Qualitative Airline Network Planning Study

Airline Network Planning Study

Client is a leading airlines and aviation company that wanted to conduct a study on Airline Network Planning.

Business Objective

The main objective was to enhance and gain qualitative information on following points:

Minimize unprofitable flights

Improve flight schedule

Fleet planning

Hub optimization-evolution

Network rationalization

New routes evaluation

Resources (fleet, crew) optimization

Aircraft rotation optimization

Our Approach

Research Premise
Research Premise Continued
Value Delivered

Research Premise

Research experts conducted in-depth interviews with several industry-wide stakeholders which includes airline experts in planning and architects, operations executives, route development managers and project owners etc.

Focusing on the following attributes towards Airline Network Planning:

Fleet planning and evaluation
Fleet supply and integrated planning
Traffic and revenue forecasting
Network optimization
Route evaluation opportunities
Network strategy
Designing networks
Hub connectivity
Matching the competition: including threats from the competitive scenario

Geographic Coverage: Europe-5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain & UK), North America (US & Canada) & Asia Pacific (India, China, Japan, Singapore & Australia)

Research Premise Continued

Collated and analyzed the data from secondary sources like company websites, articles, press releases, industry reports and presentations to recognize the following:

Leading players in the industry
Estimated the annual Airline spent for consulting in Network Planning
Market share/ size for each relevant consulting firm
Also focused on consulting projects on Network planning i.e. Fleet & Hubs scheduling and planning