Course detail
Commercial Transport
FSI-OBPAcad. year: 2018/2019
The subject provides students with an introduction to practical activities in commercial air operations. Students are familiarized with the activities of airlines in selecting suitable aircraft types, creating a network of airlines and providing technical aircraft handling. The subject also includes issues of air transport sales, acceptance of passengers for transportation, issuance and recognition of documents, methods of payment, tariffs in international passenger transport, discounts, luggage, passenger transport under special conditions, provided services, operational flight documentation, receipt of goods for carriage, carrier's liability, types of charges and charges in the carriage of goods, international goods transport documents, special types of cargo and booked goods, irregularities in the air transport of goods, and other aspects related to the commercial operation of the airline.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
The examination is of write and oral form and it is based on three questions and discusion.
Course curriculum
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Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Holloway, S.: Straight and Level - Practical Airline Economics, 2008, Ashgate (EN)
Pruša, J.: Svět letecké dopravy, Praha, 2007, Galileo CEE Service ČR (CS)
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Syllabus
2. Air transport licencing, agreenments
3. Air transport marketing
4. Revenue management
5. Flight schedules
6. Airlines
7. Aircraft used in the air transport
8. Transport of passengers
9. Documents for passenger transport
10. Tariffs for passenger transport
11. Transport of baggages
12. Cargo transport
13. Tariffs and documents for cargo transport
At least 60% attendance at the lectures is required. The form of the check is the attendance list. The exam is written, the student has to answer two selected questions. Part of the evaluation is also the quality of self-produced work.
Exercise
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Syllabus
The condition of granting the credit is the processing and presentation of the given topic.
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