MSc Airline & Airport Corporate Management

Strategic Aviation Management and Operations

By the end of the Module, students will be able to:

• Evaluate the strategic landscape and preparation for decisions using appropriate environmental scanning tools.
• Critically evaluate the overall benefits of enlightened strategic thinking in the context of a volatile world for air travel.
• Assess the sources of competitive advantage that link to airlines and airports success and strategic tools.

E-Commerce Strategy for Aviation

On completing the module students will be able to:

• Critically evaluate the commercial benefits of e-commerce and its transformative potential through an assessment of e-commerce, e-sales and, e-distribution.
• Critically analyse the brand benefits of e-commerce and the digital revolution in the wider context of airlines, airports, and consumer relations.

Aviation Finance and Forecasting

On completing the module students will be able to:

• Critically appraise a variety of financial strategies airlines and airports can use to manage their financial exposure to operational aspects of the business.
• Analyse complex data and evidence pertaining to forecasting techniques and their importance to the aviation sector in relation to strategy and costs/profit.

Safety Management Systems in Aviation

By the end of the Module, students will be able to:

• Evaluate the structure, importance and challenges of implementing safety management systems in aviation
• Assess the impact of safety culture on the safety performance of an organisation
• Apply aviation accident causation models to identify causes of accidents and also explore how they should be integrated with SMS to prevent accidents in the future

Sustainability in Global Companies

After successfully completing this module, students will be able to:

• Analyse complex data and theoretical concepts to demonstrate an understanding of the context of sustainability and related core theories to enable students to assess sustainability and evaluate its complex inter-relationships.
• Develop a systematic understanding and substantive investigation of sustainability, measurement and corporate governance in the 21st century, reviewing and analysing industry competitors using state-of-the-art published reports.

Leading and Developing People (Alternate core)

On successful completion of this module students will be able to:

• Critically evaluate the differences in business governance, leadership and management practices around the world
• Critically evaluate approaches to motivating and engaging managers and employees.
• Critically evaluate leadership research, theories and practices.
• Demonstrate reflective thinking about their own capabilities and skills in order to develop as a leader and manager.

International Logistics (Alternate core)

On successfully completing this module, students will be able to:

• Critically evaluate international logistical processes, including the role of the many intermediaries involved and their value added: analyse the on-going developments in international logistics at a global level, assessing its consequences for economic development, and the social effects associated with that expansion.
• Demonstrate a conceptual and practical understanding of the risks involved in international supply chains and the strategic decisions made by multinational enterprises in their sourcing and production plans, anticipating the consequences of development for future supply chain investments and trading plans and relations
• Understand the reasons behind out-sourcing and unbundling of production processes to remote locations; the costs and benefits this has brought to manufacturers and consumers as well as the workers involved both in developed and developing markets.
• Understand the development needs of a range of emerging markets, and be able to assess the appropriate forms of investment and trading activities that would best support those developments
• Be able to make suitable proposals both at the corporate, governmental and intergovernmental level, for actions further to facilitate beneficial changes for emerging markets’ logistics infrastructure

Business Consultancy Project-Portfolio Assessment (60 Credits)

On successfully completing this module, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate good judgment in the planning, selection, prioritisation and collection of evidence to investigate the chosen issue or topic via primary and/or secondary data
• Analyse and evaluate the findings of their research based on the primary and/or secondary data collected and in the light of the appropriate theoretical background and the constraints introduced by practical and real-life business issues.
• Communicate effectively the business project conclusions and recommendations including presentation of quantitative/qualitative data in appropriate format and a well-structured professional report
• Demonstrate personal accountability and integrity in their work, leading to achieving the status of a trusted business advisor
• Demonstrate the development of independent and self-managed learning