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:

Why Apex?

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

Our data

RDC's unique and proprietary datasets offer our clients insights which few other providers can offer; insights which help them understand the opportunities and risks they face as a business. Our core datasets cover these main areas:

The world's largest dataset of runway, passenger and en route charges covering more than 3,000 airports, supported by global coverage of government tax data.

Proprietary fuel burn and route operating cost calculation engines, enabling the costs (and CO₂ emissions) for any combination of carrier and equipment type on any O&D to be determined.