Trends in the Global Airline Industry
Recently, the global airline industry has been focusing on cost cutting without affecting quality of services offered. This can be observed from promotions offering cheap flight tickets with more destination options advertised in their packages.
Business Level Strategy Adopted by AirAsia
AirAsia targeted to set "Affordable flight tickets" as the first impression given to their target customers. This was achieved by promotions of the cheapest tickets anyone can find.
How AirAsia Achieve Cost Leadership Through Differentiation
One of AirAsia's business strategies that differentiates them with other airline companies is that they allow their customers to customise their flight experience to the maximum. Unlike other airline companies that provide everything upon purchase of flight ticket (drinks, foods, snacks, pillows etc.), AirAsia allows their customers to pay for just what they require and skip those they do not. This way, AirAsia can offer cheaper flight tickets without losing money and keep their customer happy at the same time, which is a win-win situation.'
How AirAsia Sustain Competitiveness Through Adopted Business Level Strategy
AirAsia takes a good pride on their frequent and surprising "Big Sale" promotions which has set travelling as a trend to their target market as these promotions are often being used as an excuse for customers to travel as the fare offered is crazy attractive and affordable.
1. Pete Cashmore
Pete Cashmore is the richest blogger in the world who is running the
most famous largest and award winning blog about Social Media and
Technology. The most interesting thing about Pete Cashmore is that the
Mashable was born in a dorm room 6 years ago when he was just 19 years
old and within this short span of time he is able to become the ever
richest blogger in the world and his blog Mashable is the most visited
and most read tech blog in the blogging industry.
2. Michael Arrington
I must say that Michael Arrington can be said to be the god of
technology. He is running the ultimate tech blog named TechCrunch and is
also the head of Silicon Valley. The blog updates minute to minute tech
news and updates to the people and this blog has now become the most
influential technology blog earning Michael a booming $500,000 per
month.
3. Perez Hilton
Perez Hilton is a blog about celebrity news and scandals and a lot
more. As we all know that people love to talk and hear about latest
celeb news so it has been a great success since its launch. The blog
provides the ultimate entertainment to the users and this is the reason
that Mario Lavandeira earning more than $300,000 monthly from this celeb
blog.
4. Vitaly Friedman
Smashing Magazine is the most popular and famous blog in web design
and development. If you want to master this field than smashing magazine
can help you a lot in achieving your goal. The founder of this great
and the most successful web development blog is Vitaly Friedman which
makes sure that people get new and latest tips and guides and high
quality tutorials to help them make web an easy place. With all this he
earns about $180,000/month.
5. Timothy Sykes
It is one of the most popular and successful blog in the area of
Finance. Started by Timothy Sykes with his own name this blog now earns
about $150,000 – $160,000 monthly. In start he was actually a penny
stock scam geek guy but slowly he turned to be on the right way and is
now training people and writing articles on investment and finance to
help people around the globe.
6. Jake Dobkin
Jake Dobkin is the owner of the most popular blog Gothamist. His main
focus is urban lifestyle and discusses mostly on the living and issues
of the New York at the moment. The Gothamist Network now covers the
details about New York, restaurants, bars and different spots in the
area. Tourists love to visit his blog and enjoy the weekends in the
prescribed zone. He earns about $125,000 – $135,000 from the blog.
7. Collis Taeed
Collis Taeed is another professional rich blogger whose main topic is
about different lectures and tutorials on different designing tools and
application softwares. You can easily master any software by watching
his great videos. Collis Taeed has made photo and video editing really
easy for newbies on his blog TutsPlus and for all the hard work he puts
he is able to earn $120,000 monthly.
8. Gina Trapani
Gina Trapani is a social woman who talks about self improvement on
one of her top Personal improvement blog – Life Hacker. She is an active
social blogger and is one of the richest female bloggers in the world –
2013. She blogs about tips to improve yourself and personality by some
really easy tips which helps along and is earning about $110,000 monthly
from her blog.
9. Matt Marshall
His blog Venture Beat is also about technology, money and investment
and business techniques and focuses on how to earn good income with
investing a proper amount of money on a proper business. Matt Marshall
was a journalist in start but late in 2006 he started blogging and has
now become the top notch Tech guru earning about $80,000 – $100,000
monthly from his blog.
10. Ewdison Then
Here stands on 10th position are Mr. Ewdison Then who owns
this Technology blog and he writes mainly on Gadgets and technology
related items. You will surely find all the latest gadgets, tech and app
news on his blog Slashgear.com. He is making a good money out of this
and is earning about $60,000 – $80,000 on monthly basis.
1) Tadashi Yanai
(is
founder and president of Fast Retailing, of which Uniqlo (“unique
clothing”) is subsidiary. In 1984, he opened his first Uniqlo store in
Hiroshima. In the April 2009 issue of Monocle magazine, Yanai said, “I
might look successful but I’ve made many mistakes. People take their
failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will
find success next time.”).
2) Nobutada Saji (is a Japanese businessman, chief
executive of Suntory Ltd, Japan’s fourth-largest brewer and food
manufacturer. He obtained his MBA at the University of California, Los
Angeles, and became CEO of Suntory in 2001.He resides in Hyōgo
Prefecture.).
3) Hiroshi Yamauchi (He was the third president of
Nintendo, joining the company in 1949 until stepping down on May 31,
2002, to be succeeded by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi is credited with
transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card-making company in Japan
to today’s multi-billion dollar video game company. He also became the
majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team in 1992, which is
now managed by former Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln.).
4) Akira Mori (the president and CEO of the Mori
Trust. His father, Taikichiro Mori, founded Mori Building, the company
his older brother Minoru now heads, following World War II. Following
their father’s death in 1993, the former Mori Building company split
into the Mori Building company now headed by Minoru and Mori Trust,
headed by Akira.).
5) Kunio Busujima (is the founder and chairman of Sankyo, one of the three major pachinko machine makers in Japan.).
6) Masayoshi Son (founder and current chief executive
officer of SoftBank Capital, and the chief executive officer of SoftBank
Mobile (the renamed, effective October 1, 2006, Vodafone K. K. ). At
age 16, Son moved to California and finished high school. He attended the University of California, Berkeley in which he majored in economics and studied computer science.).
7) Hiroshi Mikitani (owns one of the largest online
auction «Rakuten». His successful career began with Hiroshi Mikitani
creation in the United States own company. Mikitani crashed in the U.S.
market. But he did not let his hands and some time later founded the
company «Crimson Group». At that time in Japan, there were no major
companies involved in selling over the Internet and he decided to create
their own online store.).
8) Eitaro Itoyama (Itoyama has served four terms as a
member of the Diet, the Japanese Parliament with nearly twenty years of
active involvement in the ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party.
He is also the Chairman and benefactor of an eponymous educational
institution. Itoyama is one of the largest shareholders and is a
prominent investor activist within national airline JAL. He is also a
best-selling author, with books on political and business subjects.).
9) Masahiro Miki (source of income is the «ABC-Mart»
company, founded by him . He began his career in 1979. In 1985 he opened
his own trading company. A lot of clothes and shoes from the U.S. and Europe appeared on Japanese shelves due to his innovative approach to the business.).
10) Takemitsu Takizaki (is the founder and president of
the famous company Keyence Corporation. The company Keyence Corporation
was founded in 1974 to the year and for more than thirty activities
into a global organization with fifteen branches. The production company
– is a variety of electronic devices and other components of many
spheres of human life, such as, for example, the automotive area,
biotechnology, pharmaceutical, food etc.).
11) Ito Masatoshi (Masatoshi Ito is founder and
honorary chairman of the Ito-Yokado Group, the second largest retailing
organization in the world. Mr. Ito built the company from a small
apparel store in Tokyo.).
12) Shigenobu Nagamori (Founder and chief executive of
Nidec, maker of micromotors used in DVDs, hard drives, robots, game
consoles. On acquisition hunt in Europe to expand motor business
following purchase of motor subsidiary from U.S. electronics firm
Emerson Electric last year.).
13) Chang-Woo Han (founder of Maruhan Corporation. “I’d
like to give away all the money I’ve made before I die. I can assure
that my personal assets, except for the company to be handed over to my
son and some money for my wife, will be used for the inter-development
of Korea and Japan,” Han said in a statement.).
14) Yoshikazu Tanaka (is a Japanese entrepreneur who is a developer of Social Networking Service GREE, provided by GREE, Inc. which is an Internet business company
he founded. As of 2003, at the age 26, Tanaka started developing SNS
GREE as a hobby. In February 2004, he opened SNS GREE to the public, as
a personal website. By March 2004, over 10,000 users had joined the SNS
that soon became hard for him to manage rapidly growing service by
himself. In December 2004, he established a company, GREE, Inc. in order
to run the service for the growing number of users.).
15) Soichiro Fukutake (is the president of Benesse
Corporation, a Japanese company best known for its distance learning and
test preparation schools. Fukutake’s father founded Benesse, a
corporation whose schools train children to pass entrance exams to allow
admission to prestigious schools and universities. Some four million
Japanese children between the age of 3 and 18 are enrolled at Benesse
schools.).
16) Minoru Mori (is considered to be Japan’s most
powerful and influential building tycoon. He joined his father,
Taikichiro’s, real estate business after graduating from Tokyo
University and is now president and CEO of Mori Building, of which he
and his older brother Kei’s (a university professor) families own 100%.
He owns 12.74% of Sunwood Corporation.).
17) Ryoichi Jinnai (is the founder of Promise, Japan’s
third-largest consumer finance company, of which he is honorary
chairman. Funded the Ryoichi Jinnai Conference Center in Fiji.).
18) Kazuo Okada (The famous Japanese billionaire,
founder of Aruze. The company Universal Lease Co., Ltd (at present –
Aruze) was founded in 1969 year. Since then it has undergone many
changes, and in 2005 the branch became Aruze. Now this game concern is
one of the largest manufacturers of all sorts of gaming products. In
addition, the organization has a license to manufacture and supply slot machines to casinos in Nevada, Mississippi and New Jersey.).
19) Kazuo Inamori (philanthropist, Japanese
entrepreneur and the founder of Kyocera Corporation and KDDI
Corporation. In 1959, at age 27, he established Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd.
(now Kyocera Corporation), which has grown into a multinational
high-tech conglomerate employing more than 66,000 people, supplying a
wide range of products including cellular phones, office document
equipment, solar power products and ceramic components. In 1984, he
founded DDI Corporation (now KDDI), which has grown to become Japan’s
second-largest telecommunication services provider.).
20) Akio Nitori (created in his own country a huge
furniture company, studying the experience of Americans and their way of
life. “America – admits Nitori – will always be our teacher.”).
