Airline Use Cases

Airline EPM and EDM roadmaps should combine driver-based planning for routes, flights, revenue, inflight sales, fuel, maintenance, and operating costs with governed operational data.

Primary EPM/EDM Pillar	Industry Use Case
Planning	Financial and strategic planning based on drivers, supporting top-down and bottom-up planning models
Planning	Revenue planning by flight number, route level, flight type, region, and business segment. Integration with airline revenue systems for the actual data
Planning	Inflight sales planning, duty free sales planning
Planning	Opex planning at the GL account level. Detailed Opex planning for fuel cost, repairs, maintenance, training, and so on
Planning	Budget financial statements–profit and loss, cash flow, balance sheet, annexures