Sustaining Airline Profitability. Strategic Management and Leadership

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, Northumbria University, course: Bachelor of Arts in Human Resources Management, language: English, abstract: The commercial airline is an extremely competitive, safety-sensitive, high technology service industry. People, employees and customers, not products and machines, must be an arena of organization's core competence.

Sustaining airline profitability, ensuring safety and security, and developing adequate air transportation infrastructure are the important challenges to the airlines.

In the following chapters, the strategic reasons that lead Singapore Airline (SIA) success will be discuss with strategic frameworks.