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Impact Analysis New EU-Regulation

Which financial impact will a new EU-regulation have on an airline and an airport and how to derive countermeasures?

Challenge

In course of the implementation of new border regulations at the Schengen border, waiting and processing times at the border were expected to increase at a large European hub airport.
In consequence, its main home base carrier had to evaluate the impact of prolonged times at the Schengen border on the passenger misconnection rate within the hub.

Approach

Conves has been supporting the impact analysis from August to November 2024:

  • Analysis of total airline passengers at the hub impacted by the new regulation
  • Modelling of current and future waiting and processing times at the border
  • Evaluation of sensitivity of various assumptions/variables through scenario analysis
  • Review of connection times from a planning and operational perspective
  • Estimation of financial impact posed by the new border regulation

Impact

Potential Levers

Key Takeaways

Major achievements of the project were:

  • Creation of a decision basis for initial mitigating measures
  • Re-evaluation of current planning values for new process times and new schedules
  • Positive engagement of stakeholders from airline and airport in joint project team