CAPA India regularly shares research and analysis through webinars across a diverse range of critical issues, based on global best practices and benchmarking.
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Supply Chain Challenges & their Impact on Indian Aviation
December 14, 2023Key topics discussed
- Do regulators need to play a greater role in the certification of new products or platforms?
- Are aerospace supply chains ready to fulfil delivery demand in the near future, given the current geopolitical-economic scenario?
- Should OEMs bring airline customers on-board as risk-sharing partners for new aircraft programmes?
- What lessons do other industries have for aerospace OEMs in mitigating supply chain risks?
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Impact of Mega Carriers
November 28, 2023Key topics discussed
- Impact on Air India and IndiGo in terms of access to people and infrastructure
- Impact of two dominant carriers on industry competition, dynamics and profitability
- Steps Indian airports, MROs, ground handlers, regulators, policy makers and competition authorities need to take to prepare to handle these mega carriers
- Impact of emergence of mega carriers on innovation across the sector
- Key systemic risks that are likely to emerge as a result of the presence of mega carriers
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Fundamental Review of Indian Airline Profitability
October 11, 2023Key topics discussed
- Financial performance of Indian airlines before COVID-19 (FY2010–FY2019)
- Detailed review of drivers of revenue, including passenger revenue, cargo, ancillaries and load factors
- Detailed review of drivers of key cost items such as fuel, employees, aircraft ownership, maintenance and overheads
- Impact of currency and ATF prices on industry financials
- Benchmarking of the performance of Indian carriers relative to global peers
- Assessment of how several foreign airlines achieved record profits after the pandemic
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Aviation Policy for a USD20 Trillion Economy by the 2040s
March 23, 2023Key topics discussed
- Policy review and learnings from 5 leading global markets
- Evolution of the aviation policy in India since deregulation
- Review of sector-wise policy and associated challenges
- Recommendations for a policy roadmap to enable growth
- Positioning India as a leading, progressive and modern aviation system
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Prospects for Airport Hubs in India
February 1, 2023Key topics discussed
- Key success factors for an aviation hub
- Possibility of Indian metro airports becoming global hubs
- Position of Indian carriers to be able to create genuine hubs
- Role that other stakeholders, such as governments and tourism, need to play
- Ways in which India and Indian aviation can gain from the development of hubs
- CAPA India’s proposed framework for aviation hub development
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Strategic Restructuring & Turnaround of Airlines
January 1, 2023Key topics discussed
- Reasons successful airlines sometimes find themselves in situations that call for restructuring/turnaround
- Always internal or is it external factors that lead an airline to such a situation
- Ways airlines can avoid being in such situations
- Reasons for the failure of the majority of restructuring and turnaround attempts
- Some key factors that lead to positive outcomes
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Making Airline Planning Strategic to Success
December 1, 2022Key topics discussed
- Common pitfalls in the current approach to planning
- Ways in which airlines can overcome planning in silos
- Secret sauce to planning
- Ways to make airline planning more effective and agile
- Reasons for divergence of business outcomes significantly from plans
- Possibility of airlines’ plan for a VUCA world
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A New Approach to Airline Frequent Flyer & Loyalty Programmes
November 30, 2022Key topics discussed
- Understanding the key differences between loyalty and frequent flyer programmes
- Evolution of frequent flyer programmes in the last four decades
- Reasons for loyalty programmes becoming so valuable over time
- Architecture of a modern loyalty programme
- Learnings for Indian airlines from global best practices
- Future of airline loyalty
- Roadmap for Indian airlines to create successful loyalty programmes
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Optimising Airline Maintenance & Engineering
October 19, 2022Key topics discussed
- India’s standing in the global MRO market
- Ways in which the size and scope of MROs in India has impacted the maintenance strategies of Indian carriers
- True cost of maintenance for Indian carriers relative to what is reported
- Ways Indian airlines could have reduced maintenance expenses
- Global best practices that could be adopted by Indian carriers
- Projected growth of demand for maintenance services in India over the next 10 years
- How the MRO ecosystem needs to evolve to better support Indian carriers
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