Aviation Business Environment 1 (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Schedule

The contact sessions will take place on
Tuesday, 12:00-15:45 Room 2621 Porvoo Campus (Alexandre Kostov)

Tue 10.3 – Air transport essentials - General and Historical Overview

Tue 16.3 – Global Air Transport - Stakeholders: Airports, ATC, Manufacturers

Tue 24.3 – Major International Travel & Tourism and Air Transport Organizations and Partners

Tue 31.3 – Geography in Travel Planning.
Industry Coding. Encoding and Decoding City/Airport/Airline Names

Tue 7.4 - Anatomy of a Journey

Tue 14.4 – RC at 10:00 + 12:00 Sample of semester test

Tue 21.4 – Feedback and correction of the test

Tue 28.4 – Revision for exam

Tue 5.5 - exam

Tue 12.5 – re-exam

Tue 19.5 - feedback

The exact time-tables and classrooms for each week will be adjusted in Moodle semester calendar continuously. Students are advised to consult their instructors if in doubt.

Please note that while instructors intend to make use of all contact hours, certain contact hours can be reserved for self-guided learning. Additionally, the students are welcome to book appointments whenever possible (face to face or otherwise)

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

All competences are implemented in learning activities jointly with other modules. The methods used in the learning activities are for example.:

Inquiry learning
Peer-to-peer learning
Tutorials
Debates
Study tours and company visits
Lectures and workshops
Independent study and teamwork
The assessment of one’s own learning

Materials

LEARNING MATERIALS
Books on the content topics
E-books and online articles
Online tutorials
Companies’ web-portals
Industry related reports and statistics
Relevant media, news agencies, quality press, etc.
Social networking tools
Exercises, tests
Instructors’ own materials, materials produced by students.

Text books and Further Reading:
Airline E-Commerce: Log On. Take Off. Michael Hanke Routledge, 20 May 2016
Flying Off Course ,Rigas Doganis, Routledge (4th Ed.), 2010
The Airline Business in the 21st Century, Rigas Doganis, Routledge, 2001.
Air Transport Management: An international perspective 1st Edition, Lucy Budd , Stephen Ison Routledge, 2017
Air Transportation, A Management Perspective, Seventh Edition, John G. Wensveen, Ashgate, 2011

Teaching methods and instruction

LEARNING METHODS
All competences are implemented in learning activities jointly with other modules. The methods used in the learning activities are e.g.:

Inquiry learning
Peer-to-peer learning
Tutorials
Debates
Study tours and company visits
Lectures and workshops
Independent study and teamwork
The assessment of one’s own learning

Working life connections

CONNECTIONS TO BUSINESS LIFE
Company visits, guest lecturers and workshops in cooperation with different companies and organisations.

Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

Tue 5.5. 2020 - exam

Tue 12.5.2020 – re-exam

Re-examination will take place according to HH guidelines.

Internationality

INTERNATIONALITY
Possibility to work with international teams and instructors. Guest lecturers from international organisations and partner universities. International learning materials.

Learning assignments

Students will perform a number of assignments for the module.

Assignment 1 Itinerary analysis: study trip - 10% (in teams of 5-6 people) presentations of itinerary cases
Assignment 2 Company report/presentation: study trip - 5% (in teams of 5-6 people) short report, presentations of companies
Assignment 3 Study trip: project plan/presentation - 5% One long report (indicate the contributions of individual students)
Assignment 4 Study trip: final report/presentation -10% One long report (indicate the contributions of individual students)

The nature, scope, and sequence of the assignments proposed above could allow for variation, if necessary. More instructions will be given during the module.

Assessment methods

ASSESSMENT
The assessment methods are defined in the implementation plans. The assessment methods may include:

Individual assignments
Final deliverables
Exams
Peer assessment