Aviation

Dublin Airport is the main base for two of the fastest growing and profitable airlines in Europe, Ryanair and Aer Lingus. The airport infrastructure has not been able to keep pace with the passenger growth or the increasing connecting traffic through to North America and Europe.

The CEO of Aer Lingus approached our team to carry out an in-depth benchmarking exercise to compare the airline with industry ‘best practice’ at leading low-cost and leisure carriers.

PA Consulting’s David Huttner, commercial aviation lead, comments on Europe’s aviation crisis

Digital transformation at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is key to its future sustainability in a sector that faces huge challenges around reducing environmental impact, improving the passenger experience and running a large operational workforce efficiently.

We worked with Panasonic Avionics to design an immersive, easily upgradeable seat-back video viewing console for aircraft.

Agreement was reached between the European Parliament, the Council, and the Commission on the EU’s future sustainable aviation fuel mandate. From 2025, the ReFuelEU Aviation proposal will define requirements on SAF-uplift at EU airports.

PA's Pieter Kamstra discusses the complexity of Schiphol Airport's turnaround process and how their AI solution has proven to be solid, reliable and scalable.

To make the aviation sector greener, airlines must cooperate and share knowledge. SkyTeam's Sustainable Flight Challenge sets a good example with an annual challenge in which competitors work together to find sustainable solutions.

PA Consulting welcomes Kata Cserep as its Global Aviation Lead.

Green hydrogen is critical to replace fossil fuel produced ‘grey’ hydrogen – used mainly in refining and fertiliser production – and to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors like steel production, shipping, aviation, and possibly some heavy goods vehicles.