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Air Transport Operation and Economics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-3613/01
Abbreviation ELD
Course title Air Transport Operation and Economics
Credits 3
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivana Olivková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. General characteristics of transport.
2. Position and role of transport in the national economy .
3. Transport systém.
4. Status and role of individual transport disciplines.
5. Air transport in the Czech Republic.
6. International Civil Aviation Organisation.
7. Fundamental elements of the air transport systém.
8. Types of air transport and breakdown of airlines.
9. Fundamental transport documents in air passenger transport.
10. Conditions of carriage in air transport.
11. Air transport process-passenger transport.
12. Fundamental transport documents in the carriage of goods by air.
13. Air transport process-transport of goods.

Literature

Průša, J. a kol.: Svět letecké dopravy. II. vydání. Galileo Training, s.r.o., 2015. ISBN 978-80-260-8309-2.
Žihla, Z. a kol.: Provozování podniků letecké dopravy a letišť. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s.r.o. Brno. 2010. 301 s. ISBN: 978-80-7204-677-5.
Bína L., Bínová H., Ploch J., Žihla Z.: Provozování letecké dopravy a logistika. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s.r.o., 2014. ISBN 978-80-7402-855-7.
COOK, Gerald N. a BILLIG, Bruce G. Airline operations and management: a management textbook. Second edition. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. ISBN 978-1-03-226872-9.

Advised literature

ČERVINKA, Michal. Provozování letišť. Online. Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2017 dotisk. ISBN 978-80-248-4115-1 . Dostupné z: https://dspace.vsb.cz/handle/10084/151918.
KAZDA, Antonín a CAVES, Robert E. Airport design and operation. Third edition. Bingley: Emerald, 2015. ISBN 978-1-78441-870-0.
BUDD, Lucy a ISON, Stephen (ed.). Air transport management: an international perspective. Second edition. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2020]. ISBN 978-0-367-28056-7.