Defining and steering your fleet strategy
The fleet is one of an airline’s main strategic assets.
Defining and steering your fleet strategy
The fleet is one of an airline’s main strategic assets. Choices made on acquiring, leasing, operating, maintaining or renewing aircraft have a lasting impact on economic performance, quality of service and growth prospects.
Every decision involves significant investment and must reconcile operating costs, capacity offered, range, environmental performance, aircraft availability, maintenance constraints and network development. Fleet management therefore covers the entire life cycle of the aircraft, from defining the strategy to delivery, operation and maintenance, and finally redelivery or replacement.
Aérogestion supports airlines at every stage to secure their decisions, optimise their investment and ensure consistency between the fleet, operational needs and growth objectives.
Defining a fleet strategy suited to your operational and economic challenges
Choosing a fleet is a strategic trade-off that goes beyond the technical characteristics of the aircraft. It must meet the needs of the network while being fully consistent with the airline’s business and commercial model and its growth prospects.
Depending on the situation, this may involve assessing different aircraft types, preparing a fleet renewal, supporting gradual growth or optimising acquisition or lease terms. Aérogestion analyses the different options to identify the solutions best suited to the airline’s business model and strategy.
- Fleet strategy
- Technical, operational and economic comparison of aircraft
- Operating costs
- Capacity requirements
- Leasing
- Negotiation of acquisition or lease contracts
- Economic analysis of fleet scenarios
Defining and optimising your cabin layouts (LOPA)
Defining a cabin configuration suited to the airline’s positioning, the characteristics of its network and its economic objectives, while incorporating the aircraft’s technical and regulatory constraints.
- Definition and optimisation of LOPAs
- Capacity and class split
- Analysis of configurations and their economic impact
- Taking technical and regulatory constraints into account
- Coordination with manufacturers and suppliers
Optimising the operation and performance of your fleet
A fleet’s performance depends as much on its day-to-day operation as on its technical characteristics. Network organisation, aircraft assignment, maintenance planning and operational availability have a direct impact on costs, punctuality, quality of service and profitability.
Aérogestion helps airlines optimise the use of their fleet by finding the best balance between economic performance, technical constraints and operational requirements.
- Aircraft assignment
- Fleet / network fit
- Operating schedules
- Coordination with maintenance constraints
- Operating costs
- Maintenance planning
- Operational availability of the fleet
Securing the key stages of your aircraft life cycle
Aircraft delivery, integration, modification and redelivery are critical phases involving manufacturers, lessors, maintenance organisations, authorities and operational teams. Insufficient preparation or incomplete follow-up can lead to delays, additional costs or difficulties at entry into service.
Aérogestion steps in to manage these operations, coordinate the various parties and secure each stage of the project, from inspections through to the aircraft’s entry into service or its redelivery at the end of the lease.
- Delivery and redelivery programmes
- Monitoring of manufacturer production and integration work
- Technical inspections
- Aircraft delivery and acceptance
- Fleet redelivery
- Coordination of manufacturers, lessors, MROs and authorities
- Follow-up of technical findings through to entry into service
How we work
Combined technical and economic expertise
We bring together operational needs, aircraft characteristics, maintenance constraints and economic conditions to inform fleet decisions.
Support with decisions and negotiations
Aircraft comparisons, leasing, contracts and relations with manufacturers, engine makers and OEMs are handled from a technical, operational and contractual perspective.
Follow-up through to the operational stages
Our support can cover aircraft selection, contracting, monitoring of production, delivery and aircraft redelivery.
We called on Aérogestion for an in-depth study of the new generation of NEO and MAX aircraft, expected to be real challengers for the Osaka region. We are very pleased with this collaboration, which strengthened our knowledge of these aircraft types and of the opportunities they offer.