JCF Strategy Consulting has a very strong and in-depth expertise in many different areas of the airline Industry.
We believe that an airline is a unique world, and important improvements require a deep cooperation between the consultant and the airlines’ managers and staff. That is why we support our clients in all stages of a project, from design to successfully completed implementation.
To date we have been part of numerous projects for regional, international and major airline groups in key areas:
- Demand forecasts: Passengers and cargo
- Route network:
- Competitive assessments
- Market share assessments
- Competitor’s moves’ assessment
- Profitability assessments
- Route network design
- Competitive position monitoring
- Optimal scheduling
- Operations
- Business Model design and development
- Operational Optimization
- Operating Costs’ Management
- Routings Optimization
- Service Level Management (SLM)
- Operations Modeling
- Crew productivity assessments
- Crew productivity improvements
- Crew planning
- Crew Allocation Optimization
- Support in Negotiations with Crew Staff
- Fleet
- Fleet competitivity assessment
- Fleet optimization
- Fleet planning
- Fleet financing
- Aircraft evaluation
- Human Resources
- Corporate Development Planning
- Training planning
- Customized training
- Appraisal system design
- Salary and retribution benchmarking
- Productivity assessments
- Sales and Marketing
- Revenue Management algorithms design
- Pricing optimization
- Customer behavior studies
- On-line behavior studies
- Reservation systems’ features specs
- Call Center service configuration
- B2B and B2C business process optimization
- Ancillary services and revenues maximization
- Customer Service optimization
- Business Intelligence analysis
- Mysterious customer service design
- Back-office procedures redesign and optimization
- Sales force configuration
- Capital Investments
- Business Planning
- Business valuations
- Mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs
- Privatizations
- Business sales and Negotiations
- Capital Partnerships (public and private)
- Investment and operational audits
- Data room preparation
- Due diligence
- Value Based Management
- Stock Market listings
- Start-ups
- On-going Assistance and Support
- On-going operational optimization modeling: including EBIT maximization, scenario building, optimization of fleet and crew utilization, optimal aircraft routings and scheduling)
- Business intelligence:
- Systematic in-depth database analysis and reports
- Systematic revenue management and pricing algorithm analysis and reformulation
- Demand/price elasticity analysis per route
- Route and network competitivity
- Coaching in best practices
- Technical assistance in implementation processes.