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EXCHANGE FOR TRAVEL
Association pour le Développement des Technologies du Tourisme
La survie des Packages passera-t-elle
par les Low-Cost ?
2- « Aérien – LCC, à la rencontre des nouvelles
offres des compagnies et besoins voyageurs »
Paris le 22 juin 2016
Martijn van Schalkwijk
Director Products & Solution
Low Cost Carriers represent
an ever higher share of traffic
2 speed growth
over the last 5 years
63%
LCCs
11%
Rest Top10Rank Airline Pax number
(Millions)
1 Ryanair 79.3
2 Air France - KLM 76.4
3 Lufthansa 74.7
4 Easyjet 58.4
5 British Airways 37.6
6 Air Berlin 33.3
7 SAS 25.8
8 Alitalia 24.3
9 Aeroflot 17.7
10 Norwegian 17.7
LCCs represent 35% of PAX carried by
the
top 10 airlines in Europe…
Stagnant LCC capacity – Western
Europe
Growing LCC capacity – Eastern
Europe
Hybridization
Convergence of airline models
$49bn
global ancillary
revenues in
2014
North
America
37.5%
Europe
29.9%
Asia-Pacific
22.4%
Middle East -
Africa 6.0%
Latin
America 4.2%
Ancillaries – revenues by
region
Price is obviously a key
consideration for flight planning
Offering the lowest
available fare is a
key measure of
search performance…
…but it is not the
only thing that
should be considered
when evaluating
performance
51%
55%
52%
47%
42%
Price
Most convenient
flight times
Fewer stops /
better connections
Airport location
Past experience
with airline
Features rated “extremely important”
when choosing airline tickets
leisure travelersbusiness travelers
Source: Google – The air traveler’s road to decision
74%
42%
41%
37%
31%
The lowest fare is not always the
most convenient
How does an 8 hour
stopover with a 2
year old after
getting
off a 12 hour flight
sound?
Airlines are mastering the art of
upsell
Frontier Airlines:
22%
revenue
increase
Air Canada:
47%
of domestic
consumers chose
a higher branded
fare
• Basic fares allow
scheduled carriers to
compete directly on
price with LCCs
• Applying retail
psychology by
assigning a simple
price point to a better
bundle of amenities
And created a more
complex product most
clearly presented on their
own site
How airlines present their
offering…
How OTAs present the offering…
And has the potential to influence the online
landscape…
“The evolution of airline
products and merchandising is
also contributing to a major
shift in online air sales…
ancillary distribution
strategies are pushing OTAs’
air bookings – and their share
of online air – down at an
unprecedented rate.”
Source: PhoCusWright 2013
US online air spend (US$B)
46
57
18 17
2011 2012 2013 2014f 2015f
Airline via OTA
Airline website
In the US, the gap between the
airline
websites and OTAs is widening
The impact…
The majority of Retail Leisure Agents feel
they are at a strong disadvantage
compared to airline websites:
79% perceive they are at an extreme or
moderate disadvantage to compete with
airlines to sell ancillaries
71% perceive they are at an extreme or
moderate disadvantage to compete with
airlines to sell branded fares
Source: WTAAA/IATA NDC
Awareness Survey October 2015
Travelport – ‘Direct merchandising’ made real today within the indirect channel
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functionality
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XFT : « Aérien – LCC, à la rencontre des nouvelles offres des compagnies et besoins voyageurs »

  • 1. EXCHANGE FOR TRAVEL Association pour le Développement des Technologies du Tourisme La survie des Packages passera-t-elle par les Low-Cost ? 2- « Aérien – LCC, à la rencontre des nouvelles offres des compagnies et besoins voyageurs » Paris le 22 juin 2016
  • 2. Martijn van Schalkwijk Director Products & Solution
  • 3. Low Cost Carriers represent an ever higher share of traffic 2 speed growth over the last 5 years 63% LCCs 11% Rest Top10Rank Airline Pax number (Millions) 1 Ryanair 79.3 2 Air France - KLM 76.4 3 Lufthansa 74.7 4 Easyjet 58.4 5 British Airways 37.6 6 Air Berlin 33.3 7 SAS 25.8 8 Alitalia 24.3 9 Aeroflot 17.7 10 Norwegian 17.7 LCCs represent 35% of PAX carried by the top 10 airlines in Europe…
  • 4. Stagnant LCC capacity – Western Europe
  • 5. Growing LCC capacity – Eastern Europe
  • 7. $49bn global ancillary revenues in 2014 North America 37.5% Europe 29.9% Asia-Pacific 22.4% Middle East - Africa 6.0% Latin America 4.2% Ancillaries – revenues by region
  • 8. Price is obviously a key consideration for flight planning Offering the lowest available fare is a key measure of search performance… …but it is not the only thing that should be considered when evaluating performance 51% 55% 52% 47% 42% Price Most convenient flight times Fewer stops / better connections Airport location Past experience with airline Features rated “extremely important” when choosing airline tickets leisure travelersbusiness travelers Source: Google – The air traveler’s road to decision 74% 42% 41% 37% 31%
  • 9. The lowest fare is not always the most convenient How does an 8 hour stopover with a 2 year old after getting off a 12 hour flight sound?
  • 10. Airlines are mastering the art of upsell Frontier Airlines: 22% revenue increase Air Canada: 47% of domestic consumers chose a higher branded fare • Basic fares allow scheduled carriers to compete directly on price with LCCs • Applying retail psychology by assigning a simple price point to a better bundle of amenities
  • 11. And created a more complex product most clearly presented on their own site How airlines present their offering… How OTAs present the offering…
  • 12. And has the potential to influence the online landscape… “The evolution of airline products and merchandising is also contributing to a major shift in online air sales… ancillary distribution strategies are pushing OTAs’ air bookings – and their share of online air – down at an unprecedented rate.” Source: PhoCusWright 2013 US online air spend (US$B) 46 57 18 17 2011 2012 2013 2014f 2015f Airline via OTA Airline website In the US, the gap between the airline websites and OTAs is widening
  • 13. The impact… The majority of Retail Leisure Agents feel they are at a strong disadvantage compared to airline websites: 79% perceive they are at an extreme or moderate disadvantage to compete with airlines to sell ancillaries 71% perceive they are at an extreme or moderate disadvantage to compete with airlines to sell branded fares Source: WTAAA/IATA NDC Awareness Survey October 2015
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  • 16.
  • 17. Travelport – ‘Direct merchandising’ made real today within the indirect channel

Editor's Notes

  1. Airline (Other Regional Slides can be found in the Appendix…) In Europe today, Low Cost Carriers represent 35% of all passengers carried by the Top 10 Airlines. Over the last five years, these 3 LCCs have grown passenger numbers by over 60%. The remaining 7 traditional carriers have gone through a series of consolidation, and have collectively grown passengers carried by just over 10%. Indeed with such a high share of travellers choosing to fly LCC, this has become increasingly crucial content for OTAs to drive traffic & conversion
  2. Passenger numbers and seat capacity have clearly grown globally over the years – mainly triggered by a changing economic and social landscape. But where exactly is this growth coming from? Low Cost Carriers. From a global perspective, this LCC expansion continues to overtake traditional airlines. In Western Europe however LCC growth has slowed down relatively on the domestic network as network airlines claw back some share (growth of BA/IB/LHG)
  3. In Eastern Europe however, LCCs are growing both in international and domestic markets. What this means is that more new LCCs will come in to play, creating new travel providers for Travelport and new content for travel agents to access, often for the first time. ------------- Background Information Low cost carriers (LCCs) are growing faster than the traditional airlines in most regions After posting growth of 11.5% YoY in 2013 to reach 874m passengers, LCCs are expected to grow at 8% in 2014 and 10% between 2014-19 to reach 1,604m passengers by 2019 Growth reflects slower uptake in mature regions such as North America and Western Europe, and higher growth in under-developed markets of Latin America, Middle East and Africa. Sources: Travelport, T2RL, CAPA
  4. What are ancillaries? They are essentially an airline commoditising their products item by item, or seat by seat for example, putting choice and value directly with the traveler. They are critical to an airline’s profitability and they will remain a strategic focus for the foreseeable future. The most popular ancillaries relate to seats, WiFi, travel insurance and beverages/meals. Ancillary sales are the logical progression for Rich Content and Branding where you will be able to “look then book” and monetise by growing attachment rates. Although not currently a major revenue stream for Travelport, ancillaries are becoming an essential element of our airline customers’ businesses. Seats are the biggest priority for airlines, and this is where we have concentrated our implementation efforts – and where we have encountered the most difficulties Going forward, we will focus our sales strategy on airlines that have signed up to Rich Content and Branding In addition, we will utilize a cross functional team to drive up ancillary attachment rates Source: IdeaWorks
  5. Price is clearly a key component of flight planning, and therefore offering the lowest available fare is a key measure of Search Performance. Being able to return the lowest lead-in fare option is always going to be important, whether you participate in metasearch, rely on organic search or a loyal customer base. But we believe there are other criteria that are increasingly important. Price is one of many variables that all weigh into the complex decision process that we go through when we decide upon a particular itinerary - whether that be the convenience of the flight times, number of connections, and accessibility of the airport – something that is an increasing consideration with some LCCs choosing secondary airport locations.
  6. The reality is that the lowest fare is not always the most convenient At some level convenience plays a role in our decision making, whether consciously or sub-consciously Even on short haul, convenience plays a role. Want a flight to southern Spain? If you live in the south-east of England, you could fly to Malaga from Gatwick, Luton, Stansted, London City and Southend airports, with six airlines. You could also opt to fly to Gibraltar, Jerez or Seville instead... Long-haul flights are even more complicated. For example variations not only include the fare, but the length of journey and the location and number of stopovers.
  7. And it’s not just the unbundling of services – which have allowed the scheduled carriers to compete with LCCs directly on price in some cases - Airlines are mastering the art of upsell using methods seen in other retail environments (such as the automobile sector). By bundling amenities into fare families, the pricing strategy of assigning a price point that seemingly represents better value than purchasing those amenities as individual options, actually encourages consumers to take the higher valued bundle. Air Canada for example, have recorded that almost half of domestic consumers chose a higher branded fare. – what that ultimately means is that Airlines have found a way to get consumers to recognise value in the services they offer….if they pay extra for a higher branded fare, they obviously place value in what is included. The fact that these Airlines can start to differentiate their offering and grow their revenue is why the airlines have put so much focus on displaying merchandising options.
  8. The challenge now, is that the Airlines have created a product that is more complex, and today best (most clearly) presented on their own airline.com site. On the left, you see how the airline site clearly displays the itineraries in a matrix that enables comparison of the prices of the fare families (in this case, Choice, Choice Essential, etc). The airline site also allows the user to then explore the relative merits of each of the fare families and make an informed decision as to which meets their needs. Airlines believe that the value of their products are best represented with this level of detail and differentiation. They want this value to be represented to the consumer, regardless of the channel used for booking. On the right you can see how the same itinerary is represented on a typical OTA display
  9. So what does this mean? In the US, this development is being attributed in part to the shift in share between OTAs and Airline websites According to PhoCusWright, this is one of the key explanations as to why in recent years spend on Air tickets on US OTA sites has flat-lined, while spend on the airline sites has grown. This is the trend we need to address together….
  10. So what’s the impact: In the recent IATA study the majority of leisure agents surveyed feel at a strong disadvantage compared to airline websites to sell ancillary products or branded fares. Close to 80% felt at a considerable disadvantage when it comes to selling ancillaries And the responses from TMCs was very similar So let’s take a look at how Smartpoint can help agents today Just for Note: TMCs 75% perceive they are at an extreme or moderate disadvantage to compete with airlines to sell ancillaries 61% perceive they are at an extreme or moderate disadvantage to compete with airlines to sell branded fares
  11. 640m invested in the most relevant technology Cloud computing Mobile first Personalisation One of the Largest non-military data centers Using .NET
  12. Our strategy is agile but remains focused
  13. Sun with platform Air hotel car, wifi , seats , bags , reviwes, chains independent Content flowing in Full content deal The new full content
  14. TVPT leads the industry Over 128 carriers are now signed, including most recently the Lufthansa Group of airlines, and these airlines are now able to market their entire product suite and brand propositions in exactly the same way as they do on their own websites. So contrary to recent public rhetoric, airlines clearly see Travelport as an enabler for front-end value creation, which is in turn driving revenue growth for us. Essentially, there is nothing that we are aware of that Lufthansa can do in its direct channel versus the indirect channel using Travelport. This means that the tens of thousands of travel management companies, travel agencies and corporate travelers who book using third party applications that are powered by Travelport can see and buy the entire range of Lufthansa product. This is important not only from meeting the demands of our airline customers but also from a revenue generation perspective since each carrier that has implemented this capability pays Travelport a small additional premium fee for each booking made. And this in turn drives something we measure and report on called RevPas about which more later.