New airline seating concept allows passengers to pay by space occupied. In the recent past, the airline industry has witnessed various measures to reduce cost and increase ancillary revenue, including GoAir’s move to hire only female flight attendants (to reduce fuel cost), and Samoa Air’s decision to charge passengers by weight. UK-based design company Seymourpowell has developed an economy seating concept called ‘Morph’ allowing passengers to pay-by-space. Yes, pay only for the seat space a passenger occupies. Morph uses smart architecture to adjust both the width of the seat, and individually controlled seat pan height and seat pan depth to suit varying sizes of passenger. By default, every seat is 18″ wide (standard).
Users can either increase it or decrease it to as low as a 10″ seat. This creates a scalable value offer for airlines, allows them to arrange the economy cabin by people’s wish and blurs the boundaries between various classes. Seymourpowell’s head of transport, Jeremy White says: After posting £80M loss, Virgin Atlantic aims to trims fuel costs with new technology platform.
Virgin Atlantic announced a £80 million loss this week, blaming a combination of lower demand and skyrocketing fuel prices. With the airline’s fuel costs rising by nearly one third, the year-over-year loss underscores the importance of reducing fuel costs to enhance profitability for all airline carriers. Virgin Atlantic claims it is at the forefront of the drive to increase fuel efficiency, launching a sustainability initiative in 2007 called Change is in the Air. The program aims to cut carbon emissions by 30% by 2020 through a variety of measures, including longer term solutions such as its sustainable aviation fuel partnership with low-carbon fuel provider Lanzatech. The airline recently announed the latest step in their sustainability program, a fuel efficiency management tool that may save as much as £20 million and 92,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. The tool uses technology to accurately measure performance and prioritize fuel saving opportunities.
Trip Finder. ARC. ITA Software. AirPlus International. Www.aerlines.nl/issue_32/32_Witlox_et_al_MIDT.pdf. ARIG: Airline Revenue Integrity Group. Revenue Integrity whitepaper by Paul Rose chairman & founder of ARIG Acknowledgement of thanks to S.I.T.A. in sponsoring this paper and for giving permission to feature on the A.R.I.G. website. Introduction There can be no doubt that airlines are currently functioning in a harsh economic climate. Now more than ever they must reduce costs and maximize their revenue. But, surprisingly, many are still not realizing the benefits provided by revenue integrity programmes. Over the last thirty years, a large number of airlines have invested heavily in traditional revenue management solutions while ignoring the possibly greater return on investment offered by revenue integrity solutions.
What exactly is revenue integrity? This paper examines the benefits to be gained from developing a revenue integrity programme and puts the case for applying a consistent approach. Business drivers There are a number of business drivers for implementing revenue integrity solutions. Benefits Costs are lowered. Billet d'avion et vol pas cher - Skyscanner France. MIT Global Airline Industry Program.
MIT has established a multidisciplinary team of faculty, staff and graduate students drawn from the Schools of Engineering, Management and Humanities and Social Sciences to study the global airline industry. The goal of this program is to develop a body of knowledge for understanding development, growth and competitive advantage in this industry, which is one of the most diverse, dynamic and perplexing of the world. The Global Airline Industry Program represents a large-scale effort that provides the means for MIT and the academic community to make a "great leap forward" in studying the airline industry and in educating its future leaders. This effort was established under the umbrella of the Sloan Foundation's Industry Studies Program and is supported by the MIT Airline Industry Consortium.
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