Welcome to the exciting world of airline and airport operations Airline and Airport Operations enhances the importance of the air transportation industry. In a rapidly changing environment, airlines and airports have to adapt to economic, technological, and market changes in addition to airline deregulation and other market trends. This book explains many factors which present the significant effects on the way airlines and airports do business, not only from a financial perspective but also from an operational standpoint. In these challenging times, with emerging competition from other airlines and airports, as well as other modes of transportation, it is of the utmost importance that airlines and airports provide their personnel with the best available knowledge and skills explained in this book. Besides, it was written to provide the readers with a solid overview of the airline and airport operations field and with tools to apply the knowledge and skills to the industry. Most importantly, this book is useful for helping airline managers and airport authorities to make better decisions to survive in this competitive industry.