Program Content and Format
- Step 1: Select the stream in which you are interested.
- Step 2: Select your elective from the list of available courses (a course not in the list can be selected with the permission of the registration counsellor).
- Step 3: Fill out the registration form.
Choose to specialize in 1 Stream:
Required Courses (All Streams)
Fundamentals of the Air Transport System
This course is designed to provide a roadmap to the understanding of the air transport industry. It uses a multidisciplinary approach of analysis, combining economic and business principles, public policy, law and international relations, among others. A practitioner’s perspective is also provided to help you integrate theoretical concepts with real-life decisions of the various players in the air transport ecosystem. At the end of the course, you will be able to explain the key components of the sector as well as its economic and legal underpinnings. In addition, you will gain critical insights into the challenges and issues faced by airlines, airports, air navigation service providers and governments. This course should normally be taken first in the program.
Public Policy and Regulation for Civil Aviation
This course is about regulatory governance in civil aviation — how, and to what extent, governments exercise their formal legislative authority along with a broad range of other tools to encourage or compel certain business behaviors in the air transport sector. It will cover the main principles of public policy and policy making, the role and impact of stakeholders’ influence on policy making, how regulations are made, how policy arguments should be analyzed, and IATA’s Smarter Regulation Initiative. A practitioner’s perspective is also provided to help you integrate theoretical concepts with real-life government decisions. At the end of the course, you will be able to understand the complexity and pace of how governments make decisions that impact the business and operational environments of the main components of the civil aviation ecosystem as well as have a better appreciation for the level of aggregation of issues a regulator has to take into account.
Air Transport Economics
The course will introduce you to the fundamental concepts of economic analysis, with specific application to airline operations and the air transport industry. You will learn how these tools can be used to assess current and emerging industry trends and issues – including the role of regulation and state policy decisions. At the end of the course, you will be able to understand and explain key economic concepts as they relate to the air transport industry; the impact of public policy and regulatory frameworks on air transportation; analyze air transport issues using various economic frameworks and tools and learn how they can be applied in the workplace; and identify and assess the main long-term issues and challenges facing the industry.
1 required course for the stream of your choice
Airline Stream
Airline Business Foundations
Airport Stream
Airport Master Planning
Safety Stream
Safety Management Systems (SMS) for Airlines
Security Stream
Aviation Security Management
Environmental Stream
Aviation and the Environment
Choose 1 elective course (all streams)
- Advanced Safety Management Systems (SMS) in Civil Aviation (Safety Stream only)
- Air Cargo Management
- Airline Business Foundations
- Airline Financial Management (the virtual version will be available soon)
- Airline Safety Investigation
- Airport Master Planning
- Airport Security Operations Optimization (virtual classroom will be available soon)
- Airport Slot Management and Coordination
- Aviation and the Environment
- Aviation Cyber Security
- Aviation Law for Managers (non-lawyers)
- Aviation Security Management
- Carbon Markets and Aviation
- Design a Sustainability Strategy – Fundamentals
- Flight Data Analysis for Airlines
- Human Factors in Aviation
- Incident / Accident Prevention and Investigation
- International Negotiation Skills
- Network, Fleet and Schedule Planning
- Route Forecasting and Development
- Safety Management Systems (SMS) for Airlines
- Safety Risk Management
- Security Management System (SeMS)