The Pulse Report 
Informing Airport Finance Professionals
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"PASSUR provided information for additional modules that would address future growth in Charleston, and appeared to offer the best overall value in terms of capability, functionality, and interoperability with other airport systems."
Charleston International Airport |
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| Summer 2010 | |
Welcome to the Summer 2010 edition of The PASSUR® Pulse™ Report, an eNewsletter created exclusively for the Airport Finance community.
PASSUR Pulse™ software allows a simple, efficient means of tracking, auditing and capturing all landing fee revenue. It will maximize your revenue stream and spread it equitably, by means of accurate and detailed activity reports accessible on the Web.
This month, we highlight our very successful 2010 user conference. If you weren't able to make it to the user conference, a recap is included in this report.
We also have an interview with Charleston International Airport on why they chose PASSUR and what they've found since they signed up.
Thanks for reading. As always, if you have ideas or questions, please send them over to me, Ron Dunsky, at rondunsky@passur.com. |
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| PASSUR 2010 User Conference Recap |
Once again, we had a fantastic turnout for our user conference in June. Thank you to everyone who came out. For those who weren't able to make it, here's a summary  of what you missed.
Capturing More Diversions
Diversion Management is as much an economic issue as it is an operational one, so we're continuously improving our diversion management algorithms to ensure you catch every diversion into your airport. That way, you can bill accurately and collect more revenue.
Airport Revenue Management: Standardization with Carriers is Key With more airports signing on for PASSUR landing fee management, we are working towards standardizing processes across airlines and airports. This requires strong coordination with carriers, data integrity, and transparency. Standardization will make it easier for airports to develop industry best practices that are consistent at all facilities; and It will make it easier for airlines to manage their fees across all their airports centrally and with a greater degree of automation. Alternate Uses of Data With all of this great data being collected in the PASSUR landing fee management system, we're working to make sure it's easily accessible so you can manage all the various revenue sources at your airport. Beyond simply landing fees, this also looks at areas such as RON fees, mail and cargo. The idea is to aggregate all these fees into a single place for you to view and, eventually, bill directly. |
| Charleston International Discusses Its Decision to Use PASSUR Landing Fee Management | |
This summer, we're checking in with Charleston International Airport (CHS) in South Carolina about their decision to use PASSUR Pulse Landing Fee Management. CHS has five major carriers and 116 scheduled flights to 14 destinations. Here's what they had to say:
PASSUR: What made you decide to purchase a solution from PASSUR?
CHS: In an effort to verify self-reported landing activities by the airlines, Charleston International was interested in a means of managing and verifying landing activity. We  wanted to identify those commercial landings which were not reported and be provided with sufficient details to determine the appropriate ownership of the aircraft and the amount of the landing fee(s) due. PASSUR was the only responding company that provided an independent source for capturing commercial aircraft landings. PASSUR provided information for additional modules that would address future growth at Charleston, and appeared to offer the best overall value in terms of capability, functionality, and interoperability with other airport systems.
PASSUR: Did you discuss it with your airlines/other tenants before purchasing? How did they respond?
CHS: We did discuss the implementation of PASSUR with the airlines after we purchased it. Some of our local station managers were familiar with the product and had very positive feedback on its accuracy.
PASSUR: How did you initially plan to use the solution?
CHS: Initially we were interested only in the verification and accuracy of the self-reports from the airlines, but we hope the software can provide us other valuable statistics as we grow. We expect an increase in flights due to the arrival of Southwest Airlines in 2011 and I believe PASSUR can only help in the monitoring of operations here.
PASSUR: Has anything changed since you started using the program? What have you discovered about it?
CHS: We have only been using PASSUR for 2 months of activity and we have discovered that there are different weights for the same type of aircraft. Previously, these aircraft were grouped into one weight class and our payment may have been short. Also, Charleston has quite a few diversions, so we are working with our airline partners to identify those non-revenue flights appearing in the PASSUR database in order to balance the monthly activity.
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| Welcome Nashville to the PASSUR Landing Fee Management Community | |
In a recent press release, we announced that Nashville has joined the PASSUR Landing Fee Management Community. We are excited to have Nashville working with us, and we look forward to adding more airports to the community as we continue through 2010.
To learn more about joining the PASSUR Landing Fee Management Community, contact Evan Danto at evan.j.danto@passur.com. |
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