Since 1984, Setting The Standard In Aviation Research, Forecasting & Consulting
Boyd Group International is a very different consulting firm. We have been that way since we started in 1984.
Our clients have included major airlines, global aircraft manufacturers, suppliers, and airports of all sizes looking for future guidance.
Let’s be blunt: Most consulting firms, right up to the behemoth international ones, are in business to be hired guns. Most focus on what the client wants to achieve, regardless of whether it is consistent with reality. Intellectual mercenaries.
We’re Advisors, Armed With Aggressive Insights & Results. Boyd Group International assists clients in understanding and optimizing the future. Our foundation is on independent research and trend forecasting that is brought to bear in our advisory role.
Projects That Independently Address The Future. Our approach is unique. For our clients, BGI independent forecasts of air traffic, consumer demand, aircraft fleet dynamics and emerging capabilities are ready when the client calls. These data are not negotiable. They are factual and we expect the client to understand that we do not vary from them. Wishful thinking and group-thought are lethal to aviation planning.
Our Client Relationships Are Based On Cooperation. As you might surmise, there are client projects we do not take on. We don’t do advocacy studies, and we are not reticent to advise clients when necessary to illuminate the facts. We have passed on numbers of “opportunities” simply because they did not meet our standards of analytical scrutiny – regardless of what the “consensus” may think.
Actionable Forecast & Trend Projections. Unlike many other consultants, our research and forecasts are accomplished entirely unilaterally. That means from time to time our projections run counter to “the consensus.”
Examples: In the mid-to-late 1980s, BGI’s independent fleet demand forecasts concluded that there was a strong future market niche for a small under 100-seat jet airliner. The consensus determined that turboprops were the future. The rest is history.
Another is our independent forecasts regarding what became the A380 mega-airliner. The demand projections by the manufacturer and virtually all but a few financial institutions was for over 1,600 units. The BGI data and global dynamics indicated that the economic and operational metrics of the future air transportation system would render less than 300 units world wide.
A total of 254 were built before production was ended.
No Such Thing As A “Long-Term Forecast.” The air transportation system – domestically and globally – is constantly evolving. Monitoring and projecting the emerging changes in the industry means that today’s forecast is merely the starting point for tomorrow’s. That requires Boyd Group International to be constantly researching shifts in all of the factors that shape air transportation.
If You’re Looking To The Future, give us a call.