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SWOT ANALYSIS, TWOS
ANALYSIS, PEST ANALYSIS,
PORTERS FIVE, BCG
MATRIX AND STRATEGIC
MAP
Introduction
Malaysian Airline System Berhad is theprimary airlineofMalaysia. Malaysia
Airlines (MAS) operates flights from Kuala Lumpur International Airportmainly
and with a secondary hub atKota KinabaluandKuching. From the report, the
strategic management of Malaysia Airlines is analysed. The report is
produced for Mr Mathew Teale. Most of the resources in this report are based
on report and journal. Besides, articles and newspapers are also being used
as the secondary resources. Gather from latest data, Malaysia Airlines has
revenue worth as much as RM13 billion. In stategy management, there are
Strategy Analysis, Strategy Formulation and Strategy Implementation which
are the process to overcome that external factor which consist of objective to
fulfil(Hambrick, 2007). Under the effect of globalization, the world has
changed in every sector and those changes had influenced most of the
corporation activities with obstacles to execute their strategy. A company's
finances will be affected if their management fails to formulate and
implement the most efficient and suitable strategy. Strategy analysis,
strategy formulation and strategy implementation are the fundamentals to
solve negative factors regardless what is the problems.
Background
Malaysia Airlines was founded in 1937 through an ideaby the Alfred Holt'sOcean
Steamship Company in Liverpool work together with the Imperial Airways in from
Britain and Straits Steamship Company in Singapore. This had build the outcome of
Malayan Airways Limited(MAL) on the same year. As usual, this airline faced different
types of industrial challenges throughout these seven decades. Therefore, the
company had improved and repackaged their image and services. Malaysia Airlines
started their flight services originated in Subang Airport and later relocate to Kuala
Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). Malaysia Airlines serve different class of
customers in society pyramid. Therefore, Malaysia Airlines provide different class of
seating's which are first class, business class, and economic class. According to
Malaysia Airlines Annual Report on 2012, incredible loss of RM481,457,000 was hit
after the loss on 2011 which was two billion. This shows the in capabilities of
management in Malaysia Airlines to manage the company. Therefore, the
management needs to be rearranged and restructured. Besides, Malaysia Airlines are
facing more competitors in the industry such as Air Asia. To overcome this challenge,
Malaysia Airlines tried to upkeep with their competitors by providing high quality of
services in order to win customer's faith and loyalty so that they could have stable
coming back customers. Their strategy was a success and this can be seen when
several awards are awarded by Sky-trax UK and World Travel Awards. The awards are
the Asias Leading Airline(2011), Asias Leading Business Class Airline (2010) and Five
SWOT
Analysis
Strengths
Opportunitie SWOT
s
Analysis
Weaknesses
1. Relying Heavily on
International Onward Moving
Traffic.
2. Very Little Domestic Traffic
and limited market share
growth.
3. Malaysia Airlines exercised a
financial restructuring which
resulted
badly and thus
Threats
company bared huge costs of
1. Rising Fuel Costs.
that which was the biggest
2. Changing govt, Policies and
weakness of
it ever
had. bodies.
regulations
regulatory
3. Competitive Pricing of the
competitors are lowering profit
margins.
4. Increasing Competition in SE
Market.
5. Share Price decrease 11% and
market price of the company
40% in July 2014. Natural
Calamity affect a big think for
this industry example
5 Malaysia
Airlines Flight MH370.
OPPORTUNITIES
EXTERNA
L
INTERNA
L
STRENGTHS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
THREATS
1. Increasing Global
Presence.
2. More Routes
internationally to
popular destinations.
3. More services and
choices to customers at
airport facilities.
4. Acquisition of other
airlines to enhance
market position.
SO STRATEGIES
ST STRATEGIES
BCG MATRIX
MEDIUM
HIGH
LOW
MEDIUM
STAR
II
Investment
Market
penetration
Market
development
Product
development
QUESTION MARKS
I
LOW
HIGH
Diversification
Deployment
CASH COW
III
Retrenchment
Liquidation
DOGS
IV
Brand recognition is
important.
High capital required.
Bargaini
ng
Power
of
Supplier
s: High
Numbers of alternatives the
consumer.
MAS maintenance staff are
experienced with Boeings aircraft.
For fuel, the bargaining power of
suppliers is not really high since in
Malaysia there is only little petrol
organization and the price is set by
the government.
Threat
of New
Entrant
s: Low
Rivalry
Among
Established
Companies
: High
- Rival: Air
Asia, SIA,
Thai Airways
Competitive
Pricing
Substitut
e
Products
: Medium
to High
Porter 5 Forces
Strong brand name
grant pricing power in
most markets.
Brand loyalty
Bargaini
ng Power
of
Buyers:
Medium
to High
Malaysia Airlines can use its
bargaining power of consumer to
bargain the aircraft price.
Competing in the aircraft
manufacturing industry.
PESTLE ANALYSIS
Political
Economics
Social/Cultural
Technology
Legal
Expensive landing charges at gateway airports like - Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Tightly regulated aviation market by bilateral air rights agreements
Environmental
Political
Macroenvironments
Micro-environment
and industry
Economi
c
Social
en
nm
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vi
En l
ta
ol
n
h
Tec
y
og
Legal
STRATEGY MAPPING
EXTENT OF
SERVICE
DIVERSITY
MAS provides
various
services:
Airline
Service
Aircraft
Maintenance
Service
Repair and
overhaul
(MRO)
Aircraft
Handling
EXTENT OF
MARKET
PENETRATION
MAS operates
flights in various
routes and
country:
Southeast Asia
North Asia
South Asia
Middle-east
Australia
Europe
EXTENT OF MARKET
SEGMENTATION
MAS focused on the
following segments:
Business Segment
Government &
International
Organisations
Leisure Travellers
Migrated Personal &
Leisure Travellers
European Personal &
Leisure Travellers
Seasonal Holiday
Travellers
EXTENT OF MARKET
GROWTH
DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS
USED