France
Thesis - 14 pages - Business strategy
In 1933, Air Orient, Air Union,' Compagnie Generale Aerospostale', ‘Societe Generale de Transport Aerien' (ex Farman airlines) and ‘Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aerienne' (CIDNA) merged together to form Air France. Air France was officially inaugurated at the Le Bourget...
The Importance of business travellers for Airlines
Essay - 11 pages - Services marketing
We can say that business travellers are people who need to travel as a part of their job to increase their company's revenue or to represent their company in another place. As they travel many times in a year (ten times the leisure traveller in average), they have a high expectancy of the...
