Howard K. Mann

Vice President

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Mann joined Campbell-Hill in February 2015 as a Vice President. He brings to the firm more than twenty years of wide-ranging aviation consulting and Washington experience.

Throughout his career, he has created and implemented strategies to grow and retain traffic for both incumbent and potential new entrant carriers at airports around the world. In his previous role, he led numerous successful air service and aeropolitical projects at ranging from domestic and international gateways and large, medium and small hub airports. Some of his client wins have taken place in Orlando (MCO), San Francisco, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Quito, San Jose, CR, Halifax, Columbus and many others.

Mr. Mann has an in-depth comprehension of market data from government and community sources, an understanding of the changing business models of target air carriers, successful approaches to airline incentive offerings and forecasting skills to work with carriers on expected performance. He is a frequent speaker at airport community events, board meetings and industry conferences regarding air service development strategy. Mr. Mann brings a unique approach to air service development by incorporating aeropolitical and passenger facilitation policies into route proposals in order to ensure new itineraries are sustainable in the future.

Prior to a role at another consulting firm for 9 years, he served with ACI-NA where he worked extensively with U.S. and Canadian airport members on a wide variety of issues including bilateral air service policy, domestic air service and passenger facilitation.

Mr. Mann has been involved in many recent new routes including Aer Lingus, Southwest, Icelandair, Alaska, JetBlue, Air France, United, American, Delta, Air China, Condor, Volaris, Aeromexico, Turkish, SAS, Korean and EVA Airways to client airports. He has also done extensive regulatory support work for the clients across multiple federal agencies in Washington, D.C.

Areas of Specialization

  • Strategic air service planning
  • Bilateral market review
  • Border/Security Facilitation assessment
  • Airport survey design and implementation
  • Route forecasting
  • Incentive program design
  • Economic analysis of aviation issues
  • Analysis of industry issues
  • Public speaking

Education

B.A. Dual Major, Business Management & American History, University of Pittsburgh