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Make the right strategic choices based on best information and unique industry insight from IATA 

To ensure your nation fully benefits from the advantages aviation provides, you need to understand the impact and contribution your organization makes on the economy and the wider society. Without accurate data, benchmarking information, and knowledge of how the industry will evolve, making policy and investment decisions is risky.

IATA Consulting’s Economics experts can provide you with the information you need, following a customized assessment of the direct, indirect, induced and catalytic impacts of your aviation organization, leveraging unique industry data and insight.

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Grow where the opportunities are

Independent advisors with economics and aviation expertise provide customized solutions to your analytical requirements and enable you to: 

  • Understand your organization’s impact and contribution – Our assessment can show you how your airport’s location affects accessibility and employment, trade in general, and particular economic sectors, such as innovation and knowledge.  
  • Identify new opportunities for growth – IATA’s insight into broader industry, economic, and regulatory trends can reveal opportunities for expansion to support your advocacy efforts and optimize return on investment. 
  • Invest intelligently – Our economic and social impact studies give you pertinent information to prioritize and schedule investment that will benefit the surrounding region and your country as whole. 

Obtain unique industry insight

IATA Economics consultants have a truly global view of the industry, through data, standards and hands-on experience in the many regions of the world.  

  • Get the industry expertise you need IATA Consulting specialists advise through a lens of aviation knowledge, rooted in data and observations, as well as expertise in their chosen field of economics. 
  • Benefit from data contributed by industry stakeholders IATA consultants have unparalleled access to the world’s traffic data, and leverage IATA’s manuals, industry surveys, and sophisticated models in our studies. 
  • Measure yourself against industry standards and benchmarks – As part of a global organization, working across the entire aviation value chain, IATA Consulting can give you the references you need to gauge your performance. 

Select the analyses most useful to you

IATA’s Economics experts economic and social impact and contribution by looking at the following factors: 

  • Direct, indirect and induced impact Assessing: 
    • Airport revenue reserves and profit distribution
    • Cost of goods/services from suppliers
    • Salaries
    • Taxes
    • Effect on GDP 
  • Catalytic impact – Looking at how airport location affects:
    • Accessibility, including expenditure and employment
    • Cargo and trade, and associated employment, as well as the advantage for the agglomeration and impact on the transit system  
    • Innovation and Knowledge Intensive Sectors (KIS), and providing access to knowledge institutions, art and culture

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