Detailed Marketing Plan for Malaysian Airlines (MBA Module)

This presentation outlines a marketing plan for Malaysian Airlines, focusing on market segmentation, target market analysis, and consumer behavior. The plan details how Malaysian Airlines segments its market based on demographic, psychographic, geographic, and behavioral factors, targeting consumers aged 14-35 and beyond. It explores consumer behavior through psychological, social, and self-actualization needs. The presentation also discusses marketing strategies encompassing product, price, place, and promotion, with objectives including revenue and market share growth over a three-year period. The presentation also includes the background of Malaysia Aviation Group and its services, marketing mix strategies, and positioning statements. The analysis emphasizes the importance of understanding consumer behavior and implementing effective marketing strategies to increase profitability and achieve organizational goals.

Slide 1: Executive Summary
The main aim of this study is to present the marketing plan with respect to Malaysian Airline.
Moreover, Malaysian Airlines will focus on these factors like demographic, psychographic,
geographical, and behavioral factor and operate their business at the global level. As per the
demographic factor, the organization mainly focuses on the consumer who comes in the age
group of 14 to more than 35. Malaysian Airlines could segment their market by considering
different elements like national, international, and regional to capture the attention of a huge
number of consumers and reach a valid conclusion. Malaysian Airlines could concentrate on
the classification with the loyal class. It could critically evaluate factors that effect consumer
behavior like physiological, protection and security, love and belongingness, esteem, self-
actualization, social factor, reference groups, and social classes. In addition, it discusses
different marketing strategies for operating the business like product, price, place, and
promotion strategies. It also discusses many marketing objectives that are related to revenue,
price, and promotion tool. For this, an organization has decided 3 years of the time period to
meet the organizational task.
Slide 2: Introduction

This marketing plan demonstrates the Market Segmentation and Target market analysis for
Malaysian Airlines. This report will discuss target consumers in favor of Malaysian Airlines.
Moreover, it also critically evaluate the Consumer Behaviour of Malaysian Airlines targeted
customers. It also discusses different strategies of marketing that leads to increase the
profitability of the firm. Further, it discusses marketing objectives for Malaysian Airlines that
will be accomplished in the upcoming 3 years. At last, it also discusses the marketing mix
actin plan for 3 years with respect to Malaysian Airlines.
Slide 3: Malaysia Aviation Group background

MAG (Malaysia Aviation Group) offers its different services to their potential consumers. It
could segment their services in certain groups such as Ground Services, Aircraft Leasing,
Talent Development, and Transportation Services. This group has offered transparent
services at the global level as it could be effective in accomplishing the aim and objectives of
research matter. It assures profit and loss accountability and solves their diverse aspects by
considering new tools in the business operation. In addition, it is examined that the profit and
loss account of the firm relies on a different value of assets. It could facilitate to conduct
different acts as it could be associated with the attainment of the organizational task. Further,
air transportation delivers the largest services to their specific consumers and facilitates to
obtain higher competitive advantages.
Slide 4: Marketing segmentation and Target market analysis for chosen organization

Marketing segmentation tool leads to categorizing consumers on the basis of their need,
market, and interest. It could increase the sale of firm and supports to reach a reliable
conclusion. Malaysian could consider different elements such as demographic factor,
psychological factor, psychographic factor, behaviors, and geographic factors (Zutshi, et al.,
2016). It will be imperative in the attainment of increasing the sale of the firm by making a
favorable image in the marketplace (Suki, 2014).
Slide 5: Cont…

This organization mainly focuses on the age group of 14-53 to provide their services. This
organization mainly concentrates on this group to deliver their services as it leads to getting
higher competitive benefits. In the current era, people who come in the age group of 14-53
has used more Airlines services than another group. This organization focuses on both male
as well female to deliver their services. In addition, it is examined that the quality of services
are offered by the organization at a higher price for their consumers as it will lead to getting a
reliable outcome. In addition, it is also examined that social inspiration could be another
important factor that is also practiced by Malaysian Airlines to classify their market. In
addition, the organization could contribute their best efforts in the working place to increase
its revenues at the least time and cost.
Slide 6: Cont…

The psychographic factor could mandate to Malaysian country on behalf of their lifestyles
and attitudes to their consumers. In this, the organization set a higher cost due to offering the
standard quality to consumers. It could also lead to getting a favorable decision. It could be
effective in maximizing the revenue of the organization. Apart from this, it is evaluated that
Malaysian Airlines could consider certain factors such as international, national, and regional
to capture the attention of consumers in reaching a reliable conclusion. In addition, it is
examined that occupation and income factor is evaluated by Malaysian Airlines in reaching a
reliable matter. It will support the firm in getting a reliable conclusion.
Slide 7: Cont…

Malaysian Airlines could target to its consumers on the basis of different elements like
behavioral, demographic, and geographical elements. In addition, it is examined that the
organization mainly focuses on offering quality products to its consumers to make higher
loyalty among consumers. The organization offers its services at a reasonable cost. In
addition, it examined that higher price cannot be affordable by the rural area hence this
organization mainly focus on the urban people. Moreover, it is evaluated that the company
could mainly focus on offering quality services to its consumers and making a robust
relationship with consumers. Moreover, Malaysian Airlines could focus on consuming
different factors like both genders such as male as well as female. In addition, it is also
examined that Airlines deliver healthy and fresh food to their passengers as it could lead to
retain consumers in the long-term. It could be effective in increasing the reliability of
decision making. Furthermore, Malaysian Airlines should need to comprehend a cost-
effective strategy for offering their airlines services to their consumers. In addition, it is also
examined that that psychographic factor could consider this factor to make a reliable decision

with respect to the current research matter. On behalf of this factor, the organization delivers
its services at a higher cost with higher quality.
Positioning statement
Malaysian Airline will generaly focus on those consumers who give more prefernce to time
and confomfort. Organization could understnd the travelers who wish to have quality services
as compared to the normal services. Moreover, Malaysian Airlines could offer their services
at higher cost as copared to other Airlines. Moreover, it is examined that there are different
components, which might be enatiled by the organization to influnce a huge number of
consumeres named comfortable atmosphere, prompt services, and modern technology
(Parsons, Maclaran, and Chatzidakis, 2017). Moreover, the organization could practise
innovative tool to accomplish their targeted objectives. Moreover, it is evaluated that training
and development method is effective in retaining consumers, as it make capable to the
employees to make positive relationship with others. It could also facilitate to the firm for
making positive image among consumers by improving the service level by offering added
value to the consumers. Moreover, the organization could also be capable to increase the
loyalty rate of the consumers in least time and make reliable decision. Moreover, the
organization could offer added value to their employee and make favourable image among
consumer (Noor and Kumar, 2014).
Slide 8: Consumer Behaviour of the organization`s targeted customers

The consumer behavior is identified as the selection of certain procedure such as selection,
buy, use, and dispose of ideas about goods and services in gratifying their requirements and
needs. Furthermore, it is examined that there are different acts of consumers in fundamental
inspiring the consumer’s need.
Slide 9: Cont…

Psychology needs to facilitate the organization in the understanding of different elements,
which could affect consumer behavior. In addition, it considers different sources like service
quality food, comfortable atmosphere, and hygienic environment. In addition, it is examined
that the organization has mainly considered such factors for getting higher competitive
benefits. In addition, it is illustrated that the Airlines industry is could be effective in
obtaining a favorable result. In contrast to this, protection and security is the second step of
the pyramid in which Malaysian Airlines concentrate on offering the safety and security for
their consumers. Malaysian Airlines demonstrate the quality and comfort in plans flying. As a
result, it could also be imperative in the attainment if the desired goal of the organization. It
will also increase the possibilities of getting higher competitive benefits (Leong, et al., 2015).
Slide 10: Cont…
Love and belongingness could consider different elements such as friendship, intimacy, and
family. In this, the organization needs to provide a facility for the organization to make the

liaison between customers and firm. Therefore, Malaysian Airlines could create an
opportunity for the firm in making higher productivity in limited resources.
In this phase, an organization could be associated with recognition and appreciation. Further,
there are creation components that are entailed as esteem such as higher and lower consumer
needs (Kotler, Keller, Ancarani, & Costabile, 2014). In this method, lower consumers need to
focus on the recognition and appreciated by different consumers. Moreover, an organization
considers certain factors like independence, achievement, freedom, and self-esteem.
Therefore, the company should focus on different components to fill the self-esteem of
consumers that will directly impact on the organizational productivity.
Self-actualization could requisite to identify the growth of individual in accomplishments of
the consumer’s need. Furthermore, this element is depended on self-need and individual drive
of the consumer at a strong point. Malaysian Airline could focus on sustaining its consumers
(Kim and Mauborgne, 2014).
Slide 11: Marketing strategies

The marketing mix is imperative in increasing products and services and enables to make a
favorable image of the organization in the market. It could consider different such as product,
price, place, and promotion strategy. These are discussed below:
Airlines industry drive to Malaysian Airlines, which offers different kinds of services like
intercontinental, domestic, regional, international, and schedule services. In addition, it is also
examined that the product strategy is effective in delivering their products and services with
unique features to their consumers as compared to market players. This company offers a
wide category of services to their consumers that could be effective in improving the
customer's satisfaction (Carlsson-Wall, Kraus, and Lind, 2015).
The price strategy leads to the organization to determine the prices for delivering their goods
and services and make a reliable decision in the context of the organization’s product. Pricing
strategy is also used for influencing a huge number of consumers and attracts their behavior
towards consumer buying behavior. Premium price strategy is used by Malaysian Airline in
which organization will deliver their services at a higher cost as compared to the Airlines
industry (Calisir, Basak, and Calisir, 2016). This organization also delivers a higher amount
of discount to its consumers for making a reliable decision (Bharti, Agrawal, and Sharma,
2015).
Slide 12: Cont…