Discuss the ways in which air carriers compete with each other. How haveregulatory changes affected this competition?

Since the late 1990s, travel distribution has seen a considerable shift from offline to online channels. Many entrepreneurs who were quick to recognise the potential of new technologies have since become major travel intermediaries. Priceline.com was originally set up in 1997 as a travel auction site where consumers offered a price and traders chose whether or not to accept it. In 1999 the company was offered for public sale and valued at US$12.9 billion. Since 2004, The Priceline Group has acquired several online travel retail sites: Booking.com (2005), agoda.com (2007), TravelJigsaw (now rentalcars.com; 2010), KAYAK (2013), OpenTable (2014), Rocketmiles (2015). In addition it acquired reservation-management technology companies that provide revenue and marketing solutions to hotels or restaurants that sell via Booking.com or OpenTable: PriceMatch and AS Digital (2015). The Priceline Group operates six brands, employs 18,500 staff and operates in 224 countries. In 2016 it handled…

Quik Chips,   Inc. Quik Chips (QC) is a joint venture of five competing manufacturers of semiconductor chips used primarily in the production of smartphone and tablet technologies. Essentially, QC provides a full-range of e-Commerce and fulfillment services that help to meet customer demands for increasingly faster turnaround times for these very expensive chips. Although the concept of collaborating with competitors is relatively unique to manufacturers of semi-conductor chips, it is not unusual for QC to provide supply chain services to common customers of its members.   Changes and Evolution of Mobile Technologies: Recent years have seen exceptional growth in the demand for smartphone and tablet technologies, and for apps that require an increasing range of chip types and capabilities that support functions of mobile devices such as user interface, texting, gaming, GPS, and other highly interactive capabilities. This has resulted in a robust group of highly competitive companies…