Senior Analyst - BCG Vantage, Airline Commercial & Operations

Locations: London | Madrid | Paris | Frankfurt

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What You'll Do

As a Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage focused on Airline Commercial & Operations, you will bring deep, hands-on expertise from your own background in the airline or airport industry — whether that's network planning, commercial (loyalty, customer experience, marketing), airport operations, ground handling, flight operations, or station management — and use it to help case teams ground their recommendations in how the industry actually works, not just how it's designed to work on paper.

You will act as a thought partner to case teams and sector/topic leaders, supporting proposal efforts, client engagements, IP development, and tool design. In this role, you will:

• Bring your specific expertise to case teams, helping them understand how things really work in your part of the airline or airport business

• Spot gaps in BCG's aviation knowledge, tools, and materials, and help fill them by creating new analyses, frameworks, tools, and slide decks

• Flag when a strategic recommendation looks good on paper but wouldn't hold up in practice, based on your own experience

• Work with consulting teams to turn your knowledge into clear, practical strategic recommendations

• Build and improve reusable tools, including GenAI-enabled solutions, that case teams can use across engagements

• Create clear, executive-ready materials (slides, benchmarks, playbooks) for senior airline and consulting leaders

• Join airline and airport client meetings and working sessions to bring your expertise to live discussions

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Explaining how things really work in your part of the industry, not just how they're supposed to work

• Spotting where a recommendation will run into real-world friction

• Translating your own experience into insight that's useful to people who haven't worked in your part of the industry

• Working hands-on with people and real business problems, not just data and models

• Collaborating across global teams in fast-paced, high-expectation environments

What You'll Bring

• 3–6+ years of direct hands-on experience in the airline or airport industry, ideally in a role where you had to make real decisions or solve real problems. Backgrounds we're especially interested in:

  • Network planning or schedule strategy
  • Airport operations or airport capital projects
  • Ground operations or ground handling
  • Flight operations, including pilots, Station management or day-of-operations

• Backgrounds primarily focused on revenue management are less relevant for this role.

• Familiarity with the tools and systems relevant to your specific background (e.g., network planning platforms like NetLine/Plan or Sabre AirVision; loyalty/CRM systems; airport operations or capex management systems; flight planning or scheduling tools). Direct hands-on usage strongly preferred.

• Strong, first-hand understanding of how your part of the airline or airport business actually works such as its economics, constraints, and trade-offs

• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required if offset by strong, demonstrable industry experience

• Interest in applying analytics and GenAI to your area of expertise

• Comfort operating in a consulting environment, including owning slide creation and executive messaging for senior stakeholders based on detailed analytical work

• Fluency in English; additional language skills are a plus

Who You'll Work With

As a Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path, you will collaborate with global topic leads and colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities to the service of our internal and external clients. Our team is made up of a diverse pool of BCG Vantage positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative BCG Vantage careers.

Additional info

BCG Vantage is a powerhouse of expertise, seamlessly embedded within Practice Areas and markets to drive extraordinary impact. It equips BCG case teams and clients with cutting-edge expertise, proprietary assets, actionable data, and transformative insights that empower our case teams and enable our clients to achieve their aspirations.

With global experts across 20 Practices, covering more than 100 topics, sectors and offers, plus four focused geographic markets, BCG Vantage delivers unparalleled depth and breadth of insight & expertise. BCG Vantage consists of three career paths, each playing a crucial role in delivering value to clients, case teams and practice teams.

Client Focus (Embedded Expertise)

Integrates into client-facing teams to deliver direct client impact through expertise, know-how, and proprietary tools and assets

Topic Activation (Sector Expertise with Proprietary Tool & Data Solutions)

Combines deep domain insights with our know-how and proprietary assets to address targeted challenges directly with clients and project teams; co-creates insights on industry trends and functional topics, proprietary data and tools, and teams to codify IP that all enables BCG to deliver excellent business value with its clients

Research (Practice Topic and Sector-Aligned Research and Insights)

Delivers actionable research and insights tailored to the client project’s needs; works with qualitative and quantitative data, conducts research and provides synthesized results from sources including commercial data, public and open source, company and industry research, macro-economic, commodities and trade data.

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