Essays on Air France

The crash of Air France 447 is considered the biggest disaster ever to hit Air France and Airbus since the beginning of their venture into this industry. All of the 228 passengers and crew of the flight were killed in this accident (Palmer, 2013). Due to the delay in the recovery of the black box from the ocean bed, the investigations and final report, published by BEA, took nearly three years for completion (Jonathan, 2011). The final investigation revealed that the accident occurred due to the inconsistent data indicated by the FMC (Flight Management Computer System) regarding the fluid ...

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The airline industry had long been using online service to sell tickets. Online ticket sales have continued to grow at about 10-15% every year. Air France has been among the early users of online ticket selling and has benefitted greatly from it. The airline has enjoyed some growth and respectable performance in spite of the crises within and outside the industry.

The Internet and the Airline Industry Since the early years of the internet, the airline industry has been among the first to embrace the power of the internet. It had been among the first industries to begin selling ...

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Passengers aged over fifty years often develop Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)during prolonged flights. The development of DVT among passengers is well documented but is not often experienced by pilots flying commercial aircraft; however, there are a few cases where pilots have developed DVT in the course of duty.The potential liability of airlines is much more expounded with respect to claims arising from injuries caused to passengers without any sort of monetary limitation. In order to address the problem and help balance the liability to a proper proportion, the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International ...

ABSTRACT

Pilot uniforms, particularly in the commercial airline industry, conveys professionalism, competence, and experience. However, historically, uniforms started as a component of safety in aviation, which relied not just in their protective functions but as well in their capability to protect combat pilots from the natural elements of extreme heat and cold, particularly during the era of open cockpits. Protective flight clothing has evolved significantly through decades and even centuries. The sophisticated development in protected flight clothing, however, failed to influence adaption in the civil air transport industry. Using grounded theory through archival literature analysis, the Capstone Project revealed advantages ...

The various media that brought the news on crashing of the air France flight 358 in Toronto gave it the attention that it deserved. Most of the newspaper said that, it was a miracle nobody lost their lives. In most cases of disaster death is expected at large. All the media that focused on the story provided detailed event that led to the crashing of the plane. The prevailing weather conditions, the speed at its landing and the fact that it landed halfway on the landing lane could have the cause of the accident (McKechnie 2013). The rescue team ...

Question 1: what do you consider the main advantages & disadvantage of print advertising for those airlines that still use it as a part of their marketing communications strategy?

Marketing is that function of a business which is responsible for identifying customer requirements and making collaboration with other functions of the business to satisfy them. Advertising is a subset of marketing. It is a way through which a company reaches its customers or potential customers to convey the product offerings and how that product offering is differentiated from others companies offering same products or services.

- Print Medium: Magazines, newspapers, posters etc. - ...

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The size of the market has something to do with every business involved with that market. The European Civil Aviation Industry, for example, is the second largest civil aviation market in the world, next to the United States. Among the biggest players in the European Civil Aviation Industry were Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. The former occupies about 8 percent while the latter occupies about 4 percent of the entire European Civil Aviation market. In 2003, these two big players officially announced their plans to merge, which would theoretically make their combined market share somewhere around 12 ...