From The #1 Aviation Forecast & Research Firm
A Forensic Review of The Challenges In Airport Planning.
Let’s be blunt. A lot of traditional airport planning – including air service access programs -are based on assumptions of an airline industry that is no longer in existence.
Like “leakage studies” that completely ignore service-quality competition from other airports. Or, “catchment surveys” that assume an airport’s traffic base is geographic instead of based on consumer-convenience factors. The complete ignorance of the concept of trip-time v local flights. No analyses of airline-related factors, such as corporate strategies and changes in fleet mix. Ridiculous assumptions that there are still small independent “regional airlines” that can connect rural airports to the world.
Quack solutions. These are avenues that are leading USA airports to a dead end. It’s of note that one western airport revealed that over just a few years, it had spent over $300,000 on such voodoo – with no air service results.
Boyd Group International has developed Runway To The Future, a program that ruthlessly and directly addresses the future challenges of airport planning.
Each week, in a brief video – four minutes – we’ll concisely outline the contents of each of ten modules that challenge and discuss how joining us in the the Runway To The Future program can change the perspectives and the results of air service access accomplishment.