Lehpron From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 7028 posts, RR: 22 Posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 2697 times:
In my business class we learned about a statistic called "80/20" which states that 80 percent of sales comes from 20 percent of the customer base. This was with regards to B2C (business to consumer) retail sales.
Can or does this statistic apply to airlines, that 80% of flight tickets are bought by 20% of total paying passengers, i.e. the business traveller or frequent flyer? Are they who the airlines target new promotions to?
What about the other 80%, vacationers and seasonal folks and sweepstakes winners?
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Lehpron From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 7028 posts, RR: 22 Reply 2, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 2661 times:
Well I'd imagine that low-cost fare airlines will have higher percentages and high cost will have lower. But if those that fly most often are such a small percentage compared to everyone else, then the airline literally depends on their business to stay alive, correct? So when price wars occurs between airlines, the airline may loose a crucial chunch of revenue and cannot survive on its remaining 80% of customers who provide only 20% of revenue, so to speak.
In terms of newer aviation technology applied to the commercial sector, who could that be geared to or which passengers matters most?
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Lehpron From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 7028 posts, RR: 22 Reply 4, posted (9 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 2572 times:
5-95? DAMN, why do I get the impression of a small airline! Somehow I keep thinking that those airlines would be either really popular or simply has really popular flights/fares.
What about purely overwater flight? Like LAX-HKG or LHR-JFK, etc.? similar percentage?
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Deltaffindfw From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 1383 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (9 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 2561 times:
Celestar - the 80/20 rule cannot be applied to first vs coach seats. It needs to be applied to business traveler vs leisure (or high dollar vs low dollar ticket). I spend $1000/week on average to fly for business. When I fly DL, I upgrade for free to first class. Since I'm not Exec. Plat. on American, I fly coach.
Lufthansa From Christmas Island, joined May 1999, 3074 posts, RR: 10 Reply 6, posted (9 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2499 times:
Lehpron
Be vary careful about things you learn in business school. I am currently doing my masters in Economics, having already completed undergraduate economics, and I know exactly the statistics you are talking about.
These are generalizations. When one talks about generalizations, they usually apply in sectors as a whole..... But when you look at individual product items it can vary significantly.... Look at your t-tail test and confidence intervals..... There is a lot of room for variation. You really need to run a regression on your individual product type as a whole...
When you look at something small, simple smaller consumer items. Lets take coffee or jeans. Then you will find those sorts of rules are approximately normal. Simple smaller transactions that everybody can afford generally follow such trends. But complicated high end or expensive goods don't more often than not. Something you also need to consider is the elasticity of demand. That too will have a significant impact... As we have seen with the worldwide fall in demand for short haul firstclass travel (paid at a full price at is...We're not counting upgrades here)
You really need to think about that... These sorts of figures are thrown out around the world and generally accountants don't have the slightest clue why the are following them. I am going to suggest you take some economics classes... Particularly Mirco-economics if you are interested in that.... teaches you how to think. Warren Buffet has long been critical of business schools around the world for pumping out graduates who can't think...and just blindly accept and follow. He went from nothing to a Billionaire worth about $45 billion (it may be more now) so I think he may understand what he's talking about. So, no, I doubt this applies to aviation. What is probably of more interest to us is what the lifetime value of different market segments are. That is a statistic we can use to focus on revenue growth(which isn't necessarily profit either, although it may be).
Deltaffindfw From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 1383 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (9 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 2485 times:
Don't take too many econ classes - remember econ is theory, not reality...
Just kidding - that's the finance major in me. I agree with Lufthansa that the airline industry is not a good measure of the 80/20 rule. That being said, many other areas of business do fall in that category. In my field, financial services/investment management, that rule definately applies!
InnocuousFox From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2805 posts, RR: 16 Reply 8, posted (9 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 2447 times:
40% of air passengers in the states are business travelers.
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