As you see, our work benefits majors, small flag carriers, regionals, charterers, airport authorities and others.
The below partners of Schedule Consult so far have experienced the value of our support.
LIAT is a crucial infrastructure provider in the Caribbean region, connecting numerous
communities and feeding into longer haul flights of other airlines. Operating in small
markets with small aircraft poses a challenge to the profitability of any airline. Despite
that LIAT has achieved remarkable results in this respect, management wished to explore new
options for commercial and economic improvements.
Sky Work Airlines is building a new network out of Bern, rapidly acquiring aircraft,
transforming the organization and rolling out new routes. Schedule Consult was asked to
support in the development of the business plan and in the implementation.
Currently serving the airline with Network Management and Yield/Revenue management on an
outsourcing basis.
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Air Niugini operates in an extremely difficult aviation environment. Despite this the company
manages to deliver a solid product, good on-time performance and profit.
Faced with increasing competition and changes in demand patterns in its markets, both
domestic and international, the company is constantly reviewing its network.
Schedule Consult was asked to be a partner for Air Niugini in designing its network
development and in preparing fleet decisions.
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Kuwait Airways has gone thru turbulent times. Besides that, the company also finds itself in
the extremely turbulent competitive environment of the Gulf region. As state company, it faced
extra challenges with special obligations mounting on the costs, public pressure on company
decisions, etc.
In the transition process to prepare the company for privatization, Schedule Consult was
asked to support Kuwait Airways in developing optimal perspectives on efficiency improvement and
network development.
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Luxair operates a regional point-to-point network out of its operational hub in Luxemburg,
supplemented with holiday flights to the Mediterranean. In a small country growth possibilities are
limited. In order to maximally exploit the possibilities, complex profitability trade-offs are
required.
Schedule Consult helped Luxair to sharpen its trade-offs and clearly define the profitability
of each part of the production. Further, we helped Luxair to develop a promising network
perspective for the future and make objective fleet trade-offs.
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Brussels Airlines and Schedule Consult share a long history of projects together.
We have supported the company and its pre-decessors in various types of matters, from
providing a second opinion on tactical route scheduling and exploring fundamental issues concerning
network strategy development to settling operational issues like turnaround times and ground time
policies.
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In one of Europe’s most competed markets, the UK, Eastern Airways serves a niche of
smaller markets with a fleet of over 30 aircraft. It has a straight profitability record operating
in the 30-seater segment that is avoided by most airlines for its difficult profitability.
Confronted with fundamental changes in its markets and competitive environment, Eastern
Airways asked Schedule Consult to validate its strategy and business model compared to
alternatives.
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Independent Austrian carrier operating from its hub in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The airline
developed its own low-cost regional model. Since the operation was subject to constant growth and
the competitive environment is very dynamic, Intersky wished to verify whether its yield and
revenue management practice was still optimal. Schedule Consult was invited to screen the process
and the commercial challenges.
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Marseille is France's third city and and important economic centre. For many years the air
service portfolio to and from this city did not reflect this position. A new management at the
airport gave an impulse to upgrade airport infrastructure and facilities and developed a new
marketing approach that focused on the viewpoint of airlines. Schedule Consult was asked to support
in this renewing approach.
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VLM’s business model concentrates on connecting from continental Europe to London City
Airport. Keywords are high frequency, small aircraft and penetraton into secondary airports. Though
successful in this type of operation, the company also felt the limitations of this strategy and
started exploring new opportunities.
Since these did not bring the same type of results, Schedule Consult was asked to deliver a
second opinion on the new markets.
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As flag carrier of a small country, KLM has traditionally focused on attracting connecting
traffic via its Amsterdam hub.
The successful design of a new bank structure for this hub formed the kick-start of Schedule
Consult. This dramatic efficiency improvement, combined with a quantum leap in commercial offer
resulted in a substantial increase in profits.
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Afriqyah Airways was one of the first airlines to provide links between Africa and Europe at
affordable prices. Before that, this market was the domain of only a few airlines and it did not
take long for them to launch a counter attack.
Libya had only opened up shortly before and Afrqiyah needed state-of-the-art support to react
and develop the means to sustain its position.
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Swissair was among the first airlines that suffered from strict environmental regulations. In
1995, the growth of the company was heading into a grinding halt as it could not find the slots at
its own Zurich hub to accommodate the extra capacity that it needed to stay competitive. It
attempted to find a solution via both internal and external efforts.
Air Littoral operated a regional hub at Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur. When the company
ran into financial difficulties, management of Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur saw a large part
of its business becoming endangered. In number of routes, Air Littoral was by far its largest
client. Airport management asked Schedule Consult to support in evaluating its options.
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ALM served as home carrier of the Dutch Caribbean Isles. Six islands heavily depended on the
airline for their transportation links, which caused large public involvement and political
interference.
Independent charter airline that sucessfully broke open the Dutch holiday charter market with
a fleet of 737 and 757 aircraft.
Mixed charter and low-cost schedule operator. This combination causes complex trade-offs
between annual production, long series and ad-hoc charters.
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