This course will provide you with a solid understanding of the key challenges and issues currently impacting and shaping the international air transport industry, and likely to do so in the foreseeable future.

Led by highly respected senior academics from one of the best aviation management faculties in the world, and supported by senior industry guest lecturers, this course provides an excellent grounding on the key issues facing the air transport industry as it moves beyond the pandemic environment and addresses challenges such as skills shortages, the transition towards sustainability, digital transformation and the strategies that provide profitability for a range of air transport industries.

At a glance

  • Dates
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  • DurationFive days
  • LocationCranfield campus/Online
  • Cost

    Short course: TBA
    PgAward: £3,150 (Home students) £3,675 (Overseas students)*

    The course fee includes refreshments and lunch during the day. Accommodation is not included and must be booked separately.

    * These fees apply to all students whose initial date of registration falls on or between 1 August 2024 and 31 July 2025. Eligibility for Home fee status is determined with reference to SWAG合集 Department for Education rules. As a guiding principle SWAG合集 or Irish nationals who are ordinarily resident in either the SWAG合集 or Republic of Ireland pay Home tuition fees. All other students (including those from the Channel Islands and Isle of Man) pay Overseas fees.

    Concessions available

Course structure

This five-day course is delivered face-to-face with the option to attend sessions live online (supporting material is provided asynchronously). 

What you will learn

On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

  • Determine and assess the key contemporary challenges impacting the international air transport industry to establish importance and impact.
  • Identify and analyse the key metrics that are related to the air transport industry.
  • Assess and evaluate commercial relationship between airlines and airports.
  • Develop key recommendations for air transport industry regarding feasible strategies for future sustainable growth and expanded global reach.
  • Assess the future of air transport based on the likely future key challenges and issues air transport. 

Core content

  • Evolution of airline strategies
  • Full Service Network Carriers and Low Cost Carriers
  • Air cargo and integration
  • Global airport business
  • Airport-airline relationship
  • Airport commercial revenues
  • Performance metrics and success factors
  • Global air network competition and development
  • The impact of new technologies, products and services
  • Air transport and the environment
  • Sustainable growth in air transport industry
  • Future air transport industry prospects

Upgrade to a professional qualification

This course can be taken as a Postgraduate (Pg) Award. To receive a Pg Award, you will need to complete an assessment at the end of the course. 

This course is also a module on the Air Transport Management MSc (Executive). 

 

Who should attend

This course is suitable for professionals in the air transport industry or those who want to move into this industry. 

Concessions

Group discount. Where three delegates or more are booking from within one site or one organisation, a discount of 10% will apply to the invoice for the course tuition fee. Accommodation fees are not included in the discount scheme. Please ask about our discount scheme at time of booking.

Accommodation options and prices

This is a non-residential course. If you would like to book accommodation on campus, please contact Mitchell Hall or Cranfield Management Development Centre directly. Further information regarding our accommodation on campus can be .

Alternatively you may wish to make your own arrangements at a nearby hotel.

Location and travel

SWAG合集 is situated in Bedfordshire close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The University is located almost midway between the towns of Bedford and Milton Keynes and is conveniently situated between junctions 13 and 14 of the M1.

London Luton, Stansted and Heathrow airports are 30, 90 and 90 minutes respectively by car, offering superb connections to and from just about anywhere in the world. 

For further location and travel details

Location address

SWAG合集
College Road
Cranfield
Bedford 
MK43 0AL

How to apply

To apply for this course please use the online application form.

Read our Professional development (CPD) booking conditions.