THE MEEHAN AVIATION GROUP - Key Persons
David Hollander is a Senior Vice President at The Meehan Aviation Group with 30 years of experience in air transportation analysis. He previously served as Vice President at Simat, Helliesen & Eichner (SH&E). He has directed projects for airports, airlines, and government agencies, and led numerous airport and airline forecasting projects. He has directed studies focused on forecasting and accommodating future aviation demand in many of the nation's largest multi-airport markets including the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Boston, New York City and Washington D.C. He has tracked airline industry developments and trends since airline deregulation and has delivered expert presentations to the FAA Forecasting Conference, TRB's National Aviation System Planning Conference, and other industry forums. He is skilled at analyzing complex problems and producing logical, relevant and readily comprehended results. His areas of expertise include demand analysis, multi-airport market dynamics, airport passenger traffic/aircraft fleet forecasting, airline route planning, demand management, and commercial airport system planning. David is a graduate of Duke University.
Deborah Meehan is the President and CEO of The Meehan Aviation Group (TMAG). She has been in the aviation industry for 30 years and is a leader in airport forecasting and public policy. Deborah has been the President of two of the largest, most successful aviation consulting firms-Inter VISTAS and SH&E. For both of these firms she led them to be the leader in Air Service Development and P3 and served as an expert witness on aviation demand in 5 separate proceedings.
Deborah has been a leader in policies that affect U.S. airports. She testified before United States Congress on two subjects-establishing aviation ties to Cuba and instituting a Pilot Program for P3 projects at U.S. Airports.
Deborah has led multiple groundbreaking projects including:
The Construction of Massport's Runway 14/32: For Massport and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Deborah directed a multi-year study of the need for a fifth runway at Massport's Boston Logan International Airport to alleviate delay. Her specific expertise on this project was in demand forecasting and she provided forecasts of passenger and aircraft operations for a 30-year period. This study was conducted in an environment where there was a court-ordered injunction against building new runways at Logan. She defended her forecasts in Suffolk Superior Court and was successful in getting the 30-year injunction against new runways rescinded and the runway built.
Northwest Arkansas National Airport: Deborah worked directly with the Walton Family on establishing the need for a new airport in Northwest Arkansas. After establishing the demand for the airport, Deborah accompanied Mr. Sam Walton to meet with aviation industry leaders regarding serving a new airport in Bentonville, Arkansas. To this day, American, Delta and United still serve the airport. Northwest Arkansas opened in 1998 and airlines moved to it from Fayetteville, which was too small for the growing region. The airport has almost tripled in size since its opening reach 1.9 million passengers.
Deborah works at the highest levels at airports in Chicago, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles and Ontario. She is expert at forecasting demand for multi-airport markets including Los Angeles, Washington, San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago and New York. She is now working on a research paper that studies the externalities associated with the recent concentration of demand at large hub airports while smaller airports go underutilized. The on and off-airport congestion associated with passengers traveling away from the closer airport, to a more distant airport results in significant time lost and higher levels of pollution.
In the Covid environment, Deborah has been called upon by numerous airports including the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey and Miami International Airport. The unprecedented loss of demand has put our nation's largest airports in difficult financial position that requires careful analysis and strategy to help navigate the uncertain future.
She brings to TMAG years of experience working with airlines and airports. She focuses on devising strategies for airports that can be brought to airlines as immediate and profitable route opportunities. Deborah believes strongly in the efficacy of airports working with airlines and has developed an effective approach that includes empowering stakeholders to provide the final impetus for offering service at both. Ms. Meehan recognizes the vastly different challenges facing different sized airports.
Deborah was President of the Airports Consultant Council and an advisor to ACI.
Deborah is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Kelly Fleszar has over eight years of experience in the aviation industry. Ms. Fleszar specializes in financial and market analysis/forecasting. She has worked with a diverse range of clients including airports, major aviation original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) companies, commercial airlines, aircraft operators and lessors, financial institutions, and government agencies. She has been engaged in numerous due diligence reviews that include evaluating comprehensive market outlook reports, providing key analytical work highlighting supply and demand trends, assessing competition and developing financial benchmarking.
While working with a number of airport clients, both within the U.S. and internationally, Kelly has provided quantitative, long range activity and financial forecasts and business cases supporting privatization transactions, air service development efforts and carrier network studies.
Ken successfully assists clients to identify and tap hidden value in aviation assets, allowing them to successfully maximize the value of their portfolios. He has successfully managed projects throughout Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America.
Ken is an expert in activity forecasting and business plan development. He focuses on legal and economic analysis of airline and airport issues, with particular emphasis on aviation network systems, operating economics, the aviation regulatory system, and the international competitive framework of the industry. He also has a wealth of experience in the use of aviation statistics to forecast aviation activity, air service development, and airline and airport revenue and cost issues.
She specializes in air service development, strategic planning, market and economic analysis, project management and state/regional airport system planning and economic impact studies. Sonjia has previously worked for several small hub airport markets including Bozeman/Yellowstone, Burlington International, Palm Springs, Little Rock, Hilton Head Island and Islip/MacArthur airports. Ms. Murray has successfully helped attract new air service at Burlington, Bozeman/Yellowstone, Palm Springs International and Islip/MacArthur. She has led two small community air service development program (SCASDP) efforts that have resulted in grants to support new air service at Bozeman/Yellowstone, Palmdale Regional Airport as well as supported the proposal effort for Monterey-Peninsula Airport along with a number of key constituents. At Burlington, Sonjia helped attract jetBlue service to Orlando Florida and at Islip her efforts and analysis set the foundation for Frontier's decision to enter the market in 2017. For Bozeman/Yellowstone, she helped establish a coalition of public-private community partners to support a SCASDP grant that led to the success of an award and ultimately new nonstop air service from United to NY/Newark and ultimately seasonal operations from jetBlue to JFK. At Palm Springs several new routes were successfully secured to Atlanta, Sacramento and Vancouver.
In addition to working with small and non-hub airports to attract air service development, Sonjia has successfully helped large gateway hubs increase and enhance their flight offerings particularly with international flights. Sonjia has worked with large gateways supporting their air service programs in leading roles including Miami, Los Angeles, Boston/Logan, Denver, Houston and Salt Lake City. She understands the key role of large hubs in supporting air service to small and non-hub airports. Sonjia has helped to successfully secure numerous new services at Miami, Los Angeles and Boston to Europe, Asia, the Gulf/ME and Latin America. Sonjia is expert in understanding the industry data needed to analyze air service opportunities, follows carrier development closely and has the strategic insight required to develop a strong business case and has in-depth experience at developing community partnerships to help build the critical support needed to demonstrate local commitment to carriers.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Expert in Calculating the Profitability of U.S
Zoe Lindemuth is a Managing Director at The Meehan Aviation Group (TMAG). Ms. Lindemuth has a decade of experience and has primarily worked with airports to analyze their strategic position through market analysis, short-term and long-term forecasting, economic impact and the airport's profitability to the air carriers that serve the airport. She delivers analytical work that is valuable to the client and to TMAG.
Ms. Lindemuth has worked in more than 50 cities worldwide. Most recently, she was a part of HMMH's team with the FAA on the Interim Fly Quiet Analysis. During this project and the 2015 Re-Evaluation of the O'Hare EIS, Ms. Lindemuth worked closely with the FAA in Chicago. Ms. Lindemuth is currently a valued member of the team on the Environmental Assessment of the Chicago O'Hare Terminal Redevelopment Plan that is being led by HMMH.
Ms. Lindemuth is also currently working at Ontario International Airport where she has developed a catchment area analysis of the entire LA Region and from that conducted a long-term forecast for the region and the airport.
In response to Covid-19, Ms. Lindemuth has conducted a series of analyses that examine the impact that airport costs will have on the airlines that serve the airport. She has completed this analysis for the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey and Ontario International Airport. In addition, Ms. Lindemuth has helped create recovery plans for Miami International Airport and is about to begin similar work for the Commonwealth of Virginia's commercial airports.
Among Ms. Lindemuth's core areas of expertise is economic impact analysis. She recently completed an economic impact study of small community's air service on their regional economies for the Regional Air Service Alliance. This analysis was used by the Regional Airline Association (RAA) as a key part of their lobbying efforts.
Ms. Lindemuth is also expert in calculating the profitability of U.S. airlines hub operations, including Chicago's hub carriers, United and American. She created hub P&Ls for the Chicago Department of Aviation to help further inform the airport of their strategic position within the carrier's networks.
Ms. Lindemuth holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Villanova University and a Master's Degree from Rosemont College.