Why Did Qantas Fail

Established in 1920, Qantas is the world's 11th largest airline and the 2nd oldest. It was founded in the Queensland outback as the Queensland and Northern territory Aerial Service (QANTAS) Limited, by pioneer aviators Hudson Fysh, Paul McGinness and Fergus McMaster. Qantas was a former government owned business; it did not view profits or efficiency as its prime goal. In 1993 a 25% stake was sold to British Airways. Qantas was privatised in 1995 and has had to adopt management practices to overcome both internal and external influences and had to change its narrow-minded culture. Although Qantas is primarily a passenger airline, air freight is also an integral part of its core business. Other Qantas

On October 22nd, 2001, the Industrial dispute between QANTAS and its employees was initiated with the offering of a new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. This proposed an 18-month wage freeze for employees plus a sliding scale profit share scheme. Ten out of twelve unions under QANTAS accepted the terms of the agreement, barring the unions of manufacturing employees (AWU and AMWU). They were holding out for a 4-6% pay rise. On the 8th May 2002, some ten months later, the dispute was resolved when QANTAS agreed to an across the board 6% pay increase. This essay provides an in-depth analysis into the dispute, including causes, the resolution process, the role of stakeholders, and costs and benefits for all concerned.

Rivalry among industry competitors has caused attention to be focused on tariff levels. Airfare prices were at an all time low in 2009. This suggested a strong competitive rivalry based on price differentiation. This price differentiation will cause a dramatic loss in revenue if these prices continue to drop and this would lead to a reduced competitiveness. In an effort to safeguard revenue and reduce expenditure, Qantas has developed a strategy to deal with a change in the external competitive environment. .

Maintain Qantas frequent flyer as a driver of loyalty across group and as a leading loyalty program.

The demographic characteristics of customers can be broken down by the class they choose to fly. First Class is chiefly attracting high-income earners, who are concerned with a high level of service and enjoy an air of exclusivity. These are knows as “comfort seekers” and they can include business magnates, federal politicians, sporting stars and a-list celebrities. The First Class market is highly concentrated; less than 3% of passengers will choose to fly First Class but those customers make up close to 30% in revenue for the airline (Keen and Strand 2007). Because the focus is on service and

1) Qantas Airways Limited is the national airline of Australia, it is also the largest airline in Australia. The Qantas Group’s principal business is providing domestic and international air transport services for passengers. Additionally, Qantas owns several subsidiary companies such as Jetstar and QantasLink that also operates flights to domestic and international locations, and Q Catering, a premium full service flight caterer.

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Already JetStar, Tiger, Air Asia, Virgin Blue, for example, are low-cost airlines and are established in the Australian domestic market. This creates the need to differentiate to survive.

Founded in Queensland Australia in 1920, Qantas has now become Australia 's biggest name in relation to domestic and international airline. Originally registered as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (QANTAS). Qantas is widely regarded as one of the world 's top airlines and one of the strongest brands in Australia. Over the years it has managed to build a reputation for excellence in

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The Primary marketing objective is to achieve a 4-7% increase in fares per route flown by the increase of ticketing prices even with fewer seats on the aircraft. Status matching will be offered to competing airline frequent flyers to encourage them to travel more with American than their current choose airline. Airlines represents a $783 billion a year industry (Fact Sheet: Industry Statistics, 2014). Being able to expand the market to the high-end segment would create an attraction to a unique service not offered by other major US airlines. Break even cost would be the first year goal while there would be an increase in cost to retrofit aircraft.

Provide full value of money for customers through reduce cost and enhance level of quality (Qantas Airways Limited, 2014).

The boards of directors are implicating new strategies to help Qantas renew in the post maturity stage. These strategies are:

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