Air Transport Planning
Abbreviation: PLZRPR Load: 30(L) + 15(E) + 0(LE) + 15(S) + 0(FLE) + 0(PEE)
Lecturers in charge: dr. sc. Ružica Škurla Babić
Lecturers: Maja Ozmec-Ban ( Exercises )
doc. dr. sc. Ružica Škurla Babić ( Exercises, Seminar )
Course description: Airline traffic and financial performance indicators. Airline efficiency, labour productivity, fuel and aircraft efficiency, TFP model. Load factor vs. spill factor analyses, passenger spill measures. Airline business models: traditional vs. low cost airlines, elements of airline operations. Fleet planning process, operating, economic, financial/economic, marketing/ commercial and negotiation factors of fleet selection process. Crew scheduling and its regulation, fuel management and fuel efficiency, purchase of fuel and calculation for the flight. Air travel demand characteristics, demand variability, mathematical approximation of air travel demand parameters. Air travel forecasting, demand forecasting methods. Revenue management models, EMSRa and EMSRb model. Organizational structure of airlines. Development strategies PASTE and SWOT analysis. Route profitability models, airline network management, network strategy elements, key performance indicators based on route profitability. Commercial agreements among air carriers, airline alliances. Aviation market analyses, types of competition, Croatian aviation market.
Lecture languages: hr
Compulsory literature:
1. Tatalović, M., Mišetić, I., Bajić, J.: Planiranje zračnog prijevoza, Fakultet prometnih znanosti, Zagreb, 2017.
2. Tatalović, M.: Autorizirana predavanja (sustav za e-učenje Merlin)
3. Škurla Babić, R.: Autorizirana predavanja (sustav za e-učenje Merlin)
4. Ozmec-Ban, M.: Autorizirana predavanja (sustav za e-učenje Merlin)
Recommended literature:
5. Abdelghany, A., Abdelghany, K.: Modeling Applications in the Airline Industry, Ashgate Publishing Company, Aldershot, 2010.
6. Bazargan, M.: Airline Operations and Scheduling, Ashgate Publishing Company, Aldershot, 2012.
7. Belobaba, P. P., Odoni, A., Barnhart, C.: The Global Airline Industry, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.
8. Clark, P.: Bying the Big Jets, Ashgate Publishing Company, Aldershot, 2007.
9. Doganis, R.: The Airline Business, Routledge, London, 2007.
10. Rapajić, J.: Beyond Airline Disruptions, Ashgate Publishing Company, Farnham, 2009.
11. Talluri, K. T., Van Ryzin, G. J.: The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management, Springer, New York, USA, 2005.
12. Tatalović, M., Mišetić, I., Bajić, J.: Menadžment zrakoplovne kompanije, MATE d.o.o., Zagreb, 2012.
Legend
L - Lectures
E - Exercises
LE - Laboratory exercises
S - Seminar
FLE - Practical foreign language exercises
PEE - Physical education excercises
* - Not graded