1. www.statistik.atWe provide information 27 th Voorburg Group Meeting Warsaw 1-5 October Updated Sector Paper on Air Transport Christian Puchter Statistics Austria Warsaw 1. October 2012

2. www.statistik.atslide 2 | 21 May 2015 Updated Sector Paper Format  Based on the findings of previous papers  Highlight developments in the respective industry  Identify and incorporate any changes in classification  Provide information on methodological developments  To keep the description of the sector up-to-date

3. www.statistik.atslide 3 | 21 May 2015 Air Transport Voorburg Group History  2003 Mini presentations about SPPI developments  2004 Mini presentations and Principal Paper on Producers Price Indexes  2009 Revisited Sector Paper on Air Transport  2010 Adjusting for Quality Change  2011 Revisited paper - Adjusting for Quality Change

4. www.statistik.atslide 4 | 21 May 2015 Industry Classification ISIC Rev.4 TitleNAICS 2007 TitleANZSIC 2006 TitleNACE Rev.2 Title 51 Air transport481 Air transportation490Air and space transport 51Air transport 511 Passenger air transport 4811 Scheduled air Transportation 4900 Air passenger transport 51.1 Passenger air transport 512 Freight air transport 4812 Non-scheduled air transportation Air freight transport 51.2 Freight air transport and space transport Aircraft charter, lease or rental, with crew, for freight and/or passengers No changes

5. www.statistik.atslide 5 | 21 May 2015 Product Classification CPC Ver.2 TitleNAPCS (Provisional) TitleCPA 2008 Title 64 65 Passenger transport services Freight transport services 481 Air transportation 51 Air transport services 6424 Air transport services of passengers 48111 Scheduled passenger transportation by air (huge number of further subgroups) 51.10 Passenger air transport services 64245 Space transport services of passengers 48112 Nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation (huge number of further subgroups) 51.2 Freight air transport 6531 Air transport services of freight 51.22 Space transport services 6532 Space transport services of freight No changes

6. www.statistik.atslide 6 | 21 May 2015 Industry Developments  Airline Alliances  Mergers and acquisitions  Low Cost Carriers  Computer Reservations Systems

7. www.statistik.atslide 7 | 21 May 2015 Industry Developments cont.

8. www.statistik.atslide 8 | 21 May 2015 Market Trends  Yield Management Systems  Air passenger taxes  European Union Emission Trading Scheme

9. www.statistik.atslide 9 | 21 May 2015 Information collected for Air Transport  Turnover: Short Term Statistics (STS) Structural Business Statistics (SBS)  SPPIs: Business to business Business to consumers (households) Business to all

10. www.statistik.atslide 10 | 21 May 2015 Turnover: NSI Practice CategoryNumber of Countries Countries collecting (STS) turnover data29 Data Source Statistical surveys18 Survey & administrative data6 Administrative data5 Collection frequency Monthly13 Bimonthly and quarterly1 Monthly & quarterly6 Quarterly9

11. www.statistik.atslide 11 | 21 May 2015 SPPI: NSI Practice CategoryNumber of Countries Countries developing or producing SPPIs26 Type of index b2b10 b2c3 b2all13 Pricing method (double counting) Transaction pricing22 Unit value6 CPI data3 Contract pricing2 Model Pricing1 Collection frequency Quarterly16 Monthly10 Availability Publishing the index20 Produced but not published6

12. www.statistik.atslide 12 | 21 May 2015 SPPI Pricing Methods  Direct use of prices of repeated services  Unit values  CPI

13. www.statistik.atslide 13 | 21 May 2015 SPPI Methodology Surveyed products  Product list defined with the respondents (8)  Specific products or transactions agreed with each individual observation unit (5)  Standard statistical product list (e.g. CPA) (4)  Self developed product list (2) Data collection  Postal and phone surveys  Electronic questionnaires via mail  Electronically reporting system

14. www.statistik.atslide 14 | 21 May 2015 Quality Adjustment  VBG agenda items in 2010 and 2011  Implicit methods preferred  Overlap method  Comparable replacement

15. www.statistik.atslide 15 | 21 May 2015 Main Conclusions  Turnover part is well developed  A sample of few enterprises results in a market coverage above 70% in regard to turnover coverage  Flexible economy class booking categories should also be considered for SPPIs  Monthly/Quarterly average prices presumably more accurate in regard to the characteristics of yield management systems

16. www.statistik.atslide 16 | 21 May 2015 Main Conclusions cont.  CPI data for air transport for b2b SPPIs or the consumer part of b2all SPPIs (two other methods lead)  IATAs Cargo Account Settlement System (CASS) for freight air transport  Electronically reporting systems  To quality adjust in the case that the production function has changed

17. www.statistik.atslide 17 | 21 May 2015 Please address queries to: Christian Puchter Contact information: Guglgasse 13, 1110 Vienna phone: +43 (1) 71128-7647 fax: +43 (1) 718 0 718 christian.puchter.@statistik.gv.at