Currently, business aviation is giving rise to a new market in aeronautical industry: the on-demand, per-seat air taxi service. Improved technology, higher efficiency and lower airport fees (due a transition to secondary airports) have promoted the use of business jets as a more popular means of transportation. In this model, Very Light jets offer an alternative option for distances flown by regular airlines or even traveled by automobiles. Several established manufacturers such as EMBRAER and Cessna have launched products to capture a market share of this new segment. There are also newer companies and startups such as Adam Aircraft industries and Eclipse Aviation that are building their first jets as competitor of the two companies above. In order to assess the competitiveness of these projects and the potential for this new market, a cost analysis tool was used to assess a hypothetical air-taxi operator in Europe using a parametric analysis. The influence of primary and secondary factors on the coast and operational margin was studied and the pricing strategy was compared to current business jet charter options from Charter X and airline tickets from Orbitz.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:agregador.ibict.br.BDTD_ITA:oai:ita.br:2914 |
| Date | 04 October 2006 |
| Creators | Marcelo Haddad Silva |
| Contributors | Ligia Maria Soto Urbina, Antonini Puppin |
| Publisher | Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do ITA, instname:Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, instacron:ITA |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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