Air4casts
 
BACKGROUND TO OUR COMPANY
Air4casts was established in 1990 by a small group of marketing, consulting and systems professionals. They shared business backgrounds in Beverages, Cosmetics, Fashion, Oil and Management Consultancy. They came together to offer a unique forecasting, analysis and research service for the Aviation and Travel Retail Industries. Today Air4casts has established a reputation as an acknowledged leader in air passenger forecasting, research and consulting. Our client base is broad and ranges from airports and airlines to financial institutions, with a specialist division which is devoted to the specific needs of the Travel Retail industry.
THE FOUNDERS
Ian Robinson Jane Robinson  
OFFICES IN LONDON, HONG KONG, GENEVA and CHENNAI
 
London
2nd Floor, Berkeley Square House
Berkeley Square
London W1J 6BD, UK
+44 203 086 9315
Hong Kong
1/F, Airport World Trade Centre
1 Sky Plaza Road
HK International Airport,
Lantau, Hong Kong
+852 3756 3481
Geneva
14 rue du Rhone
Geneva
CH 1204 Switzerland
+ 41 22 548 39 97
Chennai
2nd floor
ALTIUS Olympia Technology Park 1
SIDCO Industrial Estate
Guindy
Chennai 600 032
India
Our sales and marketing are based in London with the headquarters function in Hong Kong.
Research and development is based in Geneva with data operations in Chennai.
HOW TO CONTACT US
Directly through our Contact Page on this web site to some of the people who can help:
  Ian Robinson
Chairman
   Jane Robinson
Managing Director
  Alan French
Finance Director		   David Walker
Publications Manager
  Emma Robinson
Marketing Director 		  Susan Kennedy
Marketing Manager
 
Conventionally at our London offices:
  Air4casts Limited
2nd Floor, Berkeley Square House
Berkeley Square
London W1J 6BD
UK
   Telephone: +44 203 086 9315
Fax: +44 203 004 1738
OUR SERVICES
Airport Passenger Forecasting
At the root of the Company's forecasting services is the monthly forecast and forecast update of over 1000 of the world's largest and most important airports. Each of these airports is separately reviewed based upon the latest available actual data and forecasts are produced by month, by quarter and annually out to 2040. The forecast content for each airport includes international, domestic and total passengers. The company has invested considerably in the design of custom built software which is especially well adapted to the needs of the air travel business. Its approach is entirely systematic in that the forecasts generated are without personal conjecture and are thus capable of probability analysis.
Bespoke Forecasting
Our unique expertise and depth of data coverage enables us to work closely with individual clients on tailored forecast studies. These have ranged recently from a master plan for a major airport to a privatization study and a bespoke in-house forecast database for a leading airport supplier.
Travel and Tourism
Country by country travel and tourism data are invaluable for companies involved in the travel retail industry. For each of 220 countries worldwide Air4casts provides online annual visitor numbers arriving and departing by air, land and sea. The content for each country includes a breakdown by business and leisure traveller, nationality of visitor and visitor by regional origin. New for 2010 is the further monthly online tracking of the actual visitor data by nationality for 68 key countries which provide up to the minute traveller tracking.
Travel Retail Promotions Planning
The Air4casts data coverage enables subscribers to drill down in detail to Terminal level. The Airport Passenger Profiling covers:
◊ scheduled international departing passengers from
◊ 866 terminals over the next twelve months by
◊ hour, day, week, month, quarter, year and by
◊ class of travel and
◊ airline, airline nationality and destination.
Airport, Airline and Ferry Pricing Database for Travel Retail
Five major brand pricing databases are housed on the Air4casts servers. The company collects the actual retail prices from all available online airport, airline and ferry retailers for the following product sectors:
◊ Alcohol
◊ Confectionery
◊ Fragrances
◊ Skincare and Makeup
◊ Tobacco
Prices for each SKU in every online shop are updated monthly as are Special Offers from 220 travel retail outlets globally.
Travel Retailer Reach

The Air4casts database provides monthly international air passenger forecasts by Retailer by business area to airport terminal level. 200 airport retailers are included in the coverage. The Retailer forecasts are:
◊ monthly over the next 12 months
◊ updated fully every month as
◊ passenger numbers and outlet locations change. For each individual Retailer the monthly forecasts:
◊ are summarized by country, region, quarter and year
◊ can be broken by airport and by airport terminal
Consumer Research
The Company runs both multi-client and private client research projects for suppliers to Travel Retail. Recent assignments include an online survey of female business travellers and their attitudes to airport retailing. This was complemented by a series of in depth online focus groups with younger female travellers from the six global regions. Our comprehensive research database comprises detailed analysis of the travel retail purchasing trends of consumers from all of the major global economies from 1991 to 2010.