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The widespread job losses and plummeting home values that characterized the Great Recession scared many Americans into being more careful with their money.
Some consumers have shied away from buying goods they don't really need. Middle-income Americans have started shopping at thrift stores out of financial necessity or to pursue great deals. And people have been reducing their credit card balances.
Delta Air Lines, the world's second-largest airline, is the commercial equivalent of a disciplined consumer who only spends money on goods that are important to him or her.
Delta, which operates a majority of the flights out of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, on Wednesday reported a second-quarter net loss of $168 million. Its quarterly operating profit was $586 million, but special charges that included fuel hedge losses pushed Delta into the loss column.
One of the more intriguing aspects of Delta's conference call with analysts and reporters was the discussion of Delta's debt-reduction strategy.
The Atlanta-based carrier paid down $374 million in debt during the second quarter. Its debt has fallen from about $17 billion to $12.1 billion in recent years, and Delta management is pushing to get debt to a $10 billion level.
Delta is a huge enterprise, which had $18.1 billion in operating revenue for the first half of 2012.
JP Morgan Chase analyst Jamie Baker asked Delta CEO Richard Anderson on Wednesday's call whether the carrier would be "tempted to fall off the wagon" and go on a "growth bender" once Delta's debt drops to $10 billion.
"We're not going on any benders around here, period," replied Anderson. He emphasized that Delta is focused on efforts to "de-risk and de-lever the business," which is precisely what many consumers have been doing with their personal balance sheets.
"We're going to continue to grind down that net debt number," Anderson said.
Just as consumers derive financial benefits from strong credit ratings, Delta's financial discipline caught the attention of Fitch Ratings in mid-June. Fitch upgraded a Delta credit rating, stating it "considers Delta to be currently the strongest player in the much improved airline industry in the U.S."
Outperforming the industry average
It noted that Delta's unit revenues have "outperformed the industry average" for more than a year and that it has carefully matched capacity, airline seats on the market, with consumer demand.
Delta operates more than 13,000 daily flights and during the months of April, May and June, 85.1 percent of the seats on its planes were filled.
Fitch emphasized that Delta's financial prowess also is linked to its "enhanced network and synergies from the Northwest merger, product improvements and significant share gains in premium corporate customers."
Delta acquired Eagan-based Northwest in October 2008, on the eve of the last presidential election.
The airline is investing $3 billion in product and service upgrades and it recently started flying out of Atlanta's new international terminal. It also has established a new hub at LaGuardia in New York.
But there might be some copies of "The New Frugality" by Chris Farrell floating around corporate headquarters. Instead of leasing new airplanes, Delta recently consummated a deal with Southwest Airlines and Boeing to lease Boeing 717s. Those airplanes are being operated by AirTrain Airways, which Southwest acquired in a merger deal.
Delta will be able to get rid of many inefficient 50-seat regional jets and replace them with the Boeing 717s, which seat 117 passengers and have first-class cabins.
While Delta's Anderson prefers to be a leader, not a follower, in the airline industry, he recently surprised the business world when he decided that Delta should buy an oil refinery. The Texas native didn't want his business model to be so vulnerable to the volatility in oil prices.
A Delta subsidiary is gearing up a Pennsylvania refinery to begin production in the next few months. Delta management projects this enterprise will save the airline $300 million a year on fuel expenses.
All of these moves are designed to create ongoing profitability for Delta, which has taken a trip through bankruptcy along with other big U.S. carriers. To maintain profitability, Delta intends to keep its fares high enough to cover its costs and a profit margin.
Delta is hearing complaints from some consumers who think its fares are too expensive, but it is also receiving kudos within the airline industry for being agile in shifting its capacity up or down to match market demand.
Delta has built a reputation for seizing and creating business opportunities. Or, as Anderson said on Wednesday, "At Delta, we will continue to always control our destiny."
I recently facilitated a famous entrepreneur's book launch where one world-weary journalist questioned the author's optimism, suggesting a better approach would be to prepare for the worst.
Any devotee of personal development training will tell you that to expect the worst is the first step towards guaranteed disaster. But the entrepreneur's intrinsically rose-tinted glasses do need to be tempered with reality during hard times.
When the recession first hit I realised that my industry, meetings and events, would be adversely affected, as it represented a discretionary spend for most companies. I therefore spent significant time at my trade...
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My conclusion was to spend time broadening my own offers to existing customers and to simultaneously seek out new products, services and markets. The overall challenge was clearly around sales, particularly how to target those customers who still had money to spend.
James Stevenson started Virtual Aviation with £3,000 capital in 1997 after learning to fly but deciding against pursuing a career as a commercial pilot. The idea behind the company was to enable aviation enthusiasts to experience the thrill of flying a big jet.
He persuaded several airlines, including Virgin Atlantic and British Airways, to sell spare simulator time that he leased out to professional pilots seeking certification.
However, the recession caused airlines to abruptly halt all pilot recruitment, not even replacing pilots that had retired.
As Virtual Aviation was unable to influence the airlines directly, they turned their attention to the growing corporate event market. As an expensive and discretionary spend, they realised this would be a challenging market, so they specifically targeted only those who could afford to pay.
It is the natural reaction of most companies to reduce their prices in hard times. But those that can demonstrate.they have a unique and valued service should always find ways of increasing their prices while simultaneously increasing the quality of their delivery.
Stevenson immediately discontinued their cheapest offering and focused on doubling the average order value and increasing the average lifetime value of a customer. They put every effort into increasing customer satisfaction and encouraging referrals, while increasing the value of repeat business from 50% to 80%. This, in turn, has reduced their overall marketing spend to only 5% of sales.
They noticed that their bookings soon moved from customers looking to provide teambuilding for their staff to those using the simulators to entertain existing and potential clients. The result is that in September of this year, in the deepest recession that many of can remember, they broke two sales records: the best day and the best week ever.
Many of us of a certain age are amazed by the animation quality of contemporary computer games, but understand that they are designed for teenagers with appropriate dexterity and quick reactions. But to sit in an Airbus 330 is to experience probably the best computer game available outside of the US Military.
A 23-year-old ex-director of MDLR airlines committed suicide at her northwest Delhi home late on Sunday night. The deceased has been identified as Geetika Sharma who lived in Ashok Vihar area.
The police have recovered a suicide note from the spot in which the ex-MDLR employee has blamed Haryana minister of state, Gopal Kanda, for allegedly harassing her mentally.
Senior officers and family members confirmed this and the Delhi Police have registered a case of abetment to suicide against Kanda under section 306 of IPC.
Geetika quickly rose up to the post of director in the company before quitting the job last month.
In her suicide note, Geetika had claimed that Kanda was mentally torturing her after she left the job in his company. She also wrote that he was pressurizing her to join his firm again.
"They have broken my trust. They have cheated me. Due to this, I am committing suicide," said the suicide note.
Geetika's brother Gaurav alleged that Kanda often visited their home after her sister joined MDLR Airlines, which he owned, as an air hostess around one and a half years back.
He further said, "When the airline's operation was suspended, Kanda offered her another job. She refused that offer and joined Emirates in Dubai. Kanda then wrote a letter to Emirates claimimg that Geetika was a woman of bad character. This led to her termination from the airline. Kanda also told her that she will have to work only in his company and nowhere else."
"I have believed these people, but they are not trustworthy. She has said that whatever has happened with her, it shouldn't happen with anyone else. To save herself from these circumstances, she was taking this step," her brother said quoting the suicide note.
"After my sister quit the job, Kanda came home again and persuaded her to rejoin. When she did not agree, he offered her a job in another company owned by him called Supersonic in Gurgaon," Gaurav alleged.
In the early hours of Sunday police received a call regarding the incident and rushed to the spot.
"She was found hanging from the ceiling. We rushed her to the hospital where she was declared brought dead. Her body was sent for post-mortem. We will be able to ascertain further details after the autopsy report arrives," said a senior police officer.
Meanwhile, senior cops, including DCP northwest P Karunakaran, reached the spot and began investigations.
The cops are analyzing the call records of the deceased and have seized her mobile phone along with her personal diary.
The suicide note is being examined too and the seizures will be examined by the forensic experts.
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You might be dreading getting started on a difficult task, and procrastination can only make your dread worse! Instead, take charge and decide to conquer that one big task you hate to do – and the rest of your day will be smooth sailing.
Keeping with the “fun” theme here, you can also set aside some time to goof around with your children or family pets and enjoy the same benefits described above. However, be sure to really let go and get into the spirit of it; pretending to have a good time while feeling stressed about the work you “should” be doing won’t accomplish anything.
