Course Title: Airline Operations Management
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Airline Operations Management
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
AERO2178 |
China Airlines Ltd |
Postgraduate |
115H Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering |
Face-to-Face |
Offsh 1 07, Offsh 3 07, Offsh 3 08 |
AERO2240 |
Air Transport Training College |
Postgraduate |
115H Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering |
Distance / Correspondence |
Offsh 3 07, Offsh 2 08, Offsh 3 08 |
AERO2307 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
115H Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering |
Distance / Correspondence |
Sem 2 2008, Sem 2 2009, Sem 2 2012 |
AERO2307 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
115H Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering |
Distance / Correspondence or Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2006, Sem 2 2006, Sem 1 2007, Sem 1 2008, Sem 1 2009, Sem 1 2010, Sem 1 2012, Sem 1 2014 |
AERO2307 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
115H Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 2 2015, Sem 2 2016 |
AERO2307 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
172H School of Engineering |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 2 2021, Sem 2 2022, Sem 2 2023 |
AERO2307 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
172H School of Engineering |
Face-to-Face or Internet |
Sem 2 2017, Sem 2 2018, Sem 2 2019 |
Course Coordinator: Dr Iryna Heiets
Course Coordinator Phone: +61444508276
Course Coordinator Email: iryna.heiets@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: 057.03.16
Course Coordinator Availability: by appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
Course Description
The course aims to provide you with an understanding of the broad operational aspects of operating an airline, including airline operational strategies, airline fleet planning, airline economics and financing, flight scheduling, airline pricing and distribution, airline revenue management, and fuel conservation, and its economic impact. It will provide a comprehensive platform from which students can apply their learning in the real world of airline management both within the course and more importantly afterwards in the marketplace.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes:
Needs, Context and Systems
- Exposit legal, social, economic, ethical and environmental interests, values, requirements and expectations of key stakeholders
- Identify and assess risks (including OH&S) as well as the economic, social and environmental impacts of industry activities
Problem Solving and Design
- Anticipate the consequences of intended action or inaction and understand how the consequences are managed collectively by your organisation, project or team
- Develop and operate within a hazard and risk framework appropriate to industry activities
Analysis
- Apply underpinning natural, physical and engineering sciences, mathematics, statistics, computer and information sciences.
Professional Practice
- Communicate in a variety of different ways to collaborate with other people, including accurate listening, reading and comprehension, based on dialogue when appropriate, taking into account the knowledge, expectations, requirements, interests, terminology and language of the intended audience
Research
- Assess, acquire and apply the competencies and resources appropriate to industry activities
Upon successful completion of the course, you should be able to:
- Apply a broad understanding of the economics of airline passenger operations, including passenger pricing, and airline financing.
- Compare the fuel management strategies utilised by airlines.
- Relate the key elements of airline product planning and design to the commercial strategy of an airline.
- Identify and respond to customer requirements using customer research methods.
- Apply understanding of the key elements of airline fleet planning, airline flight scheduling, airline revenue management and product distribution.
- Produce a board level presentation of the proposed business and operational plan for a new airline company.
Overview of Learning Activities
You will learn this course through recorded lectures, directed reading, class room and online discussion, and investigative research. The learning process is reinforced through problem-based learning using case studies.
Overview of Learning Resources
Course-related resources will be provided on the “myRMIT” Canvas portal. These will include course notes, and other learning materials generated by the course lecturer(s), references, and approved links to useful material on external web-sites.
Overview of Assessment
This course has no hurdle requirements.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment task 1: Individual assignment
Weighting of final grade: 40%
Related course learning outcomes: 1, 2
Assessment task 2: Group research project
Weighting of final grade: 40%
Related course learning outcomes: 1, 3, 5
Assessment task 3: Group visual presentation
Weighting of final grade: 20%
Related course learning outcomes: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6