Labor Laws and Unions DeMeaka Lenzy HRM 531 October 15, 2012 Alesha Alstoft Outline Allied Pilots Association I. INTRODUCTION A. Background Information 1. The APA was founded in 1963 and is the largest independent pilot union in the world. (public.alliedpilots.org) 2.
JetBlue started by following Southwest's approach of offering low-cost travel, but sought to distinguish itself by its amenities, such as in-flight entertainment, TV at every seat, and Sirius satellite radio. JetBlue operates one of the youngest fleets in the skies with an average age of 5.1 years between both types of aircraft. The airline mainly serves destinations in the United States, along with flights to the Caribbean, The Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico. As of October 2013, JetBlue serves 84 destinations in 24 states and 12 countries in the Caribbean, South America, and Latin America. JetBlue took off on February 11, 2000, with an inaugural flight between New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The aircraft, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, was received by EA on August 18, 1972 and was placed in service on August 21 of that same year. Before the accident, the aircraft accumulated 986 hours and 502 landings. The three aircraft engines it had were the Rolls-Royce, RB 211. The L-1011’s reputation was clean before the accident; first introduced earlier 1972, the TriStar was considered the most advanced commercial aircraft. During the approach to Miami, the crew discovered that either the nose gear was not fully down and locked into position, or that the light indicator for the nose gear was not working.
Brent Jang. “Air Canada temporarily lays off 345 flight attendants” The Globe and Mail, 26 Jan. 2009: B3 The recession is reducing a travel dements, following by cuts in aircrafts jobs. Starting March of 2009, Air Canada, the biggest Canadian airlines, is planning to cut 345 flight attendances. One of the strategy is to remove one of the flight attendance from transatlantic flight, where sometimes three attendance at the front of the plane. The cuts mean for example, a Boeing 767 flying overseas typically would be operating with six instead of seven attendants in business class.
Delta Airlines, Inc. was incorporated in the State of Delaware, but their corporate office and primary hub is in Atlanta, Georgia. Delta is of course an airline, which provides passenger and cargo transportation globally. On October 28, 2008, Delta and Northwest Airlines merged to create one of the largest airlines in the world: together they service 365 destinations in 66 countries. Delta is one of the founding
In this essay, I will discuss the circumstances that resulted in the merger, assess the significant positive (or negative) effects of the merger, and examine the organizational structure that has resulted from the merger. American Airlines filed for bankruptcy in November 2011. According to an interview with Richard Quest of CNN, Thomas Horton the new CEO of American Airlines stated that the company was forced into bankruptcy because of the cost disadvantages it faced compared to it’s competitors that had already gone through a bankruptcy. The news came as a shock to many. The company had enough money to sustain the losses that it may incur through
It has also deferred the delivery of the last eight A380 super jumbos it has on order, as well as the last three of 14 new 787 Dreamliners due for Jetstar. It will also shelve growth plans for Singaporean budget offshoot Jetstar Asia amid intense competition with other budget airlines in the region. Qantas shares fell sharply Thursday, down about 6.5 per cent at $1.1875. Qantas declared a statutory loss of $235 million for the six months to December, compared with a $109 million profit in the same period a year earlier. Revenue fell 4 per cent to $7.9 billion.
1. Calculate the annual depreciation expense that Delta and Singapore would record for each $100 gross value of aircraft. Depreciation = (Asset value - Residual Value) / Asset life , Asset price as $100 Delta Airlines | |Before July 1,1986 |Between July 1,1986 and |April 1, 1993 Onwards | | | |March31, 1993 | | |Asset Value |100 |100 |100 | |Residual Value |10% (100) =$90 |10% (100) =$90 |5% (100) =$5 | |Asset Life |10 |15 |20 | |Depreciation |$9 |$6 |$4.75 | Singapore Airlines | |Prior to April 1, 1989 |After April 1, 1989 | |Asset Value |100 |100 | |Residual Value |10% (100) =$90 |20% (100) =$20 | |Asset Life |8 |10 | |Depreciation |$11.25 |$8 | 2. Are the differences in the ways that two airlines account for depreciation expense significant? a) Yes, they are using significant different ways of calculating depreciating value
Delta Airlines Managing Corporate Responsibility and International Operations Introduction Delta Air Lines Inc. is an international airline based in the United States and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The airline was formed in 1924 and has grown into a major airline that serves more than 160 million customers each year. With its unsurpassed global network, Delta and Delta Connection carriers offer service to more than 350 destinations in nearly seventy countries on six continents. Delta employs 80,000 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 700 aircrafts (About Delta, 2012). This paper will discuss the Airlines strength, weaknesses, challenges, and identify its competitors.
Case Study US-Airline Since the deregulation of the U.S. airline industry in 1978, a substantial number of new carriers emerged; particularly those following a low cost strategy. Given those airlines’ rapid growth and market success the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) already identified a so called `low cost airline service revolution’ back in 1997. Almost fifteen years after the drafting of the DOT report, the low cost airline service revolution has not only continued – reflected in an increase of the domestic passenger market share from about 13 percent in 1997 to about 28 percent in 2009 – but also led to a substantial rise in the competitive interaction between network carriers and low cost carriers. Against this background of a substantial and further increasing relevance of low cost carriers, the paper aims at developing a comprehensive perspective of the evolution of the domestic U.S. airline industry in recent years. We find that network carriers (NWCs) und low-cost carrier (LCCs) each entered about 1,200 non-stop routes between 1996 and 2009.