Changing market dynamics - and critical issues for suppliers

David Hygate, Director Europe, TeamSAI

. . . speaking at the MAA annual conference 20 Feb 2013

With a massive backlog of aircraft due to be delivered over the next eight-ten years and a growing body of new product development, the aerospace supply chain is set for some testing times. Added to this is the continuing growth of low-cost carriers, increasing numbers of aircraft retirements and a growing appetite for operating leases rather than outright ownership. All of these issues combine to change the market dynamics for suppliers.

TeamSAI are an aviation consultancy specialising in both strategic forecasting and analysis and also technical outsourcing and process improvement. Each year we produce a global MRO forecast covering all aspects of the commercial MRO business – aircraft, engines and components – and David will be sharing the current ten-year outlook together with a look at some of the more near-term critical issues for suppliers.

David Hygate spent nearly 38 years working for Rolls-Royce PLC, covering a variety of responsibilities including spare parts forecasting and cost analysis, market forecasting and competitive analysis and marketing operations. He was a founder member of the Trent engine project team, accountable for marketing, before moving to Toulouse for five years where he ran the IAE and Rolls-Royce offices building relationships with Airbus on behalf of both companies.

On his return to Derby, he was briefly responsible for single-aisle engine strategy and the Trent 900 before moving over to MRO focusing on front line customer business and business development and dealing with a wide range of customers and other industry participants from around the world. He worked in Texas for three years, at the Rolls-Royce/American Airlines JV engine MRO shop TAESL.

David Hygate left Rolls-Royce in 2009 and has since been working with TeamSAI.

Team SAI's David Hygate