Connectivity continues to drive aviation demand growth, given that it lies at the heart of the value provided by theaviation sector to the broader economy. Added connectivity is a measure of the health of an airport, a city, and a region. We know that new players will continue to enter the aviation infrastructure market, seeking to exploit regional opportunities, to expand their interests and reap the advantages that connectivity brings.
As interim leaders we understand, overcome and deliver the challenges and opportunities that rapid aviation development continues to present. We also know the complexities of demand growth around airports, and how often airport expansion can hinder local GDP value creation and job growth.
For airlines, the watchwords should be profitable growth, cost control, and connectivity. Airlines should have a 10% plus operating margin target. Connectivity is at the heart of what makes airlines successful – finding city pairs, either directly or via an efficient hub-and-spoke network operation. As destinations look to grow around the world there will be many new route development opportunities.
Airports face a detailed set of growth issues. Capacity expansion is lumpier, and it usually requires longer lead times as well as much more intensive stakeholder discussion and dialogue. Airspace, ATM, infrastructure, regulatory capability and the right government support and sustainable destination demand growth in many economies now have a greater sensitivity about the local and environmental impacts of aviation expansion.
Government and private sector investment attraction for a destination is often highly competitive and, it often heavily dependent on the ability to effectively grow air access capacity.
In developing and emerging markets connectivity and the strategies to drive greater destination demand awareness and conversion can often under-achieve due to capability inefficiency. In many places airport expansion is often supported strongly by the regulating authorities as a means of providing strategic support to economic growth in a region or nation.
But, that carries a different risk – of over-ambitious expansion – akin to the problems that the airline industry has experienced by over-investing in capacity in the past. Also, alongside airports, airspace and regulatory capacity needs to be developed.
As interim, experienced leaders we bring a high degree of capability in airspace management and destination growth that we can deploy before, or when, any location starts to experience airspace congestion around major cities and airport hubs.
Two final issues bearing on the aviation industry in many markets is decarbonisation and capability, for example resourcing, knowledge and experience within regulators and industry operators.
Driven by experienced best practice and knowing already what works and what evaluation left behind we can enter your organisations and implement tools and strategies to enable aviation environments to better cope and plan for the ongoing complexities driven by demand growth,
We have successfully navigated sustainable aviation growth since its inception. We have detailed experience in the environmental challenges facing the expansion of the industry. The pace of technological change will not counter the adverse environmental impacts of future growth in all areas, we can minimise it impact! A sustainable growth trajectory for the aviation industry therefore requires an acceleration of effort to address the environmental consequences of expansion – which will further raise costs for industry and air travellers over the longer term. We know how to navigate this in your aviation environment.
There are significant growth opportunities, but as industry continues in expansion mode, there are new issues emerging: the risk of over-expansion in airline capacity; the difficulties of expanding airport and airspace capacity where it is now most needed and, the long-term environmental challenges.
These are the key areas in which we help you as experienced, proven successful interim aviation leaders.
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