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Auckland Airport Fuel Shortage Crisis

   

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AUCKLAND AIRPORTFUEL SHORTAGECRISIS

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK...............................................................................................................................................31. Providing detail and background of the Challenge and its impact on the clients or customersor organization.............................................................................................................................32. Listing five solutions for the above mentioned challenge.......................................................43. Identifying two Probable solution and the remaining possiblesolution...................................54. Selection of the effective solution for the further analysis along with reasons for itspreference....................................................................................................................................65. A detailed SWOT Analysis:....................................................................................................76.Hierarchical decomposition plan..............................................................................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTIONIt is very crucial to address the current workplace challenge in order to resolve the issueon the right time. Furthermore, for addressing workplace challenge, management is required tofind the potential solutions for the same. Moreover, solutions can be obtained by analyzing theenvironment and nature of the problems (Grueber and et al., 2011). Thus, this report describesthe development of series of 5 conceptswhich demonstrates the potential solution for addressingthe workplace challenges. Moreover, in deep the report describes the nature of challenge and itsoverall impact over the customers/ organization. After description 5 solutions for resolving thechallenge have been listed down. Along with that, identification of 2 probable and the restpossible solutions have been done (Auckland Airport jet fuel crisis, 2017). On using the probablesolution, SWOT analysis have been carried out and then hierarchal decomposition plan havebeen laid down. This has been done in order to avoid the workplace challenges at the startingstage only.TASK1. Providing detail and background of the Challenge and its impact on the clients or customers ororganizationAuckland Airport which is located in New Zealand is facing the current challenge of fuelcrisis. This is a major challenge for the organization and due to which flights are gettingcancelled which is highly impacting the customers flying to various destinations. Further, thenature of this challenge is severe and it requires to be addressed on an urgent basis (Treangenand Salzberg, 2012). The reason for this crisis is the cut pipeline which is a major cause for a jetfuel shortage at Auckland Airport. Further, the information has been received that a fuel pipelinewhich supplies fuel to Auckland so far had been damaged. Moreover, a 168 kilometer longpipeline is out of action since 14th September, 2017which used tosupplyjet fuel, petrol and dieselfrom the Marsden Point refinery in Northland to tanks in Wiri, Auckland. It is believed that thepipeline is hit by a digger which is being used for extracting swamp kauri near Ruakaka. On thesame day, the customers of pipeline that are BP, Mobil and Z Energy and also the EnergyMinister Judith Collins were alerted regarding the situation. Moreover, Prime Minister Bill

English have been received a “high level” briefing on Sunday. However, the damage hasoccurred months ago but finally failed on 14th September. Moreover, 70,000 litersof fuel gotspilled despite the shut-down of the pipe within 15 minutes.This crisis which has been caused due to cut pipeline had a very worst impact on thecustomers as well as on the organization. Due to this crisis, flights are getting cancelled suddenlyand customers are informed on short notice. Customers who are travelling for emergency and forother reasons are suffering a lot (Zeng and et al., 2010). Moreover, the mails and couriers fromoverseas are also not getting delivered due to this issue. In addition to this, reputation of flights isgetting down due to this crisis. Along with that, Airport’s reputation is getting degraded as theywere unaware about the issue from long time. Due to this carelessness, customers are sufferingbecause they cannot fly to their destinations. 2. Listing five solutions for the above mentioned challengeThere are 5 solutions which have been suggested to the company in order to address thecurrent challenge at the workplace. It is essential for the company to address the issue on anurgent basis in order to eliminate the impact which is coming over the customers as well as onthe organization. These 5 solutions for the Auckland Airport fuel crisis have been listed asfollows:For addressing the crucial issue that is stoppage of all the flights, airport authority mustaddress the issue on immediate basis. For this aspect, airport authority should import thefuel from other origin on an urgent basis. However, this will add the cost to the firm butwill resolve the solution for temporary basis (Taleb and Kunz, 2012). They can gather thefuel from nearest place and store them in their tanks until the pipeline does not getrepaired. The airport authority can use the oil in little quantity and move the customers on theirother airports of the country so that they can reach their destination immediately. Bydoing this, the airport authority can save on the fuel and more flights could be avail tothem in order to empty the pending slots of customers (Taleb, 2014). In order to eliminate the impact over the customers who have been informed on a shortnotice, airport authority must provide hem accommodation and food so that they can restthere until the next flight does not take off. This will help in reducing the bad impact on

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