Airlines
History of performing large-scale, network-based competitive assessments associated with a regulatory or structural change. The work has often required testimony before various tribunals including the U.S. Congress.
Airports
A long history of providing industry analysis to airports of all sizes. Early work was in the air service development space – before it became a cottage industry. Today, our work is to provide context around an airport’s performance; to provide a third-party opinion; analyze airline strategy changes and how they impact airports; and to be a voice on industry issues.
Trade Associations
Analyze problems/issues common to all members where the answer can be used as an input for planning purposes. Understanding that there is rarely a one size fits all answer to problems/issues facing members from large and small organizations is paramount.
Financial Institutions
Transactional support. The strength of Swelbar-Zhong is the fact that the foundation of every analysis begins with a network. Whether determining the impact on an individual airline, an industry sector or the total industry it has a network beginning and an end.
Economic Development Groups
Increasingly economic development groups are being formed to assist communities of all sizes in attracting new or improved commercial air service. With the post-COVID industry promising to be smaller, attracting commercial air service will be even more difficult. What will not change is the fact that economic development needs commercial air service to maximize any investment made. We can assist.
Local, State and Federal Government Agencies
While commercial airline service was deregulated in 1978, regulations governing the industry are many. Some call the industry the “most regulated, deregulated industry in the world”. When regulations change, there will be an economic impact that will arise and need to be quantified.