American Airlines

American Airlines Marketing cases AMERICAN AIRLINES 1. Issues 2. American Airlines' objectives 3. The airline industry 4. Market 5. Consumer needs 6. Brand image 7. Distribution system 8. Pricing 9. Marketing related strategies 10. Assumptions and risks 1-<Tab/>Issues The main issue of this case is the lack of profits of the airline industry, an industry that should be more than profitable due to the large amount of customers, the necessity of using airlines' services and the high prices charged …

…forms such as, fare reductions, upgrades to better classes or even free tickets. 9-<Tab/>Assumptions and risks In my opinion all of this strategies are brilliant, the only risk I see is in hubbing, customers sometimes don't want spend additional time changing planes, there is the risk of missing connecting planes, luggage may get lost, etc. In the rest of the strategies I don't see any risks what so ever.