!" I Harivansh Verma declare that this project titled ´ PROMOTIONAL STRATEGY OF INDIAN AIRLINESµ is an original work done by me under the guidance of Dr. Devashish Bose ( Director) . I further declare that it is my original work as a part of my academic course . ë Executive summary ë Objectives ë Introduction ë History of Indian Airlines ë Revenue for Indian Airlines ë SWOT analysis of Indian Airlines ë Marketing strategy ë Marketing initiatives ë Concequenses of marketing strategy ë conclusion ë The current millennium has unfolded new business rules , most the significant of them being that company has to constantly look into mind`s of customer . Customer loyalty play`s a significant role and today securing that loyalty requires quality at right price and of course last but not the least i.e creating awarness about their service .It was a great experience in collecting information of such a reputed company , which has in it the ability to retain costumer I feel great pleasure in doing my project ´ PROMOTIONAL STRATEGY OF INDIAN AIRLINESµ . The whole hearted support of the exeutives of the Indian Airlines has enabled me to complete this project. This project is all about the ´Marketing initiatives taken by Indian Airlinesµ with a rapidly changing technology , social , economic , political- legal and the trend toward`s globalization of business and industry , emerging of various private airlines ; effective promotional strategy has become a very challening job . V To Identify the service offered by Indian Airlines. V To study the promotional strategy followed by Indian Airlines ë The erstwhile Limited or currently known as Indian, was India·s first state owned domestic airline. Indian Airlines was set up under the aegis of federal Union Ministry of Civil Aviation and based in New Delhi. Its main bases were the international airports in Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata and New Delhi ë Till 1990, enjoyed a monopoly in the Indian air space. However, The economic liberalisation process initiated by the Government of India ended Indian Airlines' dominance of India's domestic air transport industry. Indian Airlines faced tough competition from private airlines like Jet Airways ë or is completely owned by the Government of India and together, with its subsidiary Alliance Air, Indian carries a total of over 7.5 million passengers annually. Indian joined hands with Air India in 2007 and are collectively known as Air India. Indian is referred to all the domestic flights, while Air India refers to all the international flights. ë The new airline's headquarters is stationed in Mumbai, and have a fleet of more than130 aircrafts ë Indian Airlines, in its new of Air India can be identified with its key color as orange and a contemporary graphic representation of a flying swan with the placed inside it, the imagery depicting traditional Indian hospitality and service ë It was set up on June 15, 1953 after legislation came into force to nationalise the entire airline industry in India. Two new national airlines were to be formed along the same lines as happened in Britain with BOAC and BEA. Air India International took over international routes and Indian Airlines Corporation took over the domestic and regional routes. ë Eight former independent domestic airlines; Deccan Airways, Airways - India, Bharat Airways, Himalayan Aviation, Kalinga Air Lines, Indian National Airways, Air India, Air Services of India, were merged to form the new domestic national carrier. Indian Airlines Corporation inherited a large fleet of 74 DC-3 Dakotas, 12 Vikings, 3 DC-4s and various smaller types from the 8 airlines that made it up ë Today nearly 80% of the customer are provided by the travel agent to the Indian Airlines and these travel agent are 2000 in number spanning the whole country . Indian Airlines provides 5% and 7% commission on domestic and international fares respectively to the travel agent . Ô d r d
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? ë Aircraftutilization has increased. ë Productivity of pilot rised. ë Increased international operation . ë Employee morale. ë Passengers perception improves ë The healthy competition of domestic air lines has set new trends in the quality of service. Previously in the monopolistic environment of Indian Airlines the quality and the desire to win over the constraints was totally missing . With the up coming of Jet Airways there is sea changes in the quality of service and the pride of the job . M Hence today it is the matter of great significance that the Indian Airlines staff now cares about the passenger comfort and takes pains to see that the flight is on time . ë Advertising has brought awarness among the people regarding Indian Airlines ë It is seen that people who are aware of the airline are not just verbally aware but also prefer to travel by that air lines . This depicts that the effect of advertising of is directly propotional to the uses to the airlines. ë It is a fact that it is mandatory for the government officials to travel by indian airines . d Due to constraint of time , a larger number of topic were not chosen. d Marketing strategy of a company is indeed a closely guarded secret especially in the face of stiff competition as in the case of the airlines sector in India . Therefore to extract information on the marketing strategy was a difficult task .
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