Samenvatting Airline Business & Networks

Airline business and networks
Week 1

Assess HUB + O&D potential for Schiphol
- Which markets does it involve?
- Is it affordable etc?

Definition product:
- Via home; exploiting the hub quality of home airport, airline transfer
point
- To home; attractiveness home airport as destination
- From home; exploiting the catchment area of home airport

Hub potential
- Airway routing
- Directionality
- Capacity
- Time zone
- Connection airlines

MOETEN KUNNEN TEKENEN!!
Supply chain management: flow of physical goods between supplier and receiver
- Standard times for loading, transit and receiving
- Cargo volgorde:
consignors/consignees 
freight forwarder 
airports & airport service providers 
airlines & general sales agents

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, Incoterms: international agreement between parties for responsibility about
freight

Aircraft use
- Hub-bypass (Dreamliner)
- Hub&spoke  CDG is a superhub


Week 2
Networks
- Point to point
- Hub and spoke
- Alliance network

Continuous hub
- LCC en FSC
- Veel O&D traffic zodat ze altijd
bezig blijven, zonder transfer
bank als het ware
- Routes which are frequently operated (multiple teams a day)

Characteristics airline product
- Perishable
- High unit costs
- High fixed costs and low marginal costs
- Fixed capacity
- Advanced booking
- Bundles fares
- International travel

Competitiveness
- Quality
- Who are other competitors?
- What does distinguish them?

Starting an airline network
- Suitable partner for the product selling
- Is there a demand for a certain route?
- KLM needs a partner because it isn’t affordable for them to fly from the big
airports to the smaller one. We just feed the big planes to big destination.

Requirements for starting a new operation
1. Legal (AOC, slots etc)
2. Organization (flight ops)
3. Market
4. Technical (MRO)
5. Financial (capital)


KLM
- EVFR
- Via home