OPTIMIZING AIRLINES FINANCIAL HEALTH | Aviationia

This virtual course prepares airline managers and aviation industry staff to understand how to preserve liquidity, reduce costs, right size the business (network, fleet, etc.) and what mechanisms are available to raise cash under uncertain, cyclical and travel behaviour shock scenarios, especially given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, a number of commercial initiatives to accelerate revenues and optimize liquidity will be discussed as well as how to reposition a business for growth.

Why Optimizing Airlines Financial Health?

• To develop a robust cost containment plan and strategy
  To understand business right-sizing strategies while adjusting demand vs. capacity needs
  To understand the 6 R’s plan: (Reset, Rethink, Resize, Re-adjust, Restart and Re-learn)
  To identify mechanisms to preserve liquidity including private and public funding sources
  To identity key commercial strategies to re-attract customers
  To understand market opportunities and repositioning your business for growth

Programme

1. 1. Liquidity Focus
   2. Strategic Cost Reduction Plan
   3. Strategies to Right-Size the Business
   4. Commercial Strategy and Positioning the Business for Growth
   5. Airline Business Cases

Who should Attend?

This Masterclass is designed for airline and aviation industry professionals and personnel in the air transportation ecosystem: consultants, general managers, executive director, finance directors and managers, commercial managers, planning executive, and their staff.

Concluding Remarks:

This Masterclass will provide participants an understanding of how to preserve liquidity, contain costs and reformulate a commercial strategy under demand uncertainty especially given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, participants will understand how airlines can reposition their business for growth while rebuilding demand and confidence to travel.

Meet the Trainer

René is a C-Suite trainer at Aviationia, and delivers Financials -oriented Masterclasses. He has more than 20 years of progressive international negotiation experience in airlines, and a decade of involvement in strategic consulting with airlines and airports, including Talma Airport Services in Peru. He is a Commercial Vice President and partner at MIDAS Aviation. Rene’s expertise includes revenue optimization, cost reduction and route forecasting. He is a columnist and collaborator for a number of air transportation (A21, ALN), business & economics (America Economia) and financial publications (Bloomberg, Nasdaq, El Economista, El Financiero). Moreover, he had contributed to numerous investor briefings on behalf of REDD Intelligence mainstream news outlets (Reuters). He leads a number of air transportation debates in academia on behalf of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, McGill University, and the University of Barcelona, thereby enabling himself to conduct acadustry®-oriented executive education.