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How to pull off business intelligence and a passion for travel?

It’s easier to build a stellar career when you mix your business intelligence skills with your passion for travel.

Here’s how to do it:

Start with your performance!

Are you a business trends and analysis geek who is well versed with emerging tools, technologies, pricing models, cost efficiencies and analysis of information? Can you use and understand the potential of effective revenue management, pricing strategies, economies of scale, sharing economies, information visualisations and many other analysis techniques? These are the skills that you are admired for, by your peers and friends.

Now match the passion.

Airlines and Aviation

Consider career opportunities that mix your passion for airlines and aviation with your skills.

Can you answer these?
You’ve been recently hired to work at LATAM Airlines and your duty is to set prices for the route flying between cities AAA and BBB. Is it possible to capture all of the corporate and tourist demand on planes with only economy class seats?

A new employee suggested an auction – or last minute sale – should be made on seats in order to sell them to the best buyer. Do you agree with the statement? What would be the short/long term impacts of deploying this procedure?

Your job is to maximize the airline’s annual profit with a $150 million budget. How many aircraft of each type should be bought in order to maximize annual profit?

GapJumpers is a question-and-answer website where industry experts ask questions to spot top talent who can bring performance and passion into the work place.