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Books: Subjects: Airline
The Southwest Airlines Wayby Jody Hoffer Gittell List Price: $16.95 Available from Amazon $11.02 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description If you look at Southwest Airlines, and I admire what they do, they've been the most successful airline in the industry." --Gerard Arpey, CEO, American airlines "Through extensive research Jody Hoffer Gittell gets to the bottom of what has sustained Southwest Airlines' positive employee relations and high performance through good and bad times." --Thomas A. Kochan, professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Global Airline Industry Program In an industry with losses in the billions, Southwest airlines has an unbroken string of 31 consecutive years of profitability. The Southwest airlines Way examines how the company uses high-performance relationships to create enormous competitive advantage in motivation, teamwork, and coordination among employees. It then goes further to show how any company can foster these powerful cooperative relationships and explains how to: Lead with credibility and caring Invest in frontline leaders Hire and train for relational competence Use conflicts to build relationships Make unions its partners, not its adversaries Build relationships with its suppliers Download Description Drawing on extensive research and interviews with frontline Southwest employees, managers, and senior executivesB-B-The Southwest airlines Way explains how Southwest's relationship-based performance principles can be adopted by managers in any industry, with dramatic results. --This text refers to the Digital edition. |
Airline: A Strategic Management Simulation (4th Edition)by Jerald R. Smith, Peggy A. Golden List Price: $53.35 Available from Amazon $53.35 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Easy to start-up and use—even for readers with no computer experience—this Windows based strategic management simulation turns individuals into teams with the responsibility of running a regional airline. By analyzing a company's history, financial reports, and other information provided, the teams make decisions concerning hiring, forecasting, suppliers to use, costs, etc. Teams are challenged to establish objectives, plan the strategy to accomplish those objectives, and then operate the airline on a quarter-by-quarter basis. Each team's decisions are input into a computer which acts as the flying public and assigns sales to each firm based on the decisions each has made. Team members are shown how to keep adequate records, analyze happenings and develop relationships, effectively organize the team, and delegate the work. For use by various organizations promoting team building, strategic management, and marketing strategy. The publisher, Prentice Hall business Publishing This computerized strategic management simulation puts student teams in the position of running a regional airline. By analyzing a company's history, financial reports, and other information provided, the teams make decisions concerning hiring, forecasting, suppliers to use, costs, etc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
Airline Pilot Interviews: How You Can Succeed in Getting Hired 921Tby Irv Jasinski List Price: $24.95 Available from Amazon $24.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Southwest First Officer. Covered a lot of questions I never thought about. Now I'm flying for Southwest . Captain with regional carrier. After reading Irv's book, I realized how much I didn't know about interviewing. |
Ryanair: How a Small Irish Airline Conquered Europeby Siobhan Creaton List Price: $14.00 Available from Amazon $11.48 On 7-18-2006 
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The Airline Businessby Rigas Doganis List Price: $48.95 Available from Amazon $48.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description The Airline Industry is currently faced with its longest and deepest crisis to date: many of them are losing hundred of millions of US dollars, several have collapsed entirely, whilst others have had to be rescued by their governments. This crisis has been precipitated by external shocks such as the attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the invasion of Iraq and the SARs epidemic. However, in addition to this, the effect of these events has been exacerbated by dynamic and potentially destabilising internal developments. |
Luxury Airline Design (Luxury Books)by Peter Delius List Price: $45.00 Available from Amazon $28.35 On 7-18-2006 
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The Age of Flight: A History of America's Pioneering Airlineby William Garvey, et al List Price: $14.95 Available from Amazon $14.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description This incredible book is wonderfully written and pulls from the United airlines archives for nostalgic artwork, advertising, and actual photographs of the airline through time. Celebrate this groundbreaking airline from its humble beginnings in open bi-planes beginning the first airmail service in the country to one of the most respected modern trend-setting airlines in the world. Span the years for yourself and be truly impressed. |
No Frills: The Truth Behind the Low Cost Revolution in the Skiesby Simon Calder List Price: $24.95 Available from Amazon $15.72 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Recent unforeseen terrorist events have left the US - and global - airline industry in crisis. But the industry was already in the midst of a revolution. Spearheaded by the Southwest airlines, low cost, fast turnaround airlines, flying from local airports, had begun to provide dramatic competition to the bigger, more established industry names. More than a business book, much more than a travel book, this is the compelling – and supremely topical - David and Goliath story of a modern business phenomenon and the dynamic men and women behind it. No Frills documents unparalleled events in the history of aviation travel as they unfold. How Southwest airlines inspired UK budget airlines such as EasyJet and Ryanair |
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