The 2025 Yearbook of Ancillary Revenue reveals a cashflow shift: ancillary revenue increased while fares dropped. The 2025 edition of the Yearbook of Ancillary Revenue by IdeaWorksCompany, released today, describes ancillary revenue activities and results for 61 airlines in 2024, continuing the publication’s role as the industry’s singular voice for 18 years. The results in […]
This report spotlights successful ancillary strategies from leading global carriers. Airlines chasing the next revenue breakthrough need look no further. IdeaWorksCompany, the world’s leading authority on airline ancillary revenue, has released an 18-page report: Eight Ideas We Admire to Boost Airline Revenue. The study reveals how these creative practices from airlines around the world are
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Airlines chasing the next revenue breakthrough need look no further. IdeaWorksCompany, the world’s leading authority on airline ancillary revenue, has released an 18-page report: Eight Ideas We Admire to Boost Airline Revenue. The study reveals how these creative practices from airlines around the world are reshaping the way carriers increase profits while improving the passenger
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Forbes Magazine It is said that the only thing to know about running an airline is this: “Fly the airplanes on time and answer the goddamn telephone.” Truthfully, there is probably a bit more to it. Last week, longtime airline executive and consultant Jay Sorensen issued a report entitled “Fly High, Land Right: Ten Life
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In one sense, the travel industry is built to serve its investors by delivering profits. A more balanced approach would have airlines, hotels, car rental firms and more seeking to well serve investors, employees, and customers. The industry has been inconsistent – but it need not be. “This report is offered to those working in
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In one sense, the travel industry is built to serve its investors by delivering profits. A more balanced approach would have airlines, hotels, car rental firms and more seeking to well serve investors, employees, and customers. The industry has been inconsistent – but it need not be. “This report is offered to those working in
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IdeaWorksCompany identifies the ancillary revenue methods of 10 brave pandemic-era startups in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the US. New airlines compete by identifying customers who are not well served by larger and established carriers. This is the secret to surviving as a start-up airline: find an underserved market and apply all the youthful passion and
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New airlines compete by identifying customers who are not well served by larger and established carriers. This is the secret to surviving as a start-up airline: find an underserved market and apply all the youthful passion and nimble moves you can muster. That’s how these 10 low cost carriers hope to flourish in a post-pandemic
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Advice to Airline Managers – Don’t be Paralyzed by the 2022 Consumer Challenge is sponsored by global travel tech provider CarTrawler and was released today. The report includes a chart listing the Covid era change and cancellation policies for 25 leading global network and low cost carriers. The 14-page report by IdeaWorksCompany is a call
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CarTrawler-sponsored analysis describes how the airline industry must move past being a “deer in the headlights” and accept that the business of travel has changed. “I remain quite optimistic for the summer of 2022,” is a quote you will likely hear from dozens of airline CEOs this winter. It’s human nature to hope for the