Airline economics

The rise in the price of oil has made the economic balance of air transport even more fragile. The industry, which has low margins, cannot bear any drift in costs and revenues.

Your expectations

You know that knowledge of the economic and competitive environment is indispensable to fix development objectives and reach them.

You want your staff to have an overall vision of activity and to understand the economic issues for an airline.

You want them to be able to identify ways to progress in your company.

Your objective is to optimize the economic results of efforts undertaken both in terms of development and in revenue and mastering costs.

You refuse to be obliged to downsize your fleet, your network or your staff. 
 

Our Offer

This one-day seminar presents in a clear way the main economic mechanisms for an airline.
The presentations are illustrated by numerous concrete examples, practical exercises and exchanges of experience.

Pedagogical objectives

To understand the wide economic issues of a scheduled airline:
- The type of airline: traditional, low cost, hybrid…
- Main cost centres and cost control policy
- Revenues and competitive pressure
- The bottom line, the main criteria of judgment of the policy followed by the airline

To integrate these basics so as to be able to identify ways to progress in one’s own airline;

To acquire the indispensable notions for good overall comprehension of the economics of scheduled air transport. 
 

Course Content

General presentation of air transport in the world and of its major issues: the economic characteristics of the sector and its perspectives

The key figures for an airline their comparison according to the model: traditional vs low cost

Investments and their financing

Risks and risk management

Costs and revenues by sector of activity

Results and explanatory factors.