Guides: Business Industry Guide: Aviation and Flight Simulation (as of Spring 2020): Market and Consumer Research

Related Industry Reports

Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
Mergent Online provides business and financial information for over 23,000 U.S. and international companies. 30 years of historical stock prices are available. SEC filings (real-time and archived to 1993) are included for the 10,000+ NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchange companies. Financials for 15 years are "as reported" and can be downloaded to spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel. Select private company reports are available.

Tip: Mergent Online has a regional Asia Pacific industry report for aviation. Click on Industry Analysis, Search by Industry Aviation and filter results to Asia/Pacific.

ThomsonOne Research This link opens in a new window
ThomsonOne will be replaced with Refinitiv Workspace in 2021. For more details and registration instructions, please visit this guide.

ThomsonOne Research provides investment reports from prominent banks such as Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. These reports provide in-depth analysis and forecasts for publicly-traded companies. **This database requires Internet Explorer 11 or Microsoft Edge running compatibility mode. Go to the Tools menu (the gear icon), select “Compatibility View settings”, and then add thomsonone.com** This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Tip: Begin by clicking Screening & Analysis> Research > Research Search

Tip: This is the Advanced Research Page. Search for geographic region China and aviation or flight in the title. Be sure to change the date range to the past 5 years.

Refinitiv Workspace This link opens in a new window
Refinitiv Workspace is a library database that provides financial news, financials, global pricing data and analytics, analyst research reports, and more, including investment reports from prominent banks such as Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. These reports provide in-depth analysis and forecasts for publicly-traded companies.

Refinitiv Workspace will replace ThomsonONE in 2021. This database is available to Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff only for non-commercial, academic research, and access requires prior registration. For registration instructions, please visit this guide.
IBIS World This link opens in a new window
Access to research reports containing key statistics, industry conditions, market characteristics, industry performance, external market drivers, key success factors, and 5-year revenue forecasts for each US industry. Charts and graphs download into Excel, and detailed written analysis provides explanations and insights. Our subscription also includes Global Market Research Reports that analyze 75 of the largest industries on a world-wide scale. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Tip: IBIS World has a report that focuses on flight schools (enter aviation in the keyword search). Though this IBIS World report is US centered, the report lists some international associations that you may want to go off and use to search for data.

Rounding Out Your Research - Locating Recent News from Industry Publications

Trade publications and international news sources may be helpful in rounding out your research. Specialized publications - known as industry or trade publications - help those inside an industry to understand the most recent trends and news impacting sales, growth, and strategy.

Listed below are the two library databases for searching trade publications and international news content.

LexisNexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text coverage of approximately 15,000 national and regional newspapers, broadcast transcripts, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations and SEC filings such as 10-K's and 10-Q's. It provides access to company profiles, industry and market research information and trade journals. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations® service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff. For an overview of how to use Nexis Uni, visit this page.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Access to the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,200 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier includes full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Updated daily

Industry associations websites are available in this industry. The IBIS World report that is referenced above calls attention to several international associations for the aviation industry. They sometimes will provide reports, articles, statistics, and industry data and can be helpful in rounding out your research.