Michael Lum Managing Partner
Michael has been working with clients on air service strategy and development for the last eight years. He brings more than a dozen years of airline planning experience to Volaire Aviation. He offers clients his insight into how airlines make new route decisions and how airlines project the financial performance of each route. Michael spent nine years at American Airlines, where he worked in American Eagle Planning and Marketing. His responsibilities included route and schedule planning, network, fleet and competitive analysis, codeshare relationships, negotiating minimum revenue guarantees with airports, and ad hoc corporate development projects. Michael has been a key negotiator between American Eagle and many airports seeking to partner with the airline for new and expanded service. He understands air service development from “the other side of the table.” In his last three years with the airline, American Eagle launched 118 new routes.
In addition to his career at American, Michael also spent time at both KPMG and Andersen Consulting. He managed projects in transportation and travel services industries, working for clients who included United Parcel Service (UPS), Airborne Express, Trans World Airlines (TWA), Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), and Norfolk Southern. Michael has an MBA in Corporate Finance. He is based in Dallas, Texas and can be reached at michael.lum@volaireaviation.com.