Business Planning

Aviation companies engage OAG Analytical Services to assess opportunities, restructure business models, and review business plans, including validation of underlying assumptions and input/feedback on overall business concepts.

 Services include:

• Develop and validate business plan assumptions for new and existing airlines, manufacturers, suppliers and travel agencies
• Assist investors in understanding aviation entities
• Provide financial projections, revenue and cost assumptions, market analysis and forecast, product review and competitive assessment
• Provide SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats) analysis, benchmarking to competitors or other industries, best-practices assessments, scenario planning and contingency planning
• Assist with restructuring, including cost-reduction strategies, divestiture of non-core assets and fleet renewal planning
• Guide revenue management, pricing and distribution strategies
• Analyze merger and acquisition strategies, estimating investment costs and returns, identifying and assessing synergies, developing strategic plans, preparing detailed cash flow and capital expenditure projections (including preparing fleet plans), and assisting in overall due-diligence reviews.

Client examples:

• New U.S. Ultra LCC — OAG developed the initial business concept for a new airline, which is now funded, certified and has placed an order for 65 Airbus 319 aircraft.
• International Airline — OAG helped select new routes for the deployment of 22 new aircraft slated to arrive over the next 24 months. We calibrated an entire world bookings database and also assisted with alliance analysis (determining whether the carrier should join an alliance). 
• Hedge Fund — On behalf of a hedge fund, OAG monitored the developments of a U.S. airline by providing weekly industry intelligence updates and modeling various scenarios for the airline, including assessing monthly advance bookings data and modeling future traffic development by route.
• Middle East Investment Firm — OAG advised the client on potential domestic aircraft manufacturing development programs and reviewed several new aircraft business plans.