The airport business is changing rapidly.

The airport business is changing rapidly. Worldwide, airports are spending heavily to meet the anticipated doubling of passenger traffic over the next 15 years. Increasingly, airport investment is being sought from private capital sources.

Ascend offers extensive, experience-backed services to airport operators, investors and suppliers alike, including airport market and forecast studies underpinning major new developments and privatisation projects.

• Airport demand forecasts
• Busy-day analysis
• Airport privatisation
• Route development
• Capacity and traffic analysis
• Environmental impact studies

Are airports a good investment?

Ascend’s team of international experts use proven quantitative and qualitative techniques to assess market risk at airports.  Our forecasts are built on detailed understanding of the past, current and future airport markets. Current and potential investors place great value on Ascend’s realistic simulations of market changes, which reflect new demographics, destination choices, airline services, aircraft types, economic trends and ticket pricing.

Recent projects include:

• Japanese, Eastern-European and Italian airport privatisation
• Mumbai and Delhi Airports’ traffic forecasts

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“We are very pleased with the traffic forecast. It is a crucial tool for all aspects of our planning. The level of detail provided and the varied range of scenarios enables us to project traffic for all market segments and to minimise -- or even eliminate -- future risks. The interactive models are very helpful!  We really appreciate the quality of work and responsiveness.”

George Karamanos, Director, Communications and Marketing, Athens International Airport

“We’ve relied on the team’s expertise to prepare, deliver and defend the traffic forecast for several key airport investment projects. The traffic forecast is to build a solid business plan to submit to financial backers with confidence. The confidence stems from the consultant’s in-depth knowledge, worldwide expertise and their detailed ‘busy-day’ analysis. Apart from this, they are a great bunch of people to work with -- reliable and very responsive.  That is a big advantage in projects under time pressure."

Dimitrios Gatsonis, Director Aviation, Hochtief AirPort GmbH