Controllable and noncontrollable factors in airlines industries?

Answer 1

The controllable factors would be maintanence, labor, and overhead.

The uncontrollable are weather, passengers, and the economy.

Answer 2

This depends on many things.

What is controllable for one air line may or may not be controllable for the other.

But most of the time with little imagination and lot of ingenuity the uncontrollable can also be controlled to some extent.

eg. Southwest Arline had bought fuel futures so when all other airlines were paying a going rate of of fuel around $ 3.00/unit they were getting there fuel at around $ 1.50 per/unit. So when every one was loosing money they still had the profits.

Answer 3

Controllable factors include:
Business Model including type of aircraft, non-fuel operating costs, lease Vs buy plans, maintenance plans, depreciation costs of bought aircraft and capital equipment. Passenger Delight.

Uncontrollable factors are:
Fuel and landing costs
Weather
Local Riots and political situation
Passenger Behaviour
Local regulatory environment and economic policies
International Economic conditions

Answer 4

Controllable:

Wages bill.
Maintenance costs.
Routes and Hubs.
Capital expenditure.
Depreciation costs of capital equipment.
Passenger satisfaction
employee competence.


Uncontrollable:
Fuel costs.
Equipment costs.
flights cancelled due to weather.
flights cancelled due to other unforseen circumstances.
Actions by a stranger affecting passenger confidence.
World economics.
interest rates.
aircraft downtime as a result of unforseen airworthyness directives.
staff turnover (to an extent).