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    Fffffff

    DIFFERENT TYPES OF AIRCRAFT ENGINE AIR INLET Air intake (inlet) — For subsonic aircraft, the inlet is a duct which is required to ensure smooth airflow into the engine despite air approaching the inlet from directions other than straight ahead. This occurs on the ground from cross winds and in flight with aircraft pitch and yaw motions. The duct length is minimized to reduce drag and weight.[1] Air enters the compressor at about half the speed of sound so at flight speeds lower than this the

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    The Imapact of General Aviation

    instructing is most likely the most underrated and underpaid job in the aviation industry. Without this job, all pilots would have to come from the military, which would cause a severe shortage of pilots. Pipeline patrol requires pilots to fly aircraft at very low altitudes over varying terrain to observe pipelines and check for any problems or vandalism within the lines. Another type of this job is for pilots to patrol the U.S. borders in search for illegal activities. Without either of these

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    English Essay (Afraid of Flying)

    died in flight, while 46,000 have died in car accidents, so you can quickly get a picture in your head that airplanes are much safer than the car. The weird thing about the newspapers and the public media today is that you only hear if there is an aircraft crashing, never to be heard in car crashes or similar. It is perhaps also why many people develop a look inside that flying is much more dangerous than driving a

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    Easy Jet

    particularly successful because it had tight reign on costs and overheads. It could make savings where other airlines could not. For example: i) Easyjet maximised the utilization of assets - with faster turnaround on flights ii) it only flew its aircraft point to point, with no connecting flights - thus it did not incur the costly ticketing procedures associated with flight connections iii) it had no ticketing (paperless office) - customers used e-mail reference numbers to board flights. All these

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    Airline Operations Control

    control manager, teams make every effort to have airline operations running with as less problems as possible. The specialized teams, which may include among others such as aircraft maintenance, crew scheduling and aircraft scheduling, monitor the schedule execution and try to solve all the problems related with crew members, aircraft and passengers. However, some problems may arise and disrupt the planned schedule. Nevertheless, there is a process fallowed to solve such problems that’s known as Disruption

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    Economic Advantages of Proactive Maintainance

    Economic advantages of proactive over reactive aircraft maintenance Name Course Institution Instructor Date Economic advantages of proactive over reactive aircraft maintenance The term proactive, in general terms, refers to exhibiting anticipatory or self-initiatory characteristics or behavior. Proactive maintenance in mechanical terms refers to taking steps in order to solve a problem of equipment malfunction before it becomes a bigger issue

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    Jetblue

    Case Study: JetBlue: Bringing Humanity Back to Air Travel? Chapter 2: pages 84-87 1. Valentine’s Day in 2007 was a “customer disaster” day for JetBlue airlines. A snow storm hit the East Coast of the US and JetBlue decided not to cancel their flights ahead of time like the other airlines and stayed on schedule. The storm didn’t end up calming down and ten JetBlue planes full of passengers were unable to take off, leaving passengers and the flight crew stranded. Some planes sat for more

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    Airlines

    What are the challenges associated with managing in a business with high fixed costs like airlines? One of the challenges associated with managing in a business with high fixed costs, like airlines, is how to generate enough revenue during the peak season to reduce the effect of losses during off-peak seasons.  Airlines must generate enough seasonal revenue during heavy travel periods, predominantly the summer months, to offset losses experienced during other seasons when profits from travel are

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    Air Charter Business Proposal

    Air Charter Business Proposal i Air Charter Business Proposal from an Information Technology Perspective. Steven R. Marcum, Steven Cross and Jeffery Prendergrast Introduction to Management Information Systems MGMT 221 Professor Ira Strauss January 15, 2011 Air Charter Business Proposal ii Abstract The objective of this project is to develop a business proposal for an air charter company that caters to the tourism trade from an information technology standpoint operating

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    Harvard Business School 9-192-040 Rev. June 22, 1993 Accounting for Frequent Fliers By 1991, almost all U.S. airline companies offered frequent flier programs to their passengers. Under these programs, passengers could become members of a program where the miles they flew would be recorded and accumulated to earn free future flights. The proliferation and growth of frequent flier programs created concerns about the proper way to account for and report them in financial reports. The airlines, the

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