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Sara Lair

New American Airlines CEO vows to make merger work - The Washington Post - 2 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...3-a7b4-4a75ebc432ab_story.html

shared by Sara Lair on 10 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • American Airlines and US Airways seem an unlikely couple, even to the man who will lead the combined company after their merger on Monday.
  • We know that something around 25 percent of our customers will go to the lowest price irrespective of time or inconvenience. In a low-margin business like ours, you can’t give up 25 percent of your customers, so we have to match on price.
  • Will you still compete chiefly on price?
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • What’s the new American’s frequent-flier program going to look like?
  • Nothing yet to announce. What we do know is this: Customers immediately will be able to combine their miles and use their miles to fly on a larger network.
  • Victorita Paun on 11 Dec 13
     
    This information highlighted by you lends itself to a short discussion on the law of demand and perhaps market structures and types of competition (the last two being topics which have yet to be covered - from what I understand). I do not believe it will be enough to meet the word count requiements for this assignment. However, there is a section in the article mentioning taxes and that may be a more consistent topic to comment on together with perhaps the explanation of your second excerpt selected above using demand elasticity.
Sara Lair

Microsoft Produces a Winner in Tablets - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...nd-from-microsoft-no-less.html

shared by Sara Lair on 10 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • As one might expect from any successful device birthed in the Windows realm, competitors have quickly emerged.
  • Perhaps competing manufacturers will catch up. Maybe Nokia, now that it is being bought by Microsoft, will build a better keypad.
  • Victorita Paun on 11 Dec 13
     
    This is a rather long article and given that theory of the firm is a topic that has yet to be covered I would reccomend finding an article that provides more meat for economic comment.
Sara Lair

Microsoft Produces a Winner in Tablets - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...nd-from-microsoft-no-less.html

shared by Sara Lair on 10 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • I can’t be the only person who needs fewer gadgets in his life.
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