Aviation retailing, traditionally a very important ancillary revenue base for airlines, is currently facing enormous challenges: increased role of airports in capturing the share of wallet of passengers, inability in capturing the market opportunities, and implementation of recent relevant technology developments. JCF Strategy Consulting can help you increase substantially and rapidly the potential of retailing and its revenue streams.

Ancillary Revenues
JCF Strategy Consulting can help you with boost your ancillary revenues and in/off flight sales, through:
JCF Strategy Consulting is a good partner to help you with:
- Demand Forecasts
- For short haul and long haul, business and economy classes
- Type of food: vegan, low carb, religious/ethnic, low fat, sugar & cholesterol free meals, etc.
- Menu design
- Locally produced fresh ingredients combined in a fashion to meet the flavors valued by your customers
- Nutrient life length optimization
- Cost optimization
- Operations and logistics
- Kitchen workflow
- Just in Time supplier management
- Quality and food safety certifications and accreditations
- IT&CT systems integration with airlines
- Food processing and storage technology
- Business Model enhancement
- Off-season new business development
- Procurement optimization
- Ancillary revenues and co-branding
- Strategy
- Strategy design and strategic planning
- Strategy monitoring frameworks
- Business and financial Planning
- Business Valuations
- Assets’ valuations
- Corporate restructuring and turnaround
- Strategic partnerships’ development
- Mergers/acquisitions/divestitures
- Spin-offs from option analysis to NewCo cruise activity
- Investments and Capital
- Investment planning
- Funding appraisals
- Option analysis and evaluation
Airline Reservation Systems
Airline reservation systems are at the core of todays airline ticketing, sales and distribution, and GDS’ market power is proving challenging and costly for airlines. Increased on-line travel agents’ bargaining power and the urge of airlines in cost reductions and increase of ancillary revenues is becoming a difficult equation for most. JCF Strategy Consulting is capable of helping airlines in both improving consistently their ancillary revenues and reducing ticketing, sales and distribution costs: