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No-frills/Low-cost Airlines- UK

Published by: Mintel International Group Ltd.

Published: Jul. 1, 2007 - 103 Pages


Table of Contents


ISSUES IN THE MARKET

Main issues

Definitions

ABBREVIATIONS

MARKET IN BRIEF

No frills, no change

Sitting comfortably, but sales vulnerable

Irish Tiger

We wanna get loaded

The battle for incremental revenue

A low cost to the environment

Eastern promise

America…the land of the free thinking

Blood on the tracks

Triple trouble

INTERNAL MARKET ENVIRONMENT

Key points:

Fuel for thought

Stansted Excess

Storm clouds of clean air on the horizon

Rail, rail, rail against the flying of the flight

Britain takes off

Figure 1: Domestic and overseas holidays, by volume, 2002-07

No-frills take bills overseas

Figure 2: Domestic and overseas holidays expenditure, 2002-07

Figure 3: Average spend per trip, 2002-07

Spain and Italy open up

Figure 4: Top 20 destinations, by number of visits, 2002-05

Holiday multipacks

Figure 5: Percentage of adults booking UK and overseas holidays, 2002-06

Getting on board for homes abroad

The EU spreads its wings

BROADER MARKET ENVIRONMENT

Key points:

Travel at all costs

New blood and old heads

Socio-economic population

Lifestage heading

Internet penetration

Consumer spending priorities

Figure 6: UK spending priorities, January 2007

Exchange rates

COMPETITIVE CONTEXT

Figure 7: Scheduled passengers carried, 2002-06

Load capacity

Figure 8: UK scheduled load capacity (seat km used as part of seat km available), 2002 and 2006

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IN THE MARKET

Strengths

Weaknesses

MARKET SIZE AND FORECAST

Key points:

Massive millennial growth…

Figure 9: Scheduled passengers carried by main low-cost airlines, 2002-06

…but load factors raise fears

Figure 10: Ryanair load factors, 2006 and 2007

Figure 11: easyJet load factors, 2006 and 2007

FUTURE OUTLOOK

Passenger growth rates slowing

Figure 12: Passengers of four major low cost carriers Easyjet, Ryanair, Flybe & Bmibaby

Taxation and trains

FACTORS USED IN THE FORECAST

SEGMENT PERFORMANCE

Key points:

Regionalisation of airport usage

Figure 13: Airports used in the last 12 months, 2002-06

Figure 14: Passenger movements (scheduled and chartered) at UK airports, 2000-05

How much and how close?

Figure 15: Most important factor when choosing which airline to fly with on holiday, 2002-06

Figure 16: Most important factor when choosing which airline to fly with on business, 2002-06

MARKET SHARE

Key points:

Figure 17: Number of active aircraft, July 2007

Airline capacity

Figure 18: UK scheduled airline capacity statistics, 2002 and 2006

COMPANIES AND PRODUCTS

Key points:

UK-BASED CARRIERS

bmibaby

Figure 19: bmibaby statistics, 2007

Background

Strategy

easyJet

Figure 20: easyJet statistics, 2007

Background

Performance

Figure 21: easyJet financial year performance, 2006 and 2007

Figure 22: easyJet full-year performance, 2005 and 2006

Figure 23: easyJet half-year performance, 2006 and 2007

Figure 24: easyJet 12-month performance, 2006 and 2007

Chasing ancillary revenues

Figure 25: easyJet ancillary revenues, 2005 and 2006

Strategy and recent activity

Orange as the new green

Outlook

Flybe

Figure 26: Flybe statistics, 2007

Background

French frills

Recent activity

Acquisition of BA Connect

Flybe Green

Outlook

Jet2

Figure 27: Jet2 statistics, 2007

Monarch

Figure 28: Monarch statistics, 2007

Background

Performance

Strategy

Zoom Airlines

Figure 29: Zoom statistics, 2007

OVERSEAS-BASED CARRIERS

Air Berlin

Figure 30: Air Berlin statistics, 2007

Background

Performance

Figure 31: Air Berlin performance, 2005 and 2006

Strategy

Figure 32: Air Berlin revenue contribution from additional products and services, 2006

Outlook

Brussels Airlines

Figure 33: Brussels Airlines statistics, 2007

Background

Norwegian

Figure 34: Norwegian statistics, 2007

Figure 35: Norwegian performance, 2004-06

Ryanair

Figure 36: Ryanair statistics, 2007

‘Lowest fare wins’

Soaraway success, but still passenger-dependent

Figure 37: Ryanair performance, 2003-06

Figure 38: Ryanair financial performance, 2006 and 2007

Figure 39: Ryanair bases and routes, 2007

Figure 40: Ryanair table of fees, 2007

The Ryanair passenger

Figure 41: Ryanair passenger profile, 2007

The world’s most/least favourite airline

Conservative in old age

Figure 42: Ryanair passenger forecast, 2007-12

Flying billboards

Aer Lingus merger

Outlook

SkyEurope

Figure 43: SkyEurope statistics, 2007

Figure 44: SkyEurope performance, 2006 and 2007

Smart Wings

Figure 45: Smart Wings statistics, 2007

Transavia

Figure 46: Transavia statistics, 2007

Background

Performance

Figure 47: Transavia performance, 2002/03-2006/07

Strategy

Wizz Air

Figure 48: Wizz Air statistics, 2007

Background

OTHER CARRIERS

JetBlue

Figure 49: JetBlue statistics, 2007

Background

JetBluesky thinking

Southwest Airlines

Figure 50: Southwest Airlines statistics, 2007

Background

Leading by example

Virgin Blue, Pacific Blue and Polynesian Blue

Figure 51: Statistics, 2007

Background

Strategy

DISTRIBUTION

Key points:

Figure 52: Selected online sales statistics, 2007

USE OF LOW-COST AIRLINES

Key points:

Figure 53: Low-cost airline flying experience, March 2007

FLYING BY DEMOGRAPHICS

Demographics: No frills; no change

Who are the low-cost passengers?

Passengers fly high and low

LOW-COST FLYING HABITS

Key points:

Figure 54: Flying habits of low-cost airline passengers, March 2007

Spinning a bigger Web

EasyShop

Smile high club

Habits by demographics

Eat, drink and be ancillary

Routes to revenue

APPENDIX: DATABASE

BROADER MARKET ENVIRONMENT DATA

Figure 55: Trends in personal disposable income and consumer expenditure, 2002-12

Figure 56: Trends in the age structure of the UK population, by gender, 2002-12

Figure 57: Forecast adult population trends, by socio-economic group, 2002-12

Figure 58: Forecast adult population trends, by lifestage, 2002-12

Figure 59: Internet penetration, by gender, socio-economic group and age, 2002-06

Figure 60: Annual average exchange rates for Sterling against the euro and US Dollar, 2002-06

CONSUMER DEMOGRAPHICS

Figure 61: Low-cost flying experience, by gender, age, socio-economic group, marital status, lifestage,

presence of children, Mintel’s Special Groups, working status, household income, tenure, region, ACORN

category, media usage, TV reception, supermarket usage, household size, car ownership, detailed lifestage

groups, age/socio-economic group and terminal education age, March 2007

Figure 62: Further low-cost flying experience, by gender, age, socio-economic group, marital status,

lifestage, presence of children, Mintel’s Special Groups, working status, household income, tenure, region,

ACORN category, media usage, TV reception, supermarket usage, household size, car ownership, detailed

lifestage groups, age/socio-economic group and terminal education age, March 2007

Figure 63: Habits of low-cost airline passengers, by gender, age, socio-economic group, marital status,

lifestage, presence of children, Mintel’s Special Groups, working status, household income, tenure, region,

ACORN category, media usage, TV reception, supermarket usage, household size, car ownership, detailed

lifestage groups, age/socio-economic group and terminal education age, March 2007

Figure 64: Most popular attitudes towards low-cost airlines, by gender, age, socio-economic group, marital

status, lifestage, presence of children, Mintel’s Special Groups, working status, household income, tenure,

region, ACORN category, media usage, TV reception, supermarket usage, household size, car ownership,

detailed lifestage groups, age/socio-economic group and terminal education age, March 2007

Figure 65: Further attitudes towards low-cost airlines, by gender, age, socio-economic group, marital status,

lifestage, presence of children, Mintel’s Special Groups, working status, household income, tenure, region,

ACORN category, media usage, TV reception, supermarket usage, household size, car ownership, detailed

lifestage groups, age/socio-economic group and terminal education age, March 2007

Figure 66: Scheduled airlines brand map, May 2007

APPENDIX: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Abstract

Soaring fuel costs and impending EU Emissions measures spell danger for the industry. Load factors are also slipping, as a ‘golden period’ of fleet expansion threatens to cause a state of ‘over-capacity’.

To maintain the cheap ticket model, carriers are going to have to drastically raise their ancillary revenues (in-flight sales, charges and add-ons) and increasingly expand into accommodation and transfer services, in order to cope with the economic and legislative storms they are flying towards.

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