Avianca Flight 52

important safety improvements and upgrades; some of them are felt the moment you sent foot on a plane as. On June 30, 1956 the commercial aviation of the USA was hit by one of the worst accidents in those days in terms of money spent. TWA flight 2 and united airlines flight 718 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon due to both of them flying in the same airspace. Its aftermath had great consequences, which even stretch to the present day. An upgrade was made on the ATC system and a lot of…

Duties of Airline Pilot An aircraft pilot is accountable for the Safety and Security of the aircraft, travellers, crew members and cargo under various air traffic circumstances. Roles of an airline pilot are somewhat stimulating which can be accomplished successfully if the pilot is well skilled in all phases. The main role is positively to fly the aircraft securely from the departure airport to the target. Other than the air route there are other concerns as well that the Pilot has to take care…

Doing business in the aeronautics sector means dealing with highly competitive environment and after losing some share market to Airbus, Boeing decided in 2004 to build a new aircraft making it outsourcing strategy deeper in order to save money and to be more profitable on the market. Building a new aircraft is very expensive and take very long time so the top management wanted to make it cheaper and faster in order to face the hard competition with the European leader airline Airbus (owned by…

that are either below or above the normal fare for the flight or hotel bookings and reservations. It is amazing to know that one can take advantage of this, even on a low budget, you can travel to seamless locations and make reservations at unbelievable rates. The prices are too good true, for example you can get an error fare of $500 for a flight ticket of $5,000. In the article we shall be diving into the real concept behind error fares for flight bookings and how you can take advantage of…

This risk assessment model is created by knowledge elicitation from the subject matter experts within the airline organization. The model represents risk as a hierarchical decomposition of contributing factors, whose interrelationships are represented by a fuzzy rule set. The decomposition of risk can help to identify those elements that contribute most significantly to the calculated risk and hence allows us to take the necessary mitigating action. 3.2 BASIS OF APPROACH The civil aviation…

Information goods Information goods to not highlight in the airline industry as a seller, however airlines do use information goods, as with other industries, in some format. Airlines that provide in-flight movies and music are making use of providing information goods to their customers especially if they charge a fee for this. Weather reports (Ward 2016) is another illustration of a very beneficial information good used by airlines when deciding on diversions within routes. The importance…

The legal issue in this circumstance is of the contract and its validity. The first factor to consider is to determine if a contract even exists. The drink company implied, through a commercial advertisement that if an individual earned seven million company points, they would be rewarded with a jet. It needs to be determined if this was an offer made in the advertisement. The individual saw this commercial and did, in fact, reach the 7 million company points. He then wrote to the company and…

Revenue management (RM) was first implemented in the 1970s and practised mainly within the airline industry, also known as airline yield management (Cross, Higbie, & Cross., 2009). Smith (1992) described revenue management as “selling the right seats to the right customers at the right price” (as cited in Schuessler, 2010). In the late 1980s, the hotel industry adopted this practice from the airline industry, with a similar objective to increase revenue. The implementation of RM by American…

Domestic flight is the air travel within only one country while international flight is the air travel among at least two different countries. By the number of transit in the air travel, it also can be divided into two types: non-stop or direct flight and connection flight. Air travel is a more and more popular mode of transportation with the progress of the economy in the world. It is overwhelmingly…

Fly Dubai Dubai Aviation Corporation, under the brand name Fly Dubai is a low-airline fully owned by the Dubai Government with its main hub and flight operation center at Dubai International Airport Terminal 2. Fly Dubai was originally established in July 2008 by the government of Dubai (Flydubai.com (1), 2014). Emirates supported Fly Dubai during the establishment phase, though it is not part of the Emirates Group (Hofmann, 2014). At the Farnborough Air Show on July 14, 2008, Fly Dubai placed…