Name: Apex
Author: RDC

Powered by RDC Data, Apex helps you spot growth opportunities, manage risk, explore sustainability and monitor performance. Apex is trusted by over 130 airports, airlines, investors and tourism bodies for its ease of use and market leading insights. Are you ready to elevate your analysis?

Supercharge your analysis with our new clouds

Our brand new cloud functionality gives you access to unique features that help you to address the key use cases faced by your business:

Sustainability cloud

Developed specifically to allow airports to accurately report aviation scope 3 emissions.

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Why Apex?

Support your business decisions

Apex provides a unique perspective on airline performance using RDC’s proprietary fare, profit, cost, and CO₂ data.

Macro or micro, get the stories you need

Apex allows you to spotlight market trends, benchmark against peers and competitors and identify opportunities and risk.

Supported by RDC expertise

RDC’s experienced team is on-hand to help you make the most of Apex, from frequent data updates, training and on-going support.

Add credibility to airline negotiations

Apex delivers detailed analysis in the language of airline network planners. It enables you to quickly produce multiple route studies and generate clear reports.

Secure sustainable and profitable routes

Develop a better understanding of current route performance and the fares needed to achieve breakeven. Monitor seasonality and identify 'at risk' routes.

Understand the impact of airport discounts

Which routes are cash cows for airlines and which are less profitable? Use Apex to be better informed in negotiations with airlines.

Spot new route opportunities

Find unserved markets more easily and analyse their potential with fare and profit comparisons.

New air service development

Quickly find unserved markets and understand which markets present the best opportunities using gap analysis, fare and profitability tools.

Evaluate competitor performance

Apex includes a detailed database of airline financial data and aircraft data. This resource enables Apex to be used to assess competitor performance, at the network level or drilling down into individual routes.

Predict future airline performance

Identify trends in forward-looking air fares (up to 6 months in advance) for traded airlines and understand the core drivers of network profitability for leading LCCs and Full Service carriers.

Understand competitive factors

Understand changes in competition which a carrier might face with 12 months forward-looking global schedules data.

Evaluate changes to network

Benchmark the performance of recently launched services to understand the likely benefit they’ll have to overall network profitability.

Apex contains

Airline fare analysis

Analyse and compare historic, current, and future airline fare data on a single route or across entire markets in a matter of seconds.

Airline profit analysis

Analyse profit data for existing airline services and networks, giving you unique intelligence on the markets which make (or lose) the most.

Airline schedules

Quickly analyse global airline seats, departures, and capacity data from 2006 through to 12 months in the future.

Airline route performance

Configure your own route studies and discover the most profitable options by running multiple route profit and loss scenarios side-by-side.

CO₂ data

Available as an add on to our schedules data. Our CO₂ data allows you to understand airline CO₂ emissions from 2017 at a route level right up to a global level.

Financial data

Current and historic airline annual reports can be analysed, downloaded, and compared using our flexible interface.

What our customers say

Without access to RDC’s performance data it would take us considerable resource to get the quantity and quality of data that they provide. We have used their data ahead of opening up new bases and hundreds of new routes and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future.
, Director of Schedule Development | Ryanair
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RDC’s fare and profit data gives us a full understanding of the performance of airlines at our airport and at competitors. We no longer need to rely solely on what airlines are prepared to tell us.
Paul Winfield, Director of Aviation Development | Liverpool John Lennon Airport
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