Southwest Airlines

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the operations strategies of Southwest Airlines. It also looks at the growth strategy and employee strategy of the company, as well as the human resources (HR) strategy and marketing strategy that the company employs. The paper specifically focuses on the successes of Southwest Airlines and the track that it is going to take in the future.

From the Paper:

"With the new challenging business environment characteristics, the company is seeking new ways to become more profitable on the market. One of the experiments it committed to was the assigned seats strategy. As previously mentioned, the company had successfully used the no-seat assignation strategy for all its history. The question that was being asked at this time was whether or not the company could save on the benefits coming from seat assignation, such as the capacity to speed up the boarding process and thus lower the time spent by the Southwest aircrafts at airports gates and overall costs. This was also in-line with its strategy of customers first, as the no-assignation policy was generally the number 1 complaint from the clients."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Southwest Airlines Corporation. William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership. No.2-0012.
• Kim, Chan, Mauborgne, Rene. Charting Your Company's Future. Harvard Business Review, Vol. 80, No. 6, June 2002
• Hines, Andrew. Now Boarding: Southwest Airlines Goes International. June 2007. BNET Intercom. On the Internet at http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?p=379. Last retrieved on August 19, 2007
• Reed, Dan. At 35, Southwest's strategy gets more complicated. USA Today. July 11, 2006.

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