Restructuring Regional Aviation
Headed up by Ian Woodley and Graeme Ross, with a combined 75 years of experience, Regional Connect are a team of Air Transport Executives with a comprehensive understanding of the industry and how it is evolving.
Providing
Network Development
Network and Fleet Planning
Airline Start-up
Route Start-up
Primary Revenue Analysis
Ancillary Revenue Analysis
Focus
Regional Market Expertise
Value Chain Benefits to Regional Markets
Working with Airports and Regional Authorities
Un-served and Under-served Market potential
Business Planning
Choosing the right business model
Risk Analysis and Risk Mitigation Models
Resourcing and Human Factors
Investment
Focus on aircraft acquisition/leasing
Advising on Co-investment Models
Spreading the Risk
Regional Aviation Is Our Expertise
Regional Air Services
• Essential Air Services
• PSO
• Tertiary Markets and
Emerging Opportunities
Non-Scheduled Revenue Streams
• Capacity Purchase Models
• ACMI Charter
• Sole Use Charter
• Seasonal Leisure Charter
Assessment
• Airline assessment
• Understanding Growth factors
•Quality of Service Indicators
•Competitive Performance Indicators and Trend Analysis
Hub Development
• Co-op with Hub Carriers
• Super Code-shares
• Essential Air Services
•Commercial and Operational Benefits/Challenges
Over the years we have been instrumental in opening up a wide variety of key regional routes from secondary cities throughout the UK and mainland Europe predominantly feeding into capitals and hubs.
Increasingly, over the last 10 years, the regional scheduled airline industry has been in decline - with numerous regional airlines having ceased trading, in many cases, leaving key cities underserved as the major network carriers focus on protecting hub networks, in the face of LCC competition, serving capital cities and intercontinental routes and through fleet capacity upsizing.
With the remaining few regional operators increasingly risk averse there is a need to re-engineer the business model, the value chain and the role of the regional, whereby cities and regionals need to partner with each other to maintain/re establish these key services to ensure vital connectivity.
Ian Woodley
Ian Woodley is a leader and skilled negotiator who makes vision a reality by high performance motivation of loyal and focused skilled teams - Grounded in financial and network optimization of the Airline business with a strong customer service ethic and identifying clear opportunities for partnership growth. Developing results through strategic planning.
Previously Ian made history as the UK's youngest start-up regional airline Owner, Founder and Chairman of award winning Airline Business Air. The airline specialized in combined daytime passenger schedules and extensive overnight postal operations. Ian consequently became the highest utilization operator of the Embraer and Saab aircraft type.
Graeme Ross
Graeme Ross is a Partner at Regional Connect and has worked with Ian for over 30 years in numerous aviation related business. Graeme is an experienced aviation director, and was co-founder alongside Ian of award-winning UK regional airline, Business Air.
Over the last 30 years, Graeme has accumulated significant experience in a multitude of roles in the airline business. He is specialized in business forecasting and financial analysis as well as having overseen airline flight, ground and engineering operations.
Recent assignments & responsibilities
• BMI Regional: Project Director for projects with a commercial focus
• BMI Regional: Director Network Planning and Business Development.
• Acquisition team responsible for buying BMI Regional from LH Group/IAG British Airways in 2012
• Director: UK regional airline Eastern Airways
• British Midland Commuter: Director and General Manager
• Business Air: Co-founder
