Assessing Airline Risk Accurately

It’s never been more difficult to analyze a prospective lessee’s credit risk and many owners and lessors simply assume the risk and, too often, the resulting negative impact on their business. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Airlift’s sophisticated and reliable analytical system is independent of data provided by prospective lessees.

Using an airline’s current schedule as the starting point to produce the detail of an airline’s revenue and cost structure, Airlift analyzes the data departure by departure, route by route and aircraft by aircraft to evaluate it in its most basic elements. With the resulting profile as the basis for initial qualification, a more intensive analysis can be done quickly and effectively, if warranted.

Airlift reports provide concise assessments, including pro-forma P&L, assessment of route structure, scheduling philosophy, competitive position and probability of success. The quality of our feasibility reports often provides a more accurate measure of an airline’s viability than its senior management enjoys.

We do it fast, typically producing a report within a week without ever leaving the office or incurring travel expenses, much different from the current industry standard of weeks to compile and multiple on-site visits.