Incentives for Staff
o Have days Off
o Discount tickets for air travel
o Have family days
o Couple of parties a year
o Make staff feel important
o Commission
Employing Staff
o Employee ambitious young pilots
o Working for Watani will be a good experience for them
o They will except minimum pay
o Employee pilots from the aviation college
o Watani is a great stepping stone for young pilots to go on to better and bigger things if they want to, or they can stay with Watani and feel appreciated
o Higher staff which come from the designated country
Low-Cost Carriers
Low-cost carrier business is defined by three key elements:
Simple products:
No meals
No drinks or snacks for free
Narrow seating (greater capacity)
Allocated seats
Free-seating
No frequent flyer programs
Functioning:
Non-business passengers
Leisure traffic
Price-conscious business passengers
Short-haul point-to-point traffic with high frequencies
Aggressive marketing
Secondary airports
Low-cost operating costs:
Low wages,
Low airport fees;
Low-costs for maintenance,
Cockpit training and standby crew due to homogeneous fleet
High resource productivity:
Short ground waits due to simple boarding processes,
No air freight,
No hub services,
Short cleaning times;
Lean sales (high percentage of online sales).
All these elements when combined together bring several advantages to the low-cost carriers’ markets, customers, and destinations. With low-cost carriers, networks and routes are designed or redesigned around the needs of the local passengers, thus making connections a byproduct of operations.
Suggestion about what to offer customers
• Offer at least 2 quality hot meals at reasonable price AED 15-22(maybe traditional middle eastern food)
• Soft drinks at AED 3
• Offers tea, coffee
• Offer free nuts or any snack
• Offer them juices as well for AED 3
• Portable DVD players...