Airlines
The network is the heart of an airline
An airline's network is an integral part of its business and operation.
Having the right strategy, route structure, and schedule can make or break an airline.
That is why Span Consulting's airline advisory practice focuses entirely on network development.
We are network planning leaders, offering a career's worth of experience in multiple business models and global regions.
Network Strategy
Every successful airline has a strong network strategy. It is not only important for defining your route structure, but also drives other key decisions like the fleet plan, product mix, minimising costs, and generating revenue.
To help our clients create and implement an effective network strategy, we combine an extensive dataset with qualitative analysis to help you understand the opportunities and challenges your airline faces.
The framework is then applied across your airline's strengths, weaknesses, business environment, and competition to build a network strategy that achieves your airline's aspirations.
Span utilises a collaborative approach across the commercial and operational functions and at different levels of leadership to build the right plan for your airline and create buy in throughout the organisation.
Network Strategy
Every successful airline has a strong network strategy. It is not only important for defining the route structure, but also drives other key decisions like the fleet plan, product mix, minimising costs, and generating revenue.
Span creates and implements effective network strategies by combining an extensive industry dataset with qualitative analysis to create a framework that is applied across an airline's strengths, weaknesses, business environment, and competition. It is then applied to building a network strategy that achieves the airline's aspirations and mitigates its challenges.
We utilise a collaborative approach across the commercial and operational functions to build the right plan for the airline and create buy in throughout the organisation.
Network Planning
Route selection is one of the most important decisions airline leaders make and combines deep analytics along with key market insights to maximise profitability. It does not end with the launch as continual and proactive performance management is needed to ensure sustainable success.
Network Planning is about maximising an airline's profitability, which is ultimately a prioritisation exercise in aligning capacity to demand.
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Span works with network planning leaders and practitioners to forecast, evaluate, implement, monitor, and improve routes across the network. We also help optimise hubs, align commercial functions, work with airports and other community partners, and performance improvements for routes, cities, and the network as a whole.
Flight Scheduling
Creating flight schedules that meet passenger demands, satisfy operational requirements, and maximise profitability is an enormous challenge in the highly dynamic airline environment.
Close coordination among the commercial and operational sides of the airline is a necessity to achieve the right balance between schedule marketability and operability, as well as deploying the inevitable changes when the plan collides with an ever-shifting reality.
Span works with airlines to get the most from their flight schedules through a rigorous review of all the commercial and operational elements to maximise profitability. We also work with scheduling teams to streamline and enhance the schedule development process.