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How Airlines Manage Ticket Prices :
An Introduction to Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing

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Presented By

Dr. E. Andrew Boyd

Dr. E. Andrew Boyd
Senior Vice President,
Chief Scientist
PROS Revenue Management

 

See a recording of this Web Seminar:
Part One (15 minutes)
Part Two (20 minutes)

Unleash the power of revenue optimization in your organization! Attend this exciting seminar and find out how you can take advantage of revenue optimization practices and technologies. Traditionally, businesses have relied on experience for managing the demand for their products and services. Revenue optimization employs historical data, statistical analysis and mathematical optimization. Now, businesses can target customer groups according to circumstances and adjust inventory allocations and prices in order to increase revenues when demand does not match supply. Find out why Bob Austrian of Banc of America Securities calls revenue management "one of the most exciting inevitabilities ahead" whose "implications for profitability ..cannot be stressed enough."

Quantifiable Results
Airline One of the reasons, revenue optimization is so popular is that the results are quantifiable. According to Thomas Cook, former president of Sabre Technology Solutions, more than $1 billion in annual incremental revenue could be attributed to the revenue management system at American Airlines. Don Garvett, Executive Vice President at South African Airlines also credits revenue management for over 60% airline profitability; and Continental Airlines Bill Brunger has claimed in the Wall Street Journal that "revenue optimization is all of our profit and more."

Industries Using Revenue Management
Revenue management began in the airline industry but can also be found in the hotel and car rental industries; broadcast, cruise, energy, golf, equipment rental, healthcare, manufacturing, rail, restaurant, ticketing, and other industries. The objectives of revenue management is to manage short-term supply against customer demand in an effort to maximize revenue.


Attend and Find Out
  • What is the relationship of revenue management with dynamic pricing?
  • Who is using revenue management and with what kind of results?
  • How can I use revenue management?
  • How would the practice of revenue management affect my business?
  • What are the management science concepts that drive the value proposition behind revenue management?
  • How do the airlines manage their ticket prices?

Recommended Prerequisite for Attendance
  Linear programming knowledge


Presented By:
Dr. E. Andrew Boyd is Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist of PROS Revenue Management in Houston, Texas. Dr. Boyd is one of the original designers of the Cplex linear programming library, now part of ILOG. He is founding president of the INFORMS Section on Revenue Management, and maintains formal affiliations with the Texas A & M University Department of Industrial Engineering and the University of Houston Department of Mathematics. He has written over 20 scholarly publications and held numerous research grants from agencies such as the National science Foundation; written technical articles, book chapters, and is a much sought after speaker. Dr. Boyd received his AB with Honors at Oberlin College with majors in Mathematics and Economics in 1981 and his PhD in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.

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PROS Revenue Management provides system solutions and software to the airline, energy, broadcast, car rental, hotel, healthcare, rail and cargo industries. PROS clients have typically achieved an incremental revenue of 6-8%. For more information go to: www.prosm.com.


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