Course: Business-haulage Activity in Air Transportation

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Course title Business-haulage Activity in Air Transportation
Course code KDMML/AOPCP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
Course content
ICAO. IATA. Reference manuals, handbooks and publications in business-haulage sector of public transport. Flight schedules, their creation and factor analysis. Sale and booking of schedule air transport - booking modes, booking status, cancel of booking. Detailed condition of carriage. Admission of a customer to carriage. Mutual approval of transport documents agreements. International flight ticket - describe, issuance. MCO payment order. Changes of flight tickets. Endorsement. Document loss. Modes of payment in passenger transport. Subscription travel costs report - PTA. Rates - types, discounts. Baggage transport. Baggage transport irregularity. Passenger transport under special conditions. Provided services - transit and transfer services. Operating flight documentation. Air freight transport. Modes of payment in air freight transport. Air waybill. Special types of freights. Air freight transport irregularity.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Methods of individual activities
Learning outcomes
Inform student with air company and its business activity.
After graduation this subject the student has fundamental image about function of process civil air transportation, is inform with fundamentals documents, regulations and contracts, which in sector of air transportation use, is inform with structure air company and its economic function. The student has too knowledge about distribution and sale air transport.
Prerequisites
Interest in problematic air transportation.

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination, Home assignment evaluation

The student must in course of semester and by final exam demonstrate understanding of this problematic and knowledge of process civil air transportation. The tutor will notify the concrete requirements to the students within the first week of the term.
Recommended literature
  • Prováděcí vyhláška č. 108 / 1997 Sb. k zákonu č. 49 / 1997 Sb..
  • Zákon o civilním letectví č. 49 / 1997 Sb..
  • JECHUMTÁL, J., HYXOVÁ, A. Obchodně přepravní činnost v letecké dopravě. Pardubice 2000..
  • ŽIHLA, Z. Provozování podniků letecké dopravy a letišť. Brno, 2010..


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Transport Engineering Study plan (Version): Transport Management, Marketing and Logistics (2013) Category: Transportation and communications 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter