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Global CompetitiveBenchmarking for AirportsA unique and beneficial approach
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Introduction
Airport managers are used to external benchmarking on general topics such as traffic, quality, or
high-level business performance. However, most benchmarking initiatives are too high level and
do not compare "apples to apples", leaving the airport with the question: So what?
The complex nature of the industry, constraints on data availability, and limited comparability
have been an issue with benchmarking so far. These approaches have been outside-in or limited
to certain functions of the airport, such as non-aviation performance. There has been no method-
ology out in the market providing a complete and comparable set of benchmarks on all airport-
specific business units.
Hence, A.T. Kearney designed the GCBthe Global Competitive Benchmarking for Airports.
It spans all airport activities, comparing your data with inside-out data of other airports, while
providing absolute data confidentiality. The GCB helps improve the airport across all businesses.
The level of aggregation can be modified from a holistic picture to very specific drill-downs oversix levels of detail.
The identification of improvement areas is realized by comparing financial data and key perfor-
mance drivers with operational best practices. The GCB insights can be used for a multitude of
objectives, such as restructuring, cost control, revenue improvement, mergers and acquisitions,
budgeting and performance steering.
The methodology of data standardization behind the GCBto overcome various accountingpractices and national differenceshas proven itself for more than ten years and has been
successfully adopted to the airport industry for more than four years. The GCB airport panel
covers more than international airport operators in and is growing steadily.
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UniqueGCB is different from all other
benchmarks because ...
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... it addresses revenues, cost and capex ...
Scope of GCB for Airports
The data collected covers all financial data of an airport giving a holistic
picture of the participants' competitiveness
GCB benchmark scope
Airport-related business
Performance gap quantification
OPEX
Process-related costs
Aviation
Non-aviation
Safety & security
Ground handling
IT
Support and overhead
Infrastructure
development
Aviation revenues
Central infra-
structure fees
Retail revenues
CAPEX on
Aviation
Non-aviation
Security
Complementary analyses
Revenues
Revenues
CAPEX
Investments
Performance and
long term
Remaining costs
Total airport profit and loss (on a one-airport basis)
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it creates real comparability ...
Three steps of GCB
GCB collects data in a standardized form and performs various
analyses to yield comparable results
Input
Standardized input
into user-friendly
allocation tools
Consistent due to a
large set of precise
definitions in the
GCB manual
Analysis
Harmonization to
adjust for country-
specific price levels
Normalization with
cost and revenue
drivers
Output
Process-related
Dashboard on all
airport activities
Detailed analyses for
each activityup to
six levels of drill-down
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it assures data quality and security.
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BeneficialGCB provides insights and
tangible results such as
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Infra-
structure
GCB Dashboard
The "Dashboard" provides an overview on the performance of the
operator consolidated on main activities Sanitized
Aviation
xxx xxx
Airside
operations
xxxx xxx
Airside
facilities
xxxx xxx
Terminal
operations
xxx x
Terminal
facilities
xxxx x
Baggage
systems
xxx x
Access andintercon-
nectivity
xxxx xxx
Traffic dataadminis-
tration
xxx xxx
GAT
x n.a.
Commer-
cials
xxxx xxxx
Aviation
overhead
xxxx xxx
Non-
aviation
xxx xxx
Retail and
gastro (Profit
Benchmark)
xxxxx xxxx
Property
(Profit
Benchmark)
xxxxx x
Car parking
(Profit
Benchmark)
xxxx xxxx
Advertising
(Profit
Benchmark)
xxxx xxx
Concessions
and licenses
xx x
Services
xxxx x
Utilities
xxxx x
Non-avia-
tion over-
head
xx x
Safety and
security
xxx xxx
Passenger
screening
xxxx xxx
Hold
baggage
screening
xxxx xxx
Personnel
screnning
xxx x
Cargo
screening
xxxx x
Airport
security
xxx x
Fire dept.
xxxx xxx
Emergency
mgmt.
xxx xxx
Safety and
security
overhead
x n.a.
Ground
handling
xxx xxx
Passenger
Service
xxxx xxx
Baggage
Services
xxxx xxx
Aircraft
Services
xxx x
Cargo
Handling
xxxx x
GH
Overhead
xxx x
IT
xxx xxx
Develop-
ment IT
application
xxx x
Maintain/
operate IT
app.
xxxx xxx
Enterprise
infrastr.
xxxx xxx
Internal
infrastr.
xxx x
IT overhead
xxx x
Planning
xxx xxx
Develop-
ment
xxxx xxxx
Project
financing
x n.a.
Supportand
overhead
xxx xxx
Purchasing
xxx xxx
Financeand
accounting
xxxx xxxx
Controlling
xxx xx
Officefacility
mgmt.
xxxx xxxx
Human
resources
xxxx xxx
Strategy
xx x
General
marketing
xxx xxx
Communi-
cations
xxx x
Environ-
ment
xxx xxx
S and O
Overhead
xxxx xx
Legal
xxx xx
Non-air-
port-related
Services
x n.a.
Regulatory
manage-
ment
xx x
Analyzed
activity
Total
position
Total
gap
Color rating
of total gap
Relative. gap
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... with relative comparison of revenue and cost
In Europe per traffic unit
Airport Fin year Dashboard color and gap Gap absolute Revenue position Driver: total traffic units
XYZ xx.x % xx,xxx,xxx EUR xxx,xxx,xxx EUR x,xxx,xxx
Airport-related revenue per traffic unit
Total airport performance Sanitized
XYZ P Avg
x.xx
x.xx
Total traffic units
in mn
Total annual
movements
Max monthly
PAX capacity
utilization in %
Traffic units permovement
Max monthly
movement cap.
utilization in %
Share of LCC
PAXin %
xx
xx
xxx,xxx
xxx,xxx
xx
xx
x%
xx%
xx%
xx%
xx%
xx%
Deviation from average (in % per segment)
Qualitative good deviation
Qualitative worse deviation
n XYZ
Panel average
Revenues
LCC: low-cost carrier
PAX: passengers
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In Europe per sqm
Airport Fin year Dashboard color and gap Gap absolute Profit position Driver: total traffic units
XYZ xx.x % xx,xxx,xxx EUR xx,xxx,xxx EUR x,xxx,xxx
Results exampleprofit analysis (without goods sold)
Non-aviationretail Sanitized
Revenues
x.xx x.xx
Cost Profit P Avg
Profit External services Personnel costs Revenues
Share of interna-
tional PAXin %
Share of inter-
continental PAX
in %
Share of LCC
PAXin %
Share of
business PAX
in %
Revenue per
PAXin EUR
x.xx
x.xx xx%
xxx%
xx%
x%
xx%
x%
xx%
xx%
X,xx%
X,xx%
... activity-specific break downs to profit level
Deviation from average (in % per segment)
Qualitative good deviation
Qualitative worse deviation
n XYZ
Panel average
LCC: low-cost carrier
PAX: passengers
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Total cost per screened passenger
Sanitized
Allow for a balance of cost and quality
In Europe per passenger
Airport Fin year Dashboard color and gap Gap absolute Cost position Driver: total traffic units
XYZ xx.x % xx,xxx,xxx EUR xx,xxx,xxx EUR x,xxx,xxx
XYZ P Avg
x.xx
x.xx
Other Power External services Personnel costs
Passenger
screening sites
Existing
passenger
screening lines
Screened PAX
per average open
line in mn PAX
Waiting time sec-
urity screening
(av.) in minutes
Min. employeesper line
requirement
FTEper one mn
screened PAX
x.x
x.x
xx
xx
x.x
x.x
x.xx
x.xx
x.x
x.x
xx.x
xx.x
Deviation from average (in % per segment)
Qualitative good deviation
Qualitative worse deviation
n XYZ
Panel average
FTE: flight technical errors
PAX: passengers
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Up to detailed analyses ...
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The GCB four-step root cause analysis
After identifying a gap in retail stores, the terminal center
management was restructured Client example: non-aviation
lead to operational best practice
Post-GCB valuation and root cause
Performance gap in the
Non-aviation section
Analysis of the
Retail-dashboard
Harmonized profits per
square meter fine at the
landside and off-terminal
Drill down:
airside retail costs
Benchmarks
competitive at
sales, marketing,
billing and overheadCause is not a
cost gap
To identify a profit
gap split down of
sub-activities
Good relative
performance withgastro
Bad performance
with shops, especially
branded fashion
Branded shops
further investigated:
Process-related
costRevenue split
Varying cost drivers by
# shops, # sqm,
# contract partners
GCB results and analysis
Detailed analysis
of single stores
profitability
Analysis of customer
flows and dailythroughput
Analysis of the terminals
gastro versus shop mix
Analysis of aviation
and non-aviation
collaboration
Evaluation of the overall
center management
Close of selected
shops recommended
and selection of
new concessionaires
Stronger alignmentof concession
partners concerning
aviation flows
Concentration of
offer availability
and resources
at peak hours
Optimized center
management
Phase Phase Phase Phase
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Watch the GCB video online
Authors
Robert A. Ziegler, partner, Berlin
Ren Steinhaus,consultant, Berlin
http://youtu.be/qiuFJwp-L
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