Welcome to AAEconomics

Introduction
Amsterdam Aviation Economics (AAE) is an institute, based in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, focusing almost exclusively on aviation economics. AAE advises all four distinct bodies in the aviation sector: airlines, airports, air navigation service providers and government authorities dealing with aviation issues.

AAE combines advanced academic economic expertise with detailed empirical knowledge of the aviation industry, based on a long track record of its staff in the air-transport sector. AAE experts participate actively in an international scientific network that enables them to exchange academic expertise with colleagues all over the world. AAE applies its expertise in particular on research projects related to the following issues:
  • Public sector issues, including privatization, regulation of airport charges, (de)regulation of aviation markets and (re)organization of (inter)national aviation authorities
  • Strategic issues, including SWOT-analysis, strategic air network planning, modeling networks of airlines and alliances, airport forecasting, modeling airport capacity constraints, strategic and economic aspects of ‘hub-and-spoke’ networks, development of low cost carrier networks and other competition issues in aviation
  • Economic issues, including social cost benefit analysis, benchmark studies for airport charges and airport performance, market based solutions for slot allocation and noise emission rights and issues on relationships between aviation and other economic sectors, tourism in particular
  • Business issues, including the evaluation of airport infrastructure projects or business plans and air cargo logistic issues
AAE has developed specific competences in airline network development, which it applies in the following areas:
  • Risk and opportunity analysis of long term airport infrastructure investments
  • Feasibility of new "greenfield" airports
  • Market opportunities for possible new air routes
  • Estimating connectivity of airports
  • Optimizing revenues in wave systems at hubs
AAE has developed specific analytical tools, which may be helpful for abovementioned distinct bodies and issues:
  • NetScan: a model measuring connectivity performance of airlines and airports in direct and indirect (hub-and-spoke) networks and comparing connectivity performance of airlines and airports (also over time)
  • NetCost: a model measuring network quality in (generalized) travel costs and expressing the social value of airline networks for airports and its surrounding regions
  • AviaDem: an aviation forecasting model, assessing implications of market growth, capacity constraints and specific airline (and alliance) network strategies

Aviation economics and policy executive courses
We offer various courses in aviation economics and policy for policymakers and professionals working in the aviation industry. Read more about our courses.

Scientific research
The staff of AAE publish in scientific journals regularly and give presentations at (international) conferences. For an impression of the publications, click here.

New!

Netscan: connectivity of aviation - and airline networks

NetScan provides an analysis of the physical characteristics of airline networks: destinations served and frequency on specific destinations specified to relevant dimensions including airline, origin destination, departure and arrival times. The added value of this type of analysis is that not only direct, but also indirect connections are taken into account. click here for a detailed description of NetScan and here for an example of a calculation of the connectivity between to specific airports (CPH - BKK). 

Northwest Airlines market share forecast at Heathrow

"Northwest services out of Heathrow are likely to be succesful in a EU-US Open Skies market". Download the AAE research paper.

A multi-aiport system in the Netherlands?

"The design of an airport system in the Netherlands?" Jaap de Wit reflects on the challenges for and effectiveness of an airport system in the Netherlands.  

"An airport system for the Netherlands?" AAE has published a report on the possibility of an airport system for the Netherlands, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Transport (in Dutch).