EMBRY RIDDLE BSAB425 ALL ASSIGNMENTS

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EMBRY RIDDLE BSAB425 ALL ASSIGNMENTS

Question # 00176452 Posted By: paul911 Updated on: 01/20/2016 12:27 PM Due on: 01/21/2016

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1.5

These review questions will identify a few key topics from the chapters and learning objectives in Module 1. Answer all four questions.

1. What business model traits allow the full service airlines to carry the majority of the world airline traffic? What do you think is their biggest threat to future growth?

2. Give four examples of when external forces caused the airline industry's growth to fluctuate. Choose one and explain how an airline could prepare for this fluctuation in the future.

3. Explain how creating new capacity and increasing supply can address the Next Generation Air Transportation System problem of accommodating the forecast traffic level rise.

4. Describe the controversy that the 2007 FAA Reauthorization Bill's proposal to use a cost-based user fee system instead of the current system of excise taxes to fund Next Generation Air Transportation System improvements caused. Analyze the pros and cons of a cost-based user fee system.

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MGMT 425 – TRENDS AND CURRENT PROBLEMS IN AIR TRANSPORTATION

CASE STUDY – AIRLINE SAFETY STANDARDS OF CARE

Read the legal case Abdullah v. American Airlines attached. The highlighted areas contain the pertinent information for this case study.

Answer the following case study questions:

1. Identify and analyze the main issues of this case study.

2. Explain how ‘local standard of care,’ ‘federal standard of care,’ and ‘airline safety standard’ are relevant in this legal case.

3. How does the determination of Federal Preemption in the field of air safety affect the outcome of this legal case?

4. “In determining the standards of care in an aviation negligence action, a court must refer not only to specific regulations but also to the overall concept that aircraft may not be operated in a careless or reckless manner.” How would the viewpoint that only specific regulations must be referred to in determining aviation negligence have changed the outcome of this legal case?

5. What regulation did the court find that implicitly preempts territorial standards for aviation safety?

6. What regulation did the court use to conclude that there is an overarching general standard of care under the FAA and its regulations?

7.What law does Congress derive the power to preempt state law?

MGMT 425 Case Study – Airline Safety Standards of Care

2.6

These review questions will identify a few key topics from the chapters and learning objectives in Module 2. Answer all five questions.

1. Describe the various levels of a positive safety culture necessary to implement a successful Safety Management Program. As an airline manager, what are a few steps you would take to implement a positive safety culture?

2. What problems do external Safety Management System audits cause for major airlines? How does the International Air Transport Association and the International Civil Aviation Organization work together to monitor compliance with Safety Management Systems?

3. What was the importance of the December 1970 Hague Convention? Did airline operations change to accommodate the Hague Convention?

4. Explain why the Air Carrier Standard Security Program (ACSSP) was developed. How has this program evolved?

5. What challenges does General Aviation face when addressing civil aviation security threats? What solutions would you recommend to resolve these challenges?

3.4

1. Read Chapter 3, Ryanair and the Low-cost Revolution, by Sean D. Barrett of Trinity College Dublin in Air Transport in the 21st Century: Key Strategic Developments (pp. 113-127).

2. Watch this interview with an executive at Ryanair.

Ryanair's Business Model - Interview with Deputy CEO, Michael Cawley (Links to an external site.)

(9:44)3. Answer the six questions listed in the Case Study document.

1. Describe Ryanair’s business decisions during 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1992. Explain why Ryanair lost passengers yet made a profit in 1991 (reference Table 3.1, p. 115). 2. Explain Ryanair’s product. Compare the benefits of Ryanair’s decision to use smaller airports and point-to-point service vs. using larger airports and hub-and-spoke service. 3. Analyze Ryanair’s business decisions regarding labor productivity. Why has Ryanair been more successful in reducing its cost base than competing low-cost carriers?4. Define ‘economic rent.’5. Evaluate how safe operations, labor unionization, fuel prices, and environmental taxes could impact Ryanair’s future. 6. How does Ryanair shareholder policy benefit the airline?

3.5

These review questions will identify a few key topics from the chapters and learning objectives in Module 3. Answer all four questions.

1. How did the rise in oil prices in 2008 affect airline pricing for checked baggage? Give an example of how this change affected US airline profitability.

2. Explain commission-based ancillaries. How could dynamic packaging increase airline profitability?

3. Compare the operating characteristics for charter, low cost, and leisure hybrid business models. How does sector distance and aircraft carrying capacity affect unit costs?

4. The author predicts a contraction of charter airlines in the future. What is the reasoning?

4.5

These review questions will identify a few key topics from the chapter and learning objectives in Module 4. Answer all four questions.

1. What differentiates a Legacy Carrier from a Flag Carrier?

2. What business decision set Latin American Airlines apart from the rest of the airlines in this chapter? How did this decision affect its reliance on the passenger load factor?

3. Evaluate how leveraging alliance membership can bring benefits to airlines across all dimensions of a value proposition.

4. What are the six common observations of the airlines in this chapter?

5.4

1. View this recordedTransportation Research Board (Links to an external site.) Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) webinar from June 5, 2012. Fast forward to 30:44 - 54:32 for the presentation on ACRP Report 60: Guidelines for Integrating Alternative Jet Fuel into the Airport Setting.

Webinar: Aviation Fuel Costs and Alternatives (Links to an external site.) (88.5 MB WMV file)
2. Review these slides from the presentation relevant to the case study.

Slides:ACRP Report 60: Guidelines for Integrating Alternative Jet Fuel into the Airport Setting Preview the document

ACRP Report 60: Guidelines for Integrating Alternative Jet Fuel into the Airport Setting Preview the document

3. Answer the four questions listed in the Case Study document.

1. Describe the steps along the supply chain for aviation fuel production. What problems do you think each step of the supply chain process could pose for the airport operator? 2. What are six factors to consider in the pre-assessment of implementation readiness? 3. Identify why each of the factors are important to consider prior to implementing an alternative aviation fuel program. 4. Why would you need to consider stakeholders in the pre-assessment analyses?

5.5

These review questions will identify a few key topics from the chapters and learning objectives in Module 5. Answer all five questions.

1. Why would governments be reluctant to hand over airport ownership, but not airport management to the private sector? What key airport management function do governments retain responsibility for? Why?

2. Give two examples of how airports are differentiating their product to meet the more diverse needs of their airline customers. How could this cause problems for airport management relations with the airlines?

3. How would the increased use of remote check-in methods, such as mobile phones and internet, change future airport infrastructure needs?

4. Explain how policy responses, technological responses, and operations responses to the challenge of ensuring that the growth of the air transport industry is compatible with the requirements of sustainable development.

5. Why is the idea of fuel taxation debatable?

6.4

1. Review Chapter 15, Cooperation in Air Navigation Services: Is Globalization Arriving in the World of ANS? by Manjit Singh from the Department of Civil Aviation Malaysia inAir Transport in the 21st Century: Key Strategic Developments (pp. 329-352).

2. Review excerpts of the dissertation on the Star Alliance by Debora Silva dated May 20, 2012, in the Case Study document and answer the three listed questions.

Silva, D. B. G. Q. (2012). Co-evolution of strategic alliance between multiple partners in the same industry: A case study of a global airline alliance: The star alliance. The George Washington University. (full dissertation is available through the Hunt Library (Links to an external site.))

6.5

These review questions will identify a few key topics from the chapter and learning objectives in Module 6. Answer all four questions.

1. List the primary benefits of alliance cooperation. Why would an airline benefit from partnering with an alliance?

2. How can an airline's alliance partnership restrict the airline's autonomy of action? How can airlines counter this problem?

3. What is a weakness of the ICAO endorsed Global Air Traffic Management Concept? What do think the US military’s response to the IATA ‘One Sky’ vision would be?

4. Using existing areas of airline cooperation as a guideline, where would cooperation involving Air Navigation Service Providers have the potential to improve the Air Navigation Service industry?

7.4

1. Review theFact Sheet - FAA Forecast for Fiscal Years 2013-2033 (Links to an external site.).

2. Read pages 15-17, 43-44, 65-66, and 72-74 of theFAA Aerospace Forecast Fiscal Years 2013-2033 (Links to an external site.).

3. Answer the five questions listed on the Case Study document.

7.5

These review questions will identify a few key topics from the chapter and learning objectives in Module 7. Answer all four questions.

1. Why is the ownership of airlines important in the context of the 7th Freedom issue?

2. Describe a typical US ‘Open Skies’ agreement. Is the typical US ‘Open Skies’ agreement pro-competition? If so, how?

3. What are a few benefits of liberalization to travelers?

4. What is the difference between the ‘economic’ or ‘cost benefit’ approach and the ‘exchange of rights’ approach to evaluating air transport policy?

8.4

Read pages 29-43 of the FAA http://www.sforoundtable.org/assets/issues/nextgen/NextGen_Implementation_Plan_2012.pdf (Links to an external site.), and answer the five questions listed on the Case Study document

Answer the following case study questions:1. Summarize the problems with the 1993 research and development plan: Airport Pavements – Solutions for Tomorrow’s Aircraft? Since then, what steps has the FAA taken to eliminate the use of the old design procedures? What aspects of pavement design, construction, and evaluation remain to be studied? 2. Explain why the Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding limits on pavement design life time frames make it important to distinguish between pavement structural life and functional life when evaluating pavement life extension and life cycle costs analysis.3. Compare the difference in determining pavement life cycle costs between 20 – 40 years using the traffic loading rather that of time.4. What are the current functions of FAA PAVEAIR? What additional functions are expected to be added?5. Evaluate how reducing pavement maintenance costs to airport operators by extending the pavement life cycle beyond 20 years will benefit airline operators.

8.5

These review questions will identify a few key topics from the chapter and learning objectives in Module 8. Answer all four questions.

1. What are the key reasons why airlines are investing in IT? Give an example for each.

2. Has airline spending on IT increased or decreased recently? Why?

3. What are a few challenges for airlines migrating from a magnetic strip to the 2-D barcode standard?

4. Why is the industry beginning to adopt radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips that are embedded into the baggage tags?

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Case_Study_Airline_Safety_Standards_Care_(1).pdf (277.14 KB)

Case_Study_Aviation_Fuel_Alternatives_(1).pdf (147.59 KB)

Case_Study_Star_Alliance_(1).pdf (186.15 KB)

Case_Study_FAA_Forecast_(1).pdf (148.76 KB)