Handbook

Airline operations are the functional areas that are directly associated with the operations of aircraft and the provision of services for aircraft operations. This course will focus on airline resources management and will explore these ideas from the viewpoint of equipment and crew scheduling in the context of airline management.

There is strong continuity between the management of the ‘corporate’ aspects of the airline (taught in AVIA3101) and the operational aspects (taught in this course). This occurs mainly in the planning processes including fleet planning, aircraft scheduling, and crew scheduling. These important processes will be taught in this course from the viewpoint of resource allocation, utilisation, and optimisation. Some relevant topics are also covered in this course such as aircraft maintenance scheduling, operations control, air cargo, and flight on-time performance management.