AIR TRANSPORT FUNDAMENTALS - 2017/8

Module provider

Hospitality & Tourism Management

Module Leader

HARES AE Dr (Hosp & Tour)

Number of Credits

15

Module cap (Maximum number of students)

N/A

Module Availability

Semester 1

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

Group presentation will be replaced by an individual assignment on the presentation topic of 2000 words.

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

None.

Module overview

This module introduces key issues in air transport management and provide students with fundamental skills in airline/airport operations and management.

Module aims

provide students with an understanding of key issues affecting the management of the air transport industry

enhance students'understanding of the business and operational challenges faced by airlines and airports

Learning outcomes

Module content

Indicative content includes:


Introduction to the aviation system
Regulatory issues in the air transport industry
Scheduled, charter and low cost airlines
Flight scheduling
Crew rostering
Flight operations control
Delay management
Aircraft maintenance planning
Baggage handling
Route planning for low-cost carriers
Route planning for network airlines
The airport business
Airport planning and design
Airport operations
Airline airport relationships
Air cargo
Air traffic management (infrastructure and performance)
Aviation safety and security
Aircraft manufacturers, finance and performance

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The teaching and learning strategy is designed to provide a framework of contemporary knowledge and theories supported by examples from industry. The current issues and debates will be highlighted so that the students are able to apply critical thinking to the literature. The teaching and learning methods are based on a series of lectures and, where appropriate case studies and guest lectures.

The learning and teaching methods include:


Lectures (2 hours x 11 sessions)
Seminars and/or class discussion (1 hours x 11 sessions)

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is aimed at giving students the opportunity to gradually build up their knowledge and understanding of fundamental issues in the air transport management and is designed to allow students to evidence their achievement of the learning outcomes. The assessment comprises an individual assignment and a group presentation.

Thus, the summative assessment for this module consists of:

As part of the first assessment component (i.e., the individual assignment), students are examined based on critically reviewing the literature, theories and techniques related to fundamental issues in air transport management. This report has a target length of 2000 words.

For the second assessment (i.e., the group presentation) students will be working as a group to solve a practical issue faced by a company in the air transport industry.

Formative assessment and feedback

During the first seminar, the assignments and the feedback process is explained

Feedback is also provided during and after in-class discussions

As the seminars are built around topic-specific group exercises, students do not only benefit from lecture’s feedback but also receive peer evaluations

A pre-assignment feedback session is an integral part of this module. During this session, students work in groups on a task which reflects the assignment requirements and receive feedback on their work

Once marking is completed, students are able to access a report online which contains detailed generic feedback as well as a breakdown of marks. This enables students to assess their own performance compared to their peer students

Summative feedback

For the first assessment, students receive written feedback together with their returned reports. Apart from comments on the scripts, a formal sheet outlines students’ strengths, areas for improvements and suggestions on how to improve students’ performance for other assignments.

A post-assignment feedback session is designed to help students to fully understand the feedback given, which is particularly important at this stage as the report is one of the first assignments that students submit. 

Reading list

Reading list for AIR TRANSPORT FUNDAMENTALS : http://aspire.surrey.ac.uk/modules/manm330

Programmes this module appears in

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