About Lufthansa Consulting South America

Lufthansa Consulting has once again been awarded the coveted consultancy prize "Best of Consulting" by the renowned German weekly business news magazine WirtschaftsWoche.

Managing Director Hannes Müller, Partner Catrin Drawer, Managing Consultant and Project Manager Sascha Vogel as well as Marlene Hollwurtel from Marketing and Communications proudly accepted the award for the third place in the category "Strategy” at the award ceremony on 30 November 2023 in Düsseldorf.

The prize was awarded to a successful project with TAAG Angola Airlines, the national carrier of Angola. Lufthansa Consulting supported TAAG in developing an ambitious, realistic, data‑profound and financially proven Business Blueprint formed by a 5 Year Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan aims to enable TAAG becoming a sustainably successful business entity and an airline of choice for passenger and cargo services connecting Southern Africa with the world. The Plan includes a new strategy, an optimized network and fleet plan, commercial and operational concepts as well as an organizational re-design and financial model.

Both companies worked closely together to identify optimization opportunities and jointly developed future-facing business concepts for the airline. Lufthansa Consulting supported TAAG’s executive management with advice through a change management and communication concept to execute the Strategic Plan and foster transformation within the organization.

Today, the efforts and actions of TAAG Angola Airlines’ management board have generated relevant outcomes, such as positive financial results, new regional and international routes and a sustainable fleet acquisition plan in progress towards a vision to position the company as a reference in Africa. 

TAAG Angola Airlines’ CEO commented: “TAAG Angola Airlines congratulates Lufthansa Consulting for being awarded the “Best of Consulting” prize by WirtschaftsWoche. Working closely with Lufthansa Consulting on our 5 Year Strategic Plan program was indeed valuable for our growth and compliance with best practices, Lufthansa Consulting has greatly assisted our airline in successfully achieving major milestones and resources to address our challenges ahead”, says Eduardo Fairen.

Above all, the strategic importance of this project for TAAG and also for the country should be emphasized. It makes an important contribution to the macroeconomic development of Angola’s trade and transport sector: introduction of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), opening of air travel through the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) as an African Union Agenda 2063 flagship project and opening of the New International Airport Luanda as hub in South-Western Africa and home base to the national carrier TAAG.

Lufthansa Consulting and its client TAAG Angola Airlines are incredibly pleased about the award and that the WirtschaftsWoche jury could also be convinced of this successful project. Both look very much forward to their further productive and prosperous cooperation.

The aviation experts from Lufthansa Consulting have been awarded by WirschaftsWoche already for the third time: In 2018 with the 1st place in the category “Competitive Strategy”, in 2019 with the “Excellent” price in the category "Marketing & Organization" and this year with the 3rd place in the category “Strategy”.

GAD ist the largest and most senior gathering of global public and private airport directors, operators, investors, financiers and industry experts.

GAD World is where the airport operator and investor community network, share expertise and learn from the market leaders. Given the current inflationary environment, airport operators, strategic and financial investors are signing up to tap into global expertise on managing costs and ROI in airports.

Ilias Maragkakis, Associate Partner and Head of the Solution Group Infrastructure & Operations, will moderate the panel discussion on Day One focussing on "The brave new world of infrastructure investment" which will address the topics

• - What are the dynamics of infrastructure investing in the 2020s? How are rising costs and risks impacting the performance of different sectors?
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• - How competitive are airports as an asset class in today’s market and regulatory landscape?
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• - Viewing airports through an ESG lens and perspective of creating shareholder value
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• - What are the expectations of the future pipeline and transaction models?
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Meet our delegates Ilias Maragkakis and Malte Schillmann to discuss solutions for airport investors and operators. Don’t miss this opportunity to take the market temperature and find out about upcoming projects. 

Lufthansa Consulting is once again sponsoring this prestigious event. 

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The first edition of ALTA Fuel & Environment Conference addresses topic related to the local legal frameworks on the production, import and commercialization of Sustainable Aviation Fuel, sustainable airports and carbon offsetting mechanisms for airline passengers, jet fuel market updates, infrastructure, fees and taxes. 

This 2-days conference organized by ALTA, a private and non-profit organization at the service of the aviation industry, whose mission is to develop a safer, more efficient and environmentally responsible air transport in Latin America and the Caribbean, will feature academic presentations and panels discussions, working group meeting and networking opportunities. 

Meet our expert team at ALTA Fuel & Environment Conference !
 

On 20 March, Lufthansa Consulting once again conducted a guest lecture at Cranfield University. In continuation of an annual tradition, the aviation experts have been invited to deliver their "Introduction to Network and Fleet Planning" to Masters students of Cranfield University's M.Sc. course in Air Transport Management.

The lecture covered numerous topics of high relevance to the students. Our Associate Partner Arvind Chandrasekhar, Senior Consultant Wasiq Khurshid and Consultant Ainesh Advani discussed with the students how network planning works within an airline organization, about data sources, passenger demand forecasting, route economics and the steps that go into developing a business case for a route. In addition, the class brought the topic to life through a detailed case study for a new intercontinental route between Asia-Pacific and Europe. With some excellent, probing questions from the class and a robust exchange of ideas, everybody thoroughly enjoyed the session.

“We greatly value our longstanding relationship with Cranfield University and thank Professor Gary Doy for inviting us to speak to his class. It’s always a pleasure to engage with future leaders of our industry,” said Arvind Chandrasekhar after the lecture session.

The postgraduate university has world-class expertise in its sector-leading specialist areas, particularly also in the field of aviation.

Lufthansa Consulting will again participate in Routes Americas! Our Associate Partner and Head of Market Americas, Liége Emmerz, and Senior Consultant Luisa Grasshoff look forward to meet the industry professionals at the Route Development Forum for the Americas from 21 - 23 March 2023 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. The proven Routes team will be delighted to talk about Lufthansa Consulting’s range of services tailored to the needs of the various aviation stakeholders.

At the conference, our aviation experts will present their robust Air Service Development (ASD) service, that equips airport and tourism stakeholders in studying the potential of new markets and routes. Backed by a variety of performance simulation tools, our passenger and cargo studies are also ready-to-use marketing material serving as the perfect pitch in discussions with potential airline partners.

As the region's leading aviation event, Routes Americas 2023 will bring together senior industry professionals from airlines, airports and destinations. It will provide an efficient platform to build high-value relationships with a qualified audience of air service development decision-makers from across the region and beyond.

See you in Chicago! Feel free to easily contact Liége and Luisa via the Routes App!