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1 Air freight transportation benchmark Paris, January 5 th, 2011

2 The benchmark would enable to better understand commercial best practices and main trends in air freight 2 The benchmark should provide the key information to build AFKLMP Cargo strategy  Understand AFKLMP position compared to best-in class companies in the industry to identify potential short and middle term actions Topics Objectives Industry best practices  Understand key market evolution trends and possible alternative business models to support AFKLMP in building its strategic vision Key trends & evolutions

3 It would provide both a specific vision on air freight market evolution and a larger vision on best commercial practices 3 Freight transportation Air freight market Approach  Evaluate AFKL against industry standards and best in class companies  Determine key specific evolutions and trends of the air freight market  Build a 5-10 year vision of the market The benchmark will target the freight transportation market in general

4 It would be focused on commercial organization, commercial offer, sales performance steering and busines model evolutions 4 Four key elements would be assessed during our benchmark 1 2 3 4 Business model evolution in air freight industry Customer segmentation & commercial offer Commercial Organization Sales performance steering Best practices in air freight industry What do airlines offer to their customers ? What is the most efficient commercial organization for airlines in the freight transportation industry ? How do airlines achieve sales efficiency ? How are competition & customers evolving in the air transportation market ?

5 The benchmark would target the three key populations involved in air freight transportation: shippers, forwarders and airlines 5 Shippers Forwarders Airlines 5 shippers with relevant business with AFKL  List to be defined with Industry  Potential candidates include Sanofi, LVMH, Inditex, HP 3 global Partners  DGF, Kuehne & Nagel, Schenker 5 key regional accounts  Bolloré & Geodis Wilson (FDA)  Expeditors (AME – ASIA – MEISA)  Panalpina (AME – ASIA – FDA)  UPS (AME – ASIA – EUR) Internal benchmark AF KL MP Main Skyteam cargo members  China Southern, Delta, Korean air Main European competitors  Lufthansa  British Airways Best in class cargo airlines  Emirates, Singapore, Swiss, American airlines, Air Canada, Cargolux Targets A total of 24 interviews

6 Key outputs expected on commercial organization 6 1 2 3 4 Business model evolution in air freight industry Customer segmentation & commercial offer Commercial Organization Sales performance steering Best practices in air freight industry Local vs global governance  What are the drivers to decide what is locally vs centrally managed in commercial organization ?  Does it match customers & suppliers organization ?  Are you satisfied with the current organization ? What are the benefits & areas for improvement ?  How does the organization contributes to the overall strategy ? Roles & missions in the sales structure  What are the key roles & missions within the sales team in your company : sales, CSO,... ?  Do you have hunting entities or other task-specific workforce ? For what purpose ?  What are the drivers to decide the sales resources allocation ?  Are you satisfied with the current sales structure ? What are the key benefits & possible improvements ?  Do you plan to change the role & responsibilities within your sales team organization ? Evolution trends & vision  How do you expect commercial organizations to evolve in your market ?  How do you evaluate your position with regards to this evolution ? Where do you stand ?  How do you plan to evolve ? What is your vision ?  Have you already launched or will soon launch projects to rethink your organization ? Topics ?  What were the drivers of these projects & what do you expect from them ?  Are you satisfied with these projects ? What problems have you encountered ? Internal organization  Which entity manage strategic marketing in your organization ? What are marketing missions ?  Which entity or entities manage the pricing ? What is the role of RM ? Who manages the yield ?  Which entity is responsible for providing industry or product expertise ?  Are you satisfied with the current internal structure and the way sales team interact with marketing, RM & Operations? What are the key benefits & areas for improvements ? Dedicated structure for top customers / key accounts  How do you define key accounts ? Segmentation drivers & numbers of key accounts ?  Is there a dedicated structure for key accounts : existence, mission & perimeter (central/local) ?  Are you satisfied with your KA structure ? What are the benefits & area for improvements ?  How does Key Account structure contribute to the company strategy ? 5 4 3 2 Legend Critical informationImportant informationSomewhat important information A F S Airlines Forwarders Shippers Airlines & forwarders All Interviewees 1

7 Key outputs expected on commercial offer & partnerships 7 Commercial offer / specific offers & partnerships  Do you have a differentiated offer per segment ?  What are the reason / drivers for this offer customization ?  Are you satisfied with existing offers & partnerships ? What are the key benefits & areas for improvement ? E - channel  Do you have a “e-strategy” ? What are the drivers ?  What are the first outputs as concerns “e” ?  Have you launch or will launch e-projects on repair process ? Is repair part of your e-strategy ?  What are your e-objectives until 2012 ? Segmentation  What are the drivers & criteria to differentiate / segment your customers  How many segments & what type of customer per segment ?  Are there VIP customers ? What are the drivers to differentiate them ?  Are you satisfied with current segmentation & customer differentiation ? What are the key benefits & areas for improvements ? 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Business model evolution in air freight industry Customer segmentation & commercial offer Commercial Organization Sales performance steering Best practices in air freight industry A A A A A A Legend Critical informationImportant informationSomewhat important information A F S Airlines Forwarders Shippers Airlines & forwarders All Interviewees Questions that need to be discussed Not a crucial / particularly relevant question for the survey Already asked during BCG customer survey Evolution trends & vision  How do you expect airline commercial offers to evolve ?  How do you evaluate your position with regards to this evolution ? Where do you stand ?  How do you plan to evolve ? What is your vision ?  Have you already launched or will soon launch projects to redesign your offer ? On what topics ?  What were the drivers of these projects & what do you expect from them ?  Are you satisfied with these projects ? What problems have you encountered ? 1 A A A A A A A A

8 Key outputs expected on sales performance steering 8 Sales activity monitoring  How do you track sales opportunities ? Do you have a sales funnel ?  What role do sales managers play in boosting/following up sales opportunities  Are you satisfied with the current way of working ? What are the key benefits & areas for improvement ? Tools & dashboards  Are you satisfied with current tools to follow customer performance ? Are they efficient ?  Are you satisfied with current tools to measure & track internal sales performance ?  What are the main improvements expected with current tools & the main problems encountered ?  Are there project launched or to be launched to improve tooling ? What are the drivers of these projects ? Sales team steering  Do sales have objectives ?  On what are these objectives based ( volume, contribution, revenues, customer satisfaction,…) ?  How important is the variable salary part ?  Are you satisfied with current sales team performance ? What are the benefits & area for improvement in your current sales performance steering structure ? 1 2 3 4 Business model evolution in air freight industry Customer segmentation & commercial offer Commercial Organization Sales performance steering Best practices in air freight industry 2 3 4 Legend Critical informationImportant informationSomewhat important information A F S Airlines Forwarders Shippers Airlines & forwarders All Interviewees Questions that need to be discussed Not a crucial / particularly relevant question for the survey Already asked during BCG customer survey Evolution trends & vision  How do you expect airline sales performance steering to evolve ?  How do you evaluate your position with regards to this evolution ? Where do you stand ?  How do you plan to evolve ? What is your vision ?  Have you already launched or will soon launch projects to boost sales performance? Topics ?  What were the drivers of these projects & what do you expect from them ?  Are you satisfied with these projects ? What problems have you encountered ? 1

9 Key outputs expected on business model evolution in air freight 9 1 2 3 4 Business model evolution in air freight industry Customer segmentation & commercial offer Commercial Organization Sales performance steering Best practices in air freight industry Air frieght market evolution  What are the drivers of air freight demand ?  How do you expect it to change in the coming years ? How will airlines respond to this change ?  How do you plan to adapt to changing demand & customer needs ?  Do you expect new players to enter the market ? What would be their value proposition ?  How big is the threat of these new entrants for traditional airlines ? Forwarders needs evolution  What are the key criteria on which you evaluate an airline ?  What drives the evolution of your needs ? Are your needs evolving quickly ?  What do you expect form airlines now and in the coming years ? Relationship with shippers  What would be the drivers for shippers to deal directly with airlines ?  What is the value added of dealing with forwarders vs airlines ? How does it match your needs ?  How do you plan your relationship with forwarders to evolve ? And with airlines ? Competition from sea & land transportation  Why would be the reasons for using air vs sea transportation ?  What is your air vs sea ratio ?  How competitive is air vs land transportation (trucks & trains on long distances) ? Why ?  What are the key advantages & drawbacks of air transportation ? 1 3 4 5 F F S S S Legend Critical informationImportant informationSomewhat important information A F S Airlines Forwarders Shippers Airlines & forwarders All Interviewees Questions that need to be discussed Not a crucial / particularly relevant question for the survey Already asked during BCG customer survey Merger & acquisitions  Are there mergers & acquisitions in the market ? What is their impact ?  Do you believe mergers & acquisition are a key stake in the market ? Why ?  Have you recently experienced a merge or made a strategic alliance ? Are you satisfied with post- merger results ? What are the benefits and what problems did you encountered ? 2


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