Amadeus SkyCAST by Optym

SkyCAST’s accurate forecasts for passenger demand, revenue, and costs enable better decision-making and provide more business insights, resulting in increased network profitability.

SkyCAST supports a consistent and objective evaluation of multiple what-if scenarios in hours, not days or weeks, and without needing extensive manual calibration.

SkyCAST’s models consider passenger preference factors such as time of day, service type, airport preference, carrier preference, and other variables. The system’s traffic model converts forecasted demand of each itinerary into expected traffic, considering spill and recapture effects.

Be able to use cabin-level forecasting with up-sell, multi-airport city forecasting, market stimulation, change-based demand forecasting, and capacity-plan demand forecasting.

SkyCAST allows users to add, remove, and modify forecast input data to easily create different what-if scenarios; the system also provides batch editing to accommodate multiple edits on large amounts of data simultaneously.

Track and maintain all changes in the input data for each scenario. SkyCAST provides users with the capability of analyzing and comparing the results of one or more forecast outputs directly from the client application using pivot tables.

SkyCAST automatically runs forecasts on previous years’ schedules (back-cast) and compares results with historical traffic data to determine detailed forecasting accuracy measurements and adjustments at the system, market, and flight levels.

SkyCAST is able to simulate passenger choice behavior and revenue management effects to calculate market shares, passenger traffic, passenger revenue, and detailed flight costs to forecast total network profitability of proposed schedules.