Ryanair Porters Five Forces 2021 Case Study
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of the case, students should be able to:
- Use Porter's five forces model to analyze an industry on the basis of the five competitive forces.
- Analyze the UK airline industry and how the five forces have affected Ryanair and rival firms like EasyJet, Norwegian Air, British Airways, etc., and the impact on industry structure, attractiveness, and profitability.
- Understand how Ryanair has managed to defend against intense competition from EasyJet, and Norwegian Air and the strategies it uses to create 'blue oceans' that are defensible, helping it capture market share and maintain competitive advantage.
Analyse Ryanair through the lens of Porters five forces to assess how the five forces affect it and the Airline industry in the UK.
- See also, Ryanair Pestel Analysis 2021
- See also, Ryanair Swot Analysis 2021
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Porter's Five Forces examines an industry’s profitability and attractiveness based on the level of rivalry among competitors, barriers to entry, bargaining power of buyers and suppliers, and the threat of substitutes (Johnson et al 2017). According to Porter’s when all the forces are high, then the industry is unprofitable because powerful buyers, suppliers, high competitive rivalry, as well as the threat of new entrants and substitutes squeeze profitability (Grant 2016; Johnson et al 2017). In this section, we leverage Porter's five forces framework to help us to recognize and analyze the important forces that determine the profitability of the airline industry. Using Porter's five forces, we will evaluate the nature of competitiveness in the UK airline industry and how it is impacting Ryanair.