BrisConnections (A): The Vested Interests of an Australian Toll Road

Region Other Regions

Industry Airlines/Aviation, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

BrisConnections (B): Death by Instalment Plan

By Pierre Hillion, Bowen White

BrisConnections won the bid to construct the Airport Link toll road under a BOOT (Build, Own, Operate and Transfer) PPP model just as the global financial crisis took hold in 2008. Soon the project would take its place among a string of Australian toll road project failures.

Published 28 Apr 2014

Reference 5970

Length 24 page(s)

Region Other Regions

Industry Airlines/Aviation, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Virgin Blue - Fighting National Champions

By Daniel Traca

This case describes the turmoil in the Australian airline industry, after the entry of low cost carriers Virgin Blue and Impulse in 2000. The events led to a dramatic consolidation by 2002, with fears of even greater threats to competition than before deregulation. The case looks at the challenges to industry regulators, as well and the companies involved.

Published 01 Jan 2004

Reference 5179

Length 19 page(s)

Region Other Regions

Industry Airlines/Aviation

Re-organizing and Privatizing German State Enterprises (A)

By Douglas Webber, Mark Lehrer

The case portrays the political process by which, in the first half of the 1990s, decisions were taken in Germany to re-organize and/or to privatize the state-owned airlines, telecommunications and railways enterprises.

Published 11 Jan 1997

Reference 4689

Length 32 page(s)

Region Europe

Industry Telecommunications, Airlines/Aviation, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Re-organizing and Privatizing German State Enterprises (B)

By Douglas Webber, Mark Lehrer

The case portrays the political process by which, in the first half of the 1990s, decisions were taken in Germany to re-organize and/or to privatize the state-owned airlines, telecommunications and railways enterprises.

Published 01 Nov 1997

Reference 4689

Length 2 page(s)

Region Europe

Industry Telecommunications, Airlines/Aviation, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

The Boeing 777

By Robert Bruner

In October 1990, the Boeing Company announced that it was launching a new aircraft model, the 777. The task for students in this case is to evaluate the 777 against a financial standard. The students must estimate a weighted average cost of capital (WACC) with which to evaluate the project IRRs.

Published 01 Jan 1994

Reference 4384

Length 27 page(s)

Region North America

Industry Airlines/Aviation, Logistics and Supply Chain

Guiness Peat Aviation (GPA) - The Flotation

By Kevin Kaiser

The case covers the initial public equity offering of GPA in 1992. The offering was a failure. The case requires students to analyse the company, the industry, and decide on whether and how to structure the flotation.

Published 01 Jan 1994

Reference 4304

Length 26 page(s)

Region Global

Industry Airlines/Aviation, Logistics and Supply Chain

The Privatisation of British Airways (A)

By H. Landis Gabel

British Airways British Caledonian Airways This is the principal case in a set of three (with British Airways and British Caledonian Airways) that describes the situation just prior to the privatisation of British Airways when the UK government was considering major structural and regulatory changes to the industry.

Published 01 Jan 1986

Reference 3033

Length 32 page(s)

Region Europe

Industry Airlines/Aviation, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

The Privatisation of British Airways (B)

By H. Landis Gabel

British Airways British Caledonian Airways This is the principal case in a set of three (with British Airways and British Caledonian Airways) that describes the situation just prior to the privatisation of British Airways when the UK government was considering major structural and regulatory changes to the industry.

Published 01 Oct 1994

Reference 3033

Length 7 page(s)

Region Europe

Industry Airlines/Aviation, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad