Aviation and air transport management

In addition, as specialist skills become necessary for increasingly complex aerospace business environmentare now available focussing on the operational, regulatory and financial aspects of the industry are such as air transport management, aviation management and airline and airport management.

Area of study on these courses include:

• Yield Management - how airlines price seats with very cheap and very expensive ticket prices depending on fullness
• Regulation - looking at air space regulation, safety rules
• Procurement - such as fuel negotiation and 'hedging' arrangements; on-board catering
• Cost control
• Human Factors - psychology and behavioural understanding to improve safety requirements
• Airline and Airport Operations Management
• Marketing, finance, HR and other business fields in an aviation context

As with some engineering degrees, several management courses are combined with pilot studies, with time out from university life during the course at a partner Flight Training School. Some are structured so that you not only gain a PPL, but by the time you graduate you will have both a degree and frozen ATPL!