Articles about IdeaWorksCompany

Airlines’ Drive To Grow Extra Fees And Services Is Paying Off Big — For Them
Forbes
Sixteen out of every $100 that American Airlines collected from its customers in 2018 came from the sale of something other than seats on a plane, according to a recent study from IdeaWorks. At United it was $14 out of every $100 in revenue. Delta got $12.50 out of every $100 it was paid for things other than a ticket.  Meanwhile maverick Southwest Airlines, the granddaddy of low cost/low fare carriers, outdid its conventional rivals by scoring $18 out of every $100 of revenue last year from the sale of services beyond a basic flight ticket.

FluggesellschaftenA verdienen Milliarden durch Zusatzeinnahmen
Airliners.de
Zusatzeinkünfte machen bei Fluggesellschaften einen immer wichtigeren Teil der Umsätze aus. Eine neue Studie zeigt, wie viel auch Netzwerk-Airlines mittlerweile durch die sogenannten Ancillaries verdienten.  Das geht aus einer aktuellen Studie des Technologiedienstleisters “CarTrawler” und der Beratungsgesellschaft “IdeaWorksCompany” hervor.
Translated from German:  Additional income makes up an increasingly important part of revenue for airlines. A new study shows how much network airlines have now earned through the so-called Ancillaries.  This emerges from a recent study by the technology service provider “CarTrawler” and the consulting company “IdeaWorksCompany”.

Airline award seats cheaper, easier to find. Wait. What?
Houston Chronicle
The 2019 study of airline award travel by IdeaWorks Company found that not only has free seat availability improved this year compared with 2018 on most carriers, but that over the past five years – i.e., since dynamic award pricing started to kick in – the average mileage/point cost of an economy class reward ticket on major U.S. airlines has declined significantly.

The Best Frequent-Flier Awards Programs of 2019
The Wall Street Journal
IdeaWorks president Jay Sorensen says award programs have needed to become more generous. Among the biggest factors: They’re feeling pressure from credit card companies that buy billions of dollars of miles from airlines each year as rewards on credit cards. If it’s too difficult to redeem the miles, consumers will switch to other cards with rewards they can actually use.
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Revenue Raisers
Low Fare & Regional Airlines Magazine
IdeaWorks has been tracking the growth of airline ancillary revenues – defined as revenue beyond the sale of tickets that is generated by direct sales to passengers or indirectly as a part of the travel  experience – since 2010. For 2018, in conjunction with technology platform CarTrawler, IdeaWorks estimated total airline ancillary revenue at $92.9 billion – a 312% increase on the 2010
figure of $22.6 billion and 10.7% of the industry’s global $871 billion revenue.

Airlines’ credit cards in ‘arms race’ to profits
Travel Weekly
Last November, IdeaWorksCompany estimated that U.S. airlines in 2018 would make approximately $15.6 billion in combined revenue from the sale of credit card points and from commissions from sales of partner products such as car rentals and travel insurance. Of that $15.6 billion, approximately $14 billion was expected to come from credit card points, Sorensen said.