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M.Sc. In Air Transport Management Program › Courses › Fundamentals of Airline Management (2015-2016)

Fundamentals of Airline Management (2015-2016)

Course Instructors

The course will be given by the instructors Dr. Fariba Alamdari, Bruce Tecklenburg and Alex Philip from Boeing, and Dr. Joanna Szydlo-Moore from Circculus Corporate Consulting. Their bio can be seen below:

Dr. Fariba Alamdari
Bruce Tecklenburg
Alex Philip
Dr. Joanna Szydlo-Moore

Course Information

General course information can be found from this link.

Course Requirements

The graded course elements and the assigned weights are listed below (100 per cent total):

20 percent - Individual contribution to case discussion ("participation")
30 percent - Case study report
50 percent - Final Examination

Each component of a student's grade in this course will be assigned as a percentage grade (ranging from 0% to 100%). The final grade for the course will be calculated by multiplying each grade by the weight in the grading system described above.

Course letter grades will be assigned using the plus/minus system. As a guideline, students should target at least a performance level of 90 percent to earn A- or above, 80 percent to earn B- or above, and 70 percent to earn a C. The assignment of plus/minus within these general grade categories will be determined based on breaks in overall distribution of grades and the instructor's discretion.

The more you put into the course, the more you get out of it.

Course Schedule

Course schedule can be reached from this link.

Course Goals

Course goals can be seen from this link.

Lecture Notes

Lecture notes can be seen in the table below:

Main Lecture Notes
	Business Environment
	Current Market
	Case Study Introduction
	Airline Strategies and Business Models
	Finance
	Airline Economics
	Airplane Value Analysis
	Network and Fleet Scheduling
	Revenue Management
	Airplane Performance
	Monte Carlo Analysis Techniques Applied to Airplane Performance
	SWOT Analysis of Turkish Airlines

Case Study Materials

Case study materials can be reached from the links given in the table below:

Case Study Materials
	Introduction for Case Study and Score Cards
	Case Study Overview
	Current Market Outlook
	Finance
	Fleet Evaluation
	Network and Schedule Planning
	Operations
	Regulatory & Environmental Affairs
	Sales and Marketing

Case Study Introductions can be seen below:

Introductions
	Monday Introduction
	Tuesday Introduction
	Thursday Introduction

Several types of data related to the case studies can be seen in the tables below:

Case Study Extra Materials
	MonteCristoAir - Current Market Outlook
	Finance Senior Management Meeting Ratio Analysis
	Fleet Evaluation Airplane Characteristics - Current Fleet
	Operation Document Operating Stats
	Route Maps and Cities
	Finance Internal Document - Aircraft Pricing
	Fleet Composition
	Fleet Evaluation Airplane Characteristics - Single-Aisle Candidates
	Operations Department Flight Delays
	Finance email - Jet Fuel Prices
	Finance and Fleet Evaluation Department - Financial Report
	Fleet Evaluation Airplane Characteristics - Single-Aisle Candidates
	Air Traffic Services Planning
	Fleet Evaluation Airplane Characteristics - Twin-Aisle Candidates, Three-Class Interiors
	Payload - Range Capability
	Finance Department - Aircraft Finance Market
	Information for All - MTA Flight Timetable
	Airbus - Payload-Range Capability
	All departments - Previous Year Route Profitability Report
	Boeing - Payload-Range Capability
	Boeing - Payload-Range Capability
	Boeing - Payload-Range Capability
	Airbus - Payload-Range Capability
	Fleet Evaluation - Airplane Characteristics, Single Aisle Airplanes, Two-Class Interiors

Suggested Readings

In addition to lecture notes, the reference materials given below are suggested to the students.

Rigard Doganis, "Flying Off Course: The Economics of International Airlines"
Rigard Doganis, "The Airline Business"
Peter S. Morrell, "Airline Finance"
Peter S. Morrell, "Moving Boxes by Air"
Pat Hanlon, "Global Airlines"
Stephen Holloway, "Straight and Level: Practical Airline Economics"
Journal of Air Transport Management

Supplemental Materials

Additional materials can be seen in the table below:

Extra Materials
	Presentation by Temel Kotil