Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage (Airline Network Strategy & Planning)

TL;DR

Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage (Airline Network Strategy & Planning): Building analytically rigorous, commercially grounded airline network recommendations with an accent on airline network design, route portfolio and capacity evolution decisions, and GenAI-enabled decision support. Focus on translating schedule- and network-level analyses into executive-ready strategy and creating reusable planning tools, models, and frameworks.

Location: London | Madrid | Paris | Frankfurt

Company

hirify.global partners with leaders in business and society to deliver complex transformation and strategy-driven impact.

What you will do

• Serve as the internal go-to expert on airline network strategy for case teams, explaining how airline networks work and how to make sound network decisions.
• Identify gaps in airline network knowledge, tools, and materials, and create new analyses, frameworks, tools, and slide decks to close them.
• Design and evaluate airline network strategies, including route selection, capacity growth/shrink decisions, network evolution over time, and responses to demand, cost, and competitive changes.
• Turn network mechanics into practical, economically sound strategy recommendations for consulting engagements.
• Build and improve reusable network planning tools, including models and GenAI-enabled solutions usable across multiple client engagements.
• Create executive-ready materials (slides, benchmarks, playbooks) and support airline client meetings and working sessions with network strategy expertise.

Requirements

• 3–6+ years of direct airline network planning experience (commercial airline network planning/strategy or top-tier consulting with substantial hands-on exposure).
• Experience with O&D demand analysis and route-level profitability, plus schedule design and seasonal planning cycles.
• Experience in route and frequency planning and fleet/aircraft assignment tradeoffs.
• Hands-on experience with airline planning tools such as NetLine/Plan, Sabre AirVision, Amadeus Sky Suite, or similar (direct usage strongly preferred).
• Strong understanding of airline economics, network effects, scheduling constraints, and capacity planning logic (crew planning/rostering experience is less relevant).
• Fluency in English.

Culture & Benefits

• Embedded expertise model collaborating across BCG Practice Areas and markets.
• Work with global topic leads and colleagues in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment.
• Opportunity to develop proprietary IP through reusable tools, analyses, and executive materials.
• Equal opportunity employer; employment consideration without regard to protected characteristics.

Hiring process

• Submit an application and introduce yourself for consideration.