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Innovations in the Aviation Industry: Trend and
Developments
Dr Narudh Cheramakara
Sep 2017
Agenda
• Innovation: Introduction
• Aircraft Manufacturing Sector
• Airline Sector
• Airport Sector
• Q & A
Innovation: Business Context• The process of translating an idea or invention into a good or service
that creates value or for which customers will pay.
• Customer-centric !!!
• Evolutionary innovations (continuous or dynamic evolutionary innovation) that are brought about by many incremental advances in technology or processes and
• Revolutionary innovations (also called discontinuous innovations) which are often disruptive and new.
Innovations: the benefits
• Cost
• Competitive Advantage
• Customer Experience
• Branding
• Marketing 4 Ps (Product, Price, Place//Distribution channel, Promotion)
• Customer Loyalty
• Regulatory compliance (Voluntary or Compulsory)
• Customer’s willingness to pay
=> Improving financial performance
What else?
Airline Customer Journey: Touch Points
Watkinson’s 10 principles of customer experience1. Great customer experiences strongly reflect the
customer’s identity – self value brand level2. Satisfy your higher objs, product or service level3. Leave nothing to chance, interaction level4. Set and meet expectation 5. Effortless6. Stress free7. Indulging the sense8. Socially engaging9. Put customer in control10. Consider the emotions
2. Product life cycle
3. Product Innovation
For a successful product innovation E.M. Rogers suggests the following points of consideration
3.1 Relative Advantage
• new products must be substantially better value-for-money than those they are replacing, in order for consumers to accept the risks of using them
3. Product Innovation
• 3.2 Compatibility
• An innovation is unlikely to be successful if it is a very radical departure from the existing ways in which business is done in the market sector in
- This could be wrong for inflight product (e.g. flatbed on BA, Etihad Suite)
- But could be right for standing seats
- How about charging for cabin luggage? (like Spirit and Wizzair)
3. Product Innovation
• 3.3 Complexity
• Some innovations fail because they are perceived as being extremely difficult to use, requiring purchasers to invest a great deal of time and effort
• Nok Air has a policy of not collecting irrelevant passengers’ data (DOB, passport no, etc.) This is a double-edged sword for CRM Analysis.
3. Product Innovation
• 3.4 4. Divisibility
• It is often easier to persuade consumers to take a series of short steps, rather than one very large and risky one.
• The principle of Divisibility is very well illustrated by the growing popularity of so-called Fractional Ownership schemes for business jets. (In which the manufacturer expect the fractional owners will buy the plane outright at the later stage
3. Product Innovation
• 3.5 Communicability
• Customers are unlikely to be persuaded to buy a product if the benefits this product will bring cannot be communicated to them persuasively.
• Miscommunication and the so called ‘internet drama’ is very difficult to handle by airlines
Innovations: in Aircraft Manufacturing Factors
• Stagnation in Technology• Duopolistic market Market power A v B / Particularly pronounced in the
regional aircraft segment.• No willpower to produce radicalised design - NO Longer about speed
- Fuel Efficiency Only focus since 1970- Engine- ETOPs- Material- Manufacturing Process
Development First Flight: 1903
Oldest airline with continuing ops (95 years)
Progress:
WW I -> Air Mail
Colonial powers: The golden age of flying boat
WWII -> Long range passenger planes
Fast-paced development in technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4s2spL0O0Q&list=PLDF12C831C41E1B44&index=4
History: The Flying Public (60s-80s)• Safe and reliable
• The Jet Age
• Sexual Appeal
• The Jumbo jets – Unit cost
• The deregulation – Free competition
• Oil crisis – cartel
• The rise and fall of Concorde – Govt spending
• The fall of British jets – Govt intervention
• The charters – unit cost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9bVFkDhGPE
4. Product Life Cycle in the Aviation Industry: Boeing
4. Product Life Cycle in the Aviation Industry: Airbus
- ETOPS revolution
- Engine Change
Sonic Cruiser 7E7 Dreamliner
Regional Aircraft: Lack of replacement
The Future: Green and Efficiency
Problem with Airport configuration!
Practicality
Economic questions
Passenger Acceptance
The Harsh Reality
Key Take Away
• Stagnation
• Airline has no market power
• Where next?
Innovation In Airline Industry
• Following Touch Points: Pain Points!
• Remember Innovations cover all marketing aspects!
• Digitisation
• Personalisation
• Seamless Experience
• Automation
• Underlying Points: Driven by Costs // Profit Maximisation Through marketing
Innovation: Distribution
• Lesser-developed markets appears to be much more innovative than developed ones.
• Primarily led by the growth of LCC sectors (Thailand is a prominent example
• PAYMENT CHANNEL: Absolutely Vital
• E-commerce
• Online Travel Agency
Online Innovation: Chatbot
Online Innovation: Chatbot
Online Innovation: One transaction takes time
Speech Recognition: Useful in the US
Farelock
Social Listening // CRM or spamming?
Mobile web/App: fastest growing
• Thais are particularly addicted to mobile phone
• Nok Air has 21% from mobile we have dedicted mobile department – Most are from app than m.web
Payment Channel
Innovation: Check-in
• Telephone Check-in
• LCC – Compulsory auto check-in
• Ticket / Boarding pass (single
fleet)
• IT is the key stumbling block
Early/Overnight Check-inCity Check-in Train Station Check-in
Gate/Lounge Checkin (mostly disappeared after 9-11)
Automation Pro and cons?
Labour IssueCostImplementationAirport Operator ApprovalPassenger Acceptant!
E Tag: Self-printed, E-ink, GPS, RFID
Boarding:
: IFE
- Audio- Feature film- Personal Screen- AVOD- Larger screens- Touch Screen- What’s next?
BYO // Connectivity // Power Outlets // Personalisation
Panasonic Waterfront Concept
Seats
- Lounge Chair- Flat Bed- Aisle Access
777 Cabin: JAL v Philippine Airlines
EconomyLight and Slim
IPAD Holder
Seat Recline
Innovation: Making Money out of thin air
Air New Zealand: Innovation for sale
Premium Economy Led by EVA Air
Fill the market gap
Business Class:Highly innovative
Business Class Development
• Hardshell
• Privacy
• Aisle Access
• Connectivity
• Power Port
• Working/Resting
First Class: Increasingly matched by Business class
In-flight lounge
Business Concept Innovation
Service InnovationJetblue: Mint Service
Compared with US Airways
Narrow-bodied Transatlantic
Openskies FFP as advantage
BA Sleeper (No-cost Innovation)/A318
- Shuttle Service (Go-show) on important airbridges
Lounge
SAS City/Gate Lounge
7. Airline Product
Fly and Ride, Fly and Ferry
Premium Seat: No-cost innovation
Ancillary Revenue Innovation
TUI: Using BYOD to order meals
Customised buy on board meal: Air Baltic
VR for Premium Economy Upgrade
Inflight Payment: MTR // Applepay
Airport
Airport Nature
• Physical Constraints
• Largely monopolistic – low incentive to improve efficiencies // Partly or wholely government owned
• Non-Aeronautical revenues
Airport Innovation: Airport Access
Transportation to and from the airport is important
Think about UTP
Pre Clearance
Amenities
Airport Innovation: Air Traffic Management
Airport Innovation: London City Airport
Virtual Control Tower
compared with SVB?
Airport Innovation: AMS/SIN
Innovation: Heathrow
Airport Innovation: Environment
Airline Innovation Sources:
Air Shows
• Farnborough
• Paris Air Salon
• Singapore Airshow : Next February
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