Consulting projects for airports worldwide
Before founding Verifavia, Julien Dufour was a Senior Consultant with SH&E (now ICF International) in London, UK. During his 5 years with Sh&E, he provided advisory services and technical assistance to numerous airports, governments and financial institutions around the world on projects related to airport infrastructures, concession studies, airport management and traffic forecasts.
Main airport projects include:
Main airport projects include:
- Government of Algeria / The World Bank, Algiers, Algeria - Definition of a Private Sector Participation Strategy for Algerian airports.
- Brussels International Airport Company, Brussels, Belgium – Prepared detailed air service marketing studies to attract Gulf Air and Emirates to Brussels.
- Government of Madagascar / The World Bank, Antananarivo, Madagascar – Advised on private sector participation (PSP) in the airport system: prepared long term traffic forecasts, 15-year investment plans and financial models for 16 airports, explored local participation opportunities in the PSP process, identified optimum PSP strategy, and set up bidding strategy and calendar.
- Government of Algeria / Sterling Merchant Finance, Algiers, Algeria – Advised on the privatization of Algiers International Airport (concession contract): performed technical and operational diagnosis, prepared traffic forecasts over 25 years, set up capital expenditure plan, financial model, and concession strategy.
- GMR Infrastructure / Hyderabad International Airport Ltd.,Hyderabad, India – Prepared detailed 30-year traffic forecasts for a new international airport in Hyderabad that were used as an input into the master, financial, and marketing plans – Prepared a 30-year route start-up plan – Convinced a leading Indian investment bank to fund the airport construction project.
- Airports Authority of India / ABN Amro, Delhi & Mumbai, India – Prepared detailed long term traffic forecasts for Delhi and Mumbai airports as part of the modernization and restructuring project.
- Alterra Partners, London, U.K. – Prepared detailed long-term traffic forecasts for Larnaca and Paphos airports (Cyprus) as part of a concession bid.
- Aer Rianta, Dublin, Ireland – Advised Irish airports on capital expenditure programs.
- Budapest Airport Rt, Budapest, Hungary – Advised on the allocation of airlines to Terminal 1, and the pricing of that terminal.
