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FAST

Future Airport STratégies

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Context

Context

Increasing market share of low-cost carriers (LCCs)•5% in 200211% in 2004 16% in 2006 of the European flights

•5% average annual growth in Europe

Legitimates specific LCCs requests

Changes in airport strategies: service differentiation•Low cost terminals in Marseille (France), Tampere (Finland), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France)

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FAST

FAST project

Aim: –Analysing how European airports strategies could evolve in the future

–Analysing the resulting evolution trends in traffic distribution at airports at a 10 years time horizon

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Structure

Work-packages

WP1: Actual air transport situation and market environment

WP2: Airport strategic options and future tendencies

WP3: Impacts of airport strategies on traffic distribution

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WP1

Actual air transport situation and market environment

Requirements of:•Airlines: traditional, Low-cost, charter•Passengers: business & leisure

Airport business models:•Airport Typology: Regional, Hub, etc•Competition between airports: traffic levels, aeronautical and non-aeronautical revenues, etc

Definition of a typology of airports according to type and level of airport services

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WP2

Airport strategic options and future tendenciesTwo categories of customers: airlines and passengers

Analysis of the future airport strategies:•Comparison with other industries with two market sides(e.g. TV network, Newspapers, estate agencies, etc.): Two sided market theory

•Evolution of the competition between airports

Identification of possible future airport strategies of differentiation

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WP3

Impacts of airport strategies on traffic distribution

Past changes on traffic distribution at airports with LCCs traffic

•Case study airports (e.g. Prestwick, Milano – Bergamo, Luton, Frankfurt – Hahn, Marseille, Geneva, Barcelona, Bratislava, Vienna, etc.)

Future airport strategies identified in WP2

Scenarios of evolution trends in traffic distribution at airports in 2020

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Partners

PartnersM3 Systems, leader:

•Isabelle Laplace

French National Aviation University (ENAC-LEEA)•Nathalie Lenoir•Estelle Malavolti

University of Zilina•Antonin Kazda •Benedikt Badanik •Karel Havel •Anna Tomova

Consultant•Marc Houalla (ex-Marseilles airport director, in charge of the business plan for the new “Low cost “ terminal of Marseille airport)

Conclusion of the slide.

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Planning

Planning To

KO meeting

To + 12 months

Project Management

WP1 : Differentiation in airport quality of

service

Planning

Deliverables

To +7 months

T0+8 months

End of Project meeting

Draft of DEL1

WP2 : Potential evolution of airports

strategies of differentiation

WP3 : Impacts of airport strategies of differentiation on traffic distribution

DEL1

Draft of DEL2

Draft of DEL3

DEL3

Progress meeting

Progress meeting

To +4 months

DEL2

T0+11 months

Progress meeting

To +3 months

Workshop INO