Description: Overview of the global airline industry, focusing on recent industry performance, current issues and challenges for the future. Fundamentals of airline industry structure, airline economics, operations planning, safety, labor relations, airports and air traffic control, marketing, and competitive strategies, with an emphasis on the interrelationships among major industry stakeholders. Recent research findings of the MIT Global Airline Industry Program are showcased, including the impacts of congestion and delays, evolution of information technologies, changing human resource management practices, and competitive effects of new entrant airlines. Taught by faculty participants of the Global Airline Industry Program.
Course #: 15.054
Professor(s) who recently taught this course:
Peter Belobaba
John-Paul Clarke
Cynthia Barnhart
Arnold Barnett
Amedeo Odoni
John Hansman
Thomas Kochan