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Delta Airlines Strategic Analysis

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company in recent years has improved under the leadership of the current Chief Executive Leo Mullin who is turning the company around (Hammonds, 2000). In the three years he has  been in charge there were improvements in profits and operations, leading to a position where Delta is the largest US carrier, and the second largest carrier in the world  when measured in terms of passenger numbers (Delta, 2003, M2 PressWire, 2002,). If measured in terms of revenue it is the third largest globally (Delta, 2003). One way in which  the company is turning its position around, which has also be seen as relatively weak in the current market conditions where there is lowered demand and remaining high overheads has  been by looking at the value chain and the way in which it manages its value net. A value net analysis looks at the way that the company interacts with  different elements of the value chain, from customers at one end to suppliers at the other., as well as the strategic partners. The value net is an area where competitive  advantages many be gained and a great deal of value added. Although as company along with its subsidiary companies; Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc. and Comair, Inc. fly internationally to  forty six cities in thirty two countries as well as two hundred and nineteen cities within the domestic area located in forty six states (Delta, 2003), this may still be  seen as limiting, as passengers will want to travel further than this, and many prefer to book their flights with a single carrier. Other carriers also have the same problem.  One of the first areas of the value net that can be examined is that of a strategic alliance with other competitors.