Effect on profitability of time based price manipulations with dynamic demand forecasting

The aviation sector in Turkey is developing and becoming more competitive day by day. In recent days, since online shopping is preferable and accessible, online sales channels have given cost and revenue opportunities to airlines. Thus, a reliable demand forecast for customers and also offering the right place in accordance with customer's willingness to pay have become more important for airlines. In this study, for competitive and monopoly markets, booking curve from online sales channel is analyzed according to the day, hour and minute of the observed demand with time series analysis. In addition, the factors that affect the demand's time-to-departure is discussed with regression analysis method. Before analysis, data collection procedure and the data itself is explained in detail. As a result, Simple exponential smooting (SES) model gives best fit with minimum error according to time and market based analysis. On the other hand, according to regression analysis, for the monopoly and oligopoly markets, although there are common factors which affect time-to-departure flight such as ticket fare, flight time, ticket types; it is also observed that there are different factors such as number of flights on days of flight, and time interval of booking time. As a result, the factors and the method which are predicted to help increase the company's revenue will be proposed for the airline company.