Airline Economics

skailark aviation intelligence provides a data image of the global aviation industry. Individual airline cost items concerning all flights of the largest >250 airlines are modelled bottom-up, leveraging vast amounts of data and proprietary machine learning models. Cost outputs range from CASK/CASM to block hours, flight hours, seats, eseats and many more options. Web-based platforms allow our customers to benchmark against competitors and dynamically model scenarios. All to enable best informed decision-making for aviation managers.

Airline Economics

skailark aviation intelligence provides a data image of the global aviation industry. Individual airline cost items concerning all flights of the largest >250 airlines are modelled bottom-up, leveraging vast amounts of data and proprietary machine learning models. Cost outputs range from CASK/CASM to block hours, flight hours, seats, eseats and many more options. Web-based platforms allow our customers to benchmark against competitors and dynamically model scenarios. All to enable best informed decision-making for aviation managers.

Customers and use cases

Airlines

Business strategy

Cost benchmarking

Transformation and M&A

Fleet strategy and planning

Network strategy and route planning

Investor relations

Airports

Market screening

Opportunity screening

Route opportunity assessment

Competitor airport benchmark

Airline benchmark

Airline negotiation support

Other aviation customers

Aircraft and engine OEMs

MRO firms

Ground handlers

Freight forwarders

Leasing firms

Banks and analysts

Airlines

  • Business strategy
  • Cost benchmarking
  • Transformation and M&A
  • Fleet strategy and planning
  • Network strategy and route planning
  • Investor relations

Airports

  • Market screening
  • Opportunity screening
  • Route opportunity assessment
  • Competitor airport benchmark
  • Airline benchmark
  • Airline negotiation support

Other aviation customers

  • Aircraft and engine OEMs
  • MRO firms
  • Ground handlers
  • Freight forwarders
  • Leasing firms
  • Banks and analysts

The above use case examples represent a small share of the sheer endless capabilities or our airline cost platform. If you are interested to see further detail we would be thrilled to provide you with a live demonstration of this platform.

Airline unit cost index

The below airline unit cost index dashboard presents selected data in action. The index showcases aggregated data of our bottom-up aviation data image. It displays airline unit cost (CASK / CASM) by month, normalized against unit cost values in January 2019. By selecting the 100% seat density option, costs are benchmarked assuming all aircraft were flying with maximum allowed economy seat density (exist seat limit). This feature allows a like-for-like comparison of airline unit cost. The Ex-fuel unit cost option compares all airline unit costs excluding the cost of fuel.

Note: Any of the above data and visualisations are subject to our legal note.