airline operations
Aviation company functions
Airline operations encompasses the daily activities that keep an airline running—scheduling flights, managing crews, handling aircraft maintenance, coordinating ground services, and responding to disruptions like weather or mechanical problems.
An operations center monitors all flights in real time: The storm forced operations to reroute dozens of flights.
The term covers both the planning systems and the people executing them.
- safety auditsFormal hazard evaluations
- baggage handlingProcessing travelers' checked items
- lost luggageBags separated from traveler
- red-eye flightLate-night air travel
- hub and spokeCentral node, branching connections
flight planning · preflight checklist · gate assignments · seat assignment · departure lounge · engine diagnostics · navigation systems · emergency procedures · weather monitoring · turnaround time · ground crew · passenger boarding · fuel management
- aviationaircraft, airports, flying, flight, airplane
- aviation trainingflight school, flight training, pilot training, ground school, flight instructor
airline operationsrail operations
Running train services
ground transportation · freight rail · ocean freight · sea freight · train services
airline operationscorporate headquarters
Firm's primary administrative location
airline, airlines, operations, operation, lines, airway, airways, airman, airmen