Chris Tarry

Aviation Industry Research and Advisory
CTAIRA

Chris Tarry worked outside the City of London for a number of years. In 1984 he became an engineering analyst, focusing first on aviation and was voted the UK’s leading aerospace analyst for the years that there was a separate FTSE grouping. He then switched to focusing wholly on transport, particularly airlines, a sector he has followed professionally since 1986. In this period Chris was also regularly ranked in the top three European transport analysts and led a number of major international share issues.

In December 2002 Chris established CTAIRA to provide research, consulting services and advice on and to the transport and aviation industries in the areas of business planning - including strategy and strategic development; industry and market forecasting, as well as performance measurement and evaluation. These services are provided to a broad and growing spectrum of clients; airlines, manufacturing companies, airport owners, government bodies, banks and other financial institutions, covering a wide range of strategic, financial and market related issues.

Chris continues to act as an advisor to government departments in the UK and elsewhere, and the British Parliament on aviation issues, including the review of air transport arrangements for the Royal Family and senior Government ministers. He has also been a member of the UK CAA’s advisory group regarding the charging regime for the UK’s regulated airports.
He has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in economics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, a member of the Securities Institute and a Liveryman  of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators.

Chris also holds a private pilot’s licence. He gives regular lectures at Oxford University and the London School of Economics and is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Management at the University of Surrey. 

He writes a monthly column for Airline Business and regularly writes and comments in other media on industry issues, as well as presenting and chairing conferences across the world.