South East Airlines

Company Summary

E-Commerce

The airline uses Global Distribution Systems to connect to the world. The company can let travel agents and control all the local hubs through this system. In addition to this they have a website through which the customers can check out the schedules and prices of the different destinations. Soon after the Internet touched base on the scene, airlines, GDS, and clients communicated through a private system built for the voyage operators. With the Internet, the system was open to everybody, and as of recently assembled, which for the air transport industry which was greatly fetched touchy turned out to be a win/win scenario since they no longer needed to put resources into complex and unreasonable private arranges.

This brought about the correspondence between the travel agents, GDS, and the airlines getting less complex particularly on the grounds that the airlines as of recently had broad experience with information dissemination by means of a regular dispersion dialect. At first the Internet bookings were confined to tickets reservations and installment transactions. On fulfillment of the booking methodology, paper tickets were sent to the client. This made the procedure intricate, as the clients needed to buy the tickets ahead of time in the event that they needed the tickets to achieve them on time. Once electronic tickets were presented, this issue was tackled, as paper tickets were altogether disposed of, accordingly lessening the lead time and expenses connected with online transactions (Savage & Scott, 2004, pp.147-150).

Company Evaluation

Outline of Competitors

It has competitors such as the South West Airlines and JetBlue Airways. Southwest is the world's largest low cost carrier based in Dallas, Texas. It serves all the major destinations in North America. It is the third in the world airline by number of passengers, the world's largest low-cost carrier and the largest airline in the U.S. domestic routes. The airline's fleet consists of 500 aircraft. In 2006, the airline carried 84 million passengers. And for more than 30 years, makes a profit for their owners. South West Airlines has brought to the air transport industry has a lot of innovation. Many of the required attributes of a modern budget airline first been tried and put it in the airline Southwest. She was the first in the world declined from a paper ticket, started booking places via the Internet; use the park has only one type of aircraft and to land in the cabin on any free space (Boguslaski et.al, 2004, pp.317-350). JetBlue is based in New York, and started its operations in Delaware. The airline serves the major destinations across America. JetBlue Airways is an airline of the United States, is headquartered the International Airport John F. Kennedy. JetBlue Airways Corporation is a low-cost airline since the aim of the company is to offer low rates with good quality of service. The airline has flights to major cities in the United States, also operates flights to the Caribbean, Bahamas, Bermuda, Mexico and Colombia. Currently the airline frequent flyer program called ...