Air transport management : an international perspective / edited by Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Description
366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    Commercial Air transport is a global multimillion-dollar industry that underpins the world economy and facilitates the movement of over three billion passengers and fifty million tons of air freight worldwide each year. With the clearly structured topic-based approach, this textbook presents readers with the key issues in air transport management, including: aviation law and regulation, economics, finance, airport in airline management, environmental considerations, human resource management and marketing. The book comprises carefully selected contributions for leading aviation scholars and Industry professionals worldwide. To help students in their studies the book includes case studies, examples, learning objectives, key word definitions and?stop and think? boxes to prompt reflection and aid understanding. Air transport management provides in-depth instruction for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying aviation in business management related to degrees. It also offers support to industry practitioners seeking to expand their knowledge base.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Acronyms
    • An introduction to air transport management
    • Aviation law and regulation / Ronald Bartsch and Samantha Williams
    • Aviation economics and forecasting / David Gillen
    • Airfield design, configuration and management / Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison
    • Airport systems planning and design / Richard de Neufville
    • Airport management and performance / Anne Graham
    • The airport-airline relationship / Ian Humphreys and Graham Francis
    • Airline business models / Randall Whyte and Gui Lohmann
    • Airline pricing strategies / Gareth Kitching and Peter Hind
    • Airline passengers / Andreas Wittmer and Gieri Hinnen
    • Airline scheduling and disruption management / Cheng-Lung Wu and Stephen Maher
    • Airline finance / John Jackson
    • Safety and security / Mohammed Quddus
    • Airspace and air traffic management / Lucy Budd
    • Aircraft manufacturing and technology / David Pritchard
    • Air cargo and logistics / Martin Dresner and Li Zou
    • Airlines, information communication technology and social media / Lucy Budd
    • Environmental impacts and mitigation / Thomas Budd
    • Human resource management and industrial relations / Geraint Harvey
    • Air transport marketing / Nigel Halpern
    • Air transport in remote regions / Rico Merkert
    • References and further reading
    • Index.
    ISBN
    • 9781472451033 ((hardback))
    • 1472451031 ((hardback))
    • 9781472451064 ((pbk.))
    • 1472451066 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2016016782
    OCLC
    965140429
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