Program Overview

BSc (Honours) Airline and Airport Management (1 year top-up)

Course Summary

This course prepares students for a career in the airline and airport industries by developing the skills necessary for strategic management, customer service excellence, and safety/security protocols. Students will learn about airline and airport operations management, pricing strategy and resource management, and aviation safety and security management.

How You Learn

• A combination of lectures, seminars, and workshops
• Expert guest speakers
• Field trips and site visits
• Live projects with external organisations
• Independent study
• Group work

Modules

Final Year

Compulsory Modules

• Consultancy And Enterprise Challenge (40 credits)
  • Module Aim: To prepare students for a career as a professional in festival, entertainment, hospitality, tourism, and aviation management by providing an opportunity to work on a company-based project or their own venture.
  • Indicative content:
    • The nature of consultancy/role of the consultant
    • The tender process
    • Business models
    • Consultancy project planning and management
    • Data collection and analysis for consultancy purposes
    • Effective communication and relationship management
    • The application of appropriate frameworks (and industry experience) to understand stakeholders, organisations, and the contemporary business environment
    • Identifying enterprise opportunities and responding to those
    • Change management and leadership
    • Financial appraisal of the solutions developed
    • Personality theory and team roles
    • Reflection on current knowledge, achievements, skills, abilities, and aptitudes in relation to graduate employability and improving career potential
    • Introduction to as wide a range of situations as possible to allow students the opportunity to experience decision-making situations and to develop relevant skills in the area from the viewpoint of managers and other stakeholders
    • Taking a professional and ethical approach to consultancy with sustainability and inclusivity (among other principles) in mind
• Research Project (20 credits)
  • Aims:
    • To engage students to identify a research question and to design and develop a research method to investigate this question presenting results in an academic research project format.
  • Indicative content:
    • Critical appraisal of academic research literature and the logical synthesis of this into a literature review
    • How to articulate clear research aim and objectives
    • Critical appraisal of research methods and approaches
    • How to source, analyse and synthesise qualitative and/or quantitative data
    • Ethics in research
    • Risk assessment
    • Developing research skills and presenting research outcomes which demonstrate academic rigour
• Safety And Security Management In Aviation (20 credits)
  • Aims:
    • To enable students to identify and analyse the key safety and security issues in the aviation industry and critically examine how airlines and airports manage such issues.
  • Indicative content:
    • Development of commercial aviation safety
    • Safety deficiencies, hazards, risks, and consequences
    • Human factors in aviation safety
    • Safety management system (SMS)
    • The role of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB)
    • Security policies and procedures
    • Emergency planning and procedures
• Strategic Management For Airline And Airport Development (40 credits)
  • Aims:
    • To develop and apply the key strategic management principles and tools to the management and development of airlines and airports.
  • Indicative content:
    • Airport master planning, including airport systems, land and airside capacity planning and dynamic strategic planning
    • Strategic management concepts, processes, and models
    • Changing global and business environments and the implications for airlines and airports
    • Responsible airport development
    • Situation analysis-based strategic planning
    • Strategic purpose, organisational culture, ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in aviation
    • Creating and sustaining strategic competitive advantage through value creation
    • Aviation environmental impacts and airline and airport business level mitigations
    • Impact of aviation (airport and airlines) development on local communities
    • Assessment & management of environmental impacts
    • Sustainable aviation - key factors towards a sustainable future of the aviation industry e.g. demand, technology

Future Careers

This course prepares students for a career in:

• Airline and airport customer management
• Airline operations management
• Airport operations management
• Aviation safety and security management
• Air traffic management
• Pricing strategy and resource management
• Sales and marketing

Equipment and Facilities

On this course, you work with specialist airline management simulation software, including the Merlin Flight Simulator.

We’ve invested over £100m in new facilities to help you study how and when you want. This means 24-hour libraries and study spaces designed by our students.

Where Will I Study?

You study at City Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars, and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.

Entry Requirements

• Normally one from:
  • A HND or foundation degree in a relevant subject, with an overall merit profile from year two modules
  • Equivalent qualification in a relevant subject
• You can find information on making sense of UCAS tariff points here and use the UCAS tariff calculator to work out your points.
• If English is not your first language you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 or above, with a minimum score of 5.5 in each skill.

Fees and Funding

• Home students: £9,535 for the course
• International students: £17,155 per year

Additional Course Costs

The links below allow you to view estimated general course additional costs, as well as costs associated with key activities on specific courses. These are estimates and are intended only as an indication of potential additional expenses. Actual costs can vary greatly depending on the choices you make during your course.

General course additional costs

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