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PART A Crowair Plc is a low cost airline operating short routes serving UK regional airports and other airports across Europe. A low cost carrier (LCC) is a type of airline that provides air travel for a lesser fee and with less/fewer comfort (Wikipedia, low cost carrier).To make up for their lower fares the airline charges extra for food and services, baggage, priority seating etc.; this is otherwise known as the ancillary revenue which is an important financial element for a LCC. Crowair’s…

instructed ET 409 to turn right on a heading of 315°. ET 409 acknowledged and heading 315° was selected on the Mode Control Panel (MCP). As the aircraft was on a right turn, Control suggested to ET 409 to follow heading 270° “due to weather”. However, ET 409 continued right turn beyond the selected heading of 315. At 00:38:30, the actual heading of the aircraft exceeded the 315° selected heading without any action from the captain to reduce the roll or to stop the turn, although the Flying…

Traveling can be very stressful sometimes - no matter if you are traveling to another domestic city for business or to a foreign country for pleasure, airport transfer services can truly come in handy. After a long flight, the last thing you want or need is to rent a car and start driving to your hotel. This is where the airport transfers step in and make sure you get a comfortable ride all the way to your destination. Available for executives, families, small or large groups as well as for…

Pilot training- A gateway to a wonderful aviation career Everyone dreams to make big and soar with success in life. The choice of a career plays a big role in deciding the fate of your dream. In today’s time there are countless number of options available that make our decision far more complicated than easy. The key to selecting a right career is to start early in life by assessing your interests, strengths and weakness as your personality traits must be compatible to your occupation. It is…

Association’s (IATA), annual Maintenance Cost Task Force (2015) reported carriers paid $1,000 per flight hour and $2,637 per departure with an average cost of $3.5 million per aircraft. Direct maintenance costs only make up a portion of all maintenance expenses. On average carriers will employ 12 mechanics and 5 maintenance staff per aircraft (Cros, 2015). Additionally, to facilitate rapid maintenance carriers must stock spare parts. The cost of spares total $1.10 per dollar spent on direct…

There was no defining moment that got me hooked on flying. Maybe it is because my dad is a captain for Alaska Airlines or because my parents had me flying around the country on my own as soon as I could walk and talk. I do know one thing, on the Sunday morning of my first flight lesson, I was so excited for the journey I was about to embark upon. I promised myself that I would not get my hopes up, but once I was in the air, the feeling was indescribable. When my dad asked how it was, I had the…

causal events. This model illustrates how a particular risk is resolved into its constituent parts. In this representation, the decomposed risk category e.g. Technical Risk appear near the top of the hierarchy, while low level data terms such as aircraft velocity, are at the bottom, the most specific part of the…

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 case study considered in this research is from one of the leading aircraft industries in Bangalore, India. The company manufactures light and micro light aircrafts. More than 60 of the aircrafts are given to NCC for abinitio training and 15 others for various civil agencies. TABLE I GENERAL SYMBOLS TO UNDERSTAND VALUE Supplier or customer Shared Process box Inverntory WIP Stagnation Dedicated Maintenance Box Electronic Information Flow First In First Out Lane Physical Flow…

There are number of risk involved in the aviation especially in the terms of operation and safety as internal safety of the aircraft is an inherent function of management. Modifications and improvement in safety is a continual process however there are much safety kept in the form clothing, noise control, temperature and electrical control. For the aircraft there are fabrics for fire safety and precaution like Nomex, Kevlar and PBI. For fire safety and protection at high temperature PBI is the…