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Essay on U.S Airline Industry
Introduction
"Delta Airlines is a leading US carrier, behind AMR's American Airlines and UAL's United Airlines. The company is working to cut costs and still compete for both domestic and international traffic. On its own, through subsidiary Comair and other Delta Connection regional carriers, and via code sharing, Delta serves about 450 destinations in some 95 counties. In the US, Delta operates from hubs in Atlanta, Cincinnati, New York, and Salt Lake City. Globally, Delta is part of the SkyTeam marketing alliance."1
Due to the declining airline industry many airlines took drastic measures in order to cover the losses faced by them. Delta airlines first introduced its aggressive cost management decisions in 2002, which included the outsourcing decision of outsourcing thousands of jobs in order to make the airline cover the losses it is facing since the September 11 incident.
Outsourcing has become a popular term, since the companies have started realizing the benefits and lucrative advantages attached to it. Planned and undertaken in a right way "outsourcing" not only provide a company with financial benefits but also leads to improvement in the performance of employees. "Outsourcing (or contracting out) is often defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production within a business to an external entity (such as a subcontractor) that specializes in that operation. Outsourcing is a business decision that is often made to lower costs or focus on competencies. A related term, off shoring, means transferring work to another country, typically overseas. Off shoring is similar to outsourcing when companies hire overseas subcontractors, but differs when companies transfer work to the same company in another country."
The Airline is also off shoring some of its functions to Asian countries. Although the trend of off shoring is also increasing which has added many financial benefits to the outsourcing....
