Aviation Consulting/Airline Consulting: Helping in Enlarging Human Horizons

An aviation consulting firm provides corporate aviation services or support of practical knowledge of aviation to the companies. They provide basic information of aviation and commercial aviation planning to enhance a company’s business. With the help of airline consulting firms, the company is benefitted to be more efficient and productive. The aviation consulting services are provided on a wide range of airline functions and activities. Some are mentioned below:

• Airline restructuring
• Flight operations
• Corporate structure and human capital
• Asset management and treasury and privatisation
• Network performance and decision support
• Safety programs
• Ground handling
• Sales and distribution optimisation
• Network and fleet planning
• Pricing and revenue management
• Maintenance and engineering
• Cash management optimisation
• Cost reduction management
• Corporate strategy assessment and development

Usually an airline consulting firm have multidisciplinary teams comprising of former airline and airport executives, maintenance and operations specialists, financial analysts and other skilled experts of aviation fundamentals. In addition to the above mentioned services to the client, the aviation consulting firms have also developed proprietary databases and analytical tools to help their clients with better energy efficiency, pricing, environmental compliance and bottom-line impact. In order to work in an aviation consulting firm, an individual should posses certain qualities:

• Strong leadership ability
• Ability to work independently and strategise work structure on his/her own
• Coordinate with team to meet deliverables
• Ability to deliver insights/recommendations based on analysis
• Exceptionally analytical
• Should have conceptual and quantitative skills
• Should have proficient Excel modelling ability.
• Self-motivated
• Ability to initiate work independently
• Should have strong written and verbal communication skills
• Track record of achievement in extracurricular professional endeavours
• Willingness to travel internationally
• Ability to work under pressure
• Responsibly take ownership of meeting deadlines and provide flawless result.

A person employed with an aviation consulting company as an associate plays an important role in projects. He/she takes ownership of a work stream i.e. a portion of project. He/she will be responsible for planning, execution and analysis and presentations to the clients. According to the type of project an associate will be responsible in meeting deliverables by re-analysing the work done by analysts. He/she need to be comfortable and confident in handling and leading discussions with client. A formal training is also provided to the new joinees.