Airline Systems Study
Terms
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- FAA
- The Federal Aviation Administration
- IATA
- International Air Transport Association -international organization to facilitate the movement of persons and goods to and from any point on the world air network by any combination of routes
- ICAO
- International Civil Aviation Organization -Agency of United Nations that ensures safe, orderly development of global air travel
- NTA
- National Transportation Agency
- Bilateral Agreement
- An agreement between two countries that often deals with the number of flights permitted from each country into a specific airport, the size and capacity of the airplanes and special fares.
- Freedoms of the Air
- Global rules regulating aircraft and airline activity and addressing the rights of passage for an airplane, traffic rights, and the granting of special rights to certain airlines under specific circumstances, also known as the rights of the air.
- Hub and Spoke
- A pattern of transportation in which an airline uses one airport as the collecting point for incoming and outgoing flights. This system is also used in the motor coach industry.
- Landing Fee
- Fee charged by an airport to an airline for the right to land and use airport services.
- Open Skies Agreement
- Bilateral agreement between the United States and Canada for the North American airlines, which provides tourists with a greater choice of carrier and types of flights.
- Scheduled Air Service
- Airlines that operate on defined routes at specific times, whether domestic or international, for which licences have been granted by the government or governments concerned.
- Charter Air Service
- A bus, plane or ship rented for the purpose of transporting people from one location to another, usually at rates lower than regularly scheduled rates.
- Connecting Flight
- A flight that requires passengers to change aircraft to get to their destination
- Destination
- The place that the traveller is going to. A city, area or country or the final stopping place as shown on the ticket.
- Direct Flight
- A flight with one or more intermediate stops between origin and destination, but with no change of the aircraft
- Equipment
- Aircraft is referred to as this
- Intermediate Point
- A stop on a direct flight where a passenger does not get off the plane or change planes. also referred to as en route stop.
- Non-stop Flight
- A flight that travels from one point to another without a stop enroute
- Origin City
- The city where travel begins
- Bulkhead
- A dividing wall in an aircraft
- Booking Code
- A one letter code assigned to a specific fare type used when booking to indicate the cabin and the price being reserved
- Confirmed Reserved Space
- the confirmation of a reservation on a specific flight for a specific date at a specific time
- Bumping
- Term used when a passenger is denied boarding on a flight which a confirmed reservation is held. It is a breach of the carriers contract with the passenger and can render the carrier liable for damages to the passenger
- Overbooking
- The acceptance of reservations by the carrier for more seats than available, a practice used to compensate for 'no show' passengers. In the case where the number of passengers exceeds the available space on a flight, the carrier is legally liable for damages and/or for denied boarding compensation to those passengers who cannot be accommodated on the flight or on comparable air transportation
- Denied Boarding Compensation
- Compensation paid to a passenger holding confirmed reserved space and who arrives to the airport at the appropriate time and place but is denied boarding. the passenger must have complied fully with carriers requirementds for ticketing, check-in reconfirmation procedures.
- No-show
- A passenger who makes a flight reservation who then fails to use or cancel the reservation
- Airbus
- A -Air Canada uses a lot -A320 Series are narrow bodied -A330 are widebodied -A380 are 2 stories, new in 2007
- Bowing
- 700 series -American Manufacturer -737 passenger and cargo -narrow bodied -West Jet uses 737 with only 1 class usually -787 Dreamliner avaliable in 2009
- Bombardier
- Q400 series -Porter uses this -Q stands for quiet
- CRJ
- Air canada Jazz uses this -used to transport cargo -carries about 50 people
- Embraer
- E -Narrow bodied plane -flies farther than CRJ's
- Turboprop
- or bowing -used by First Air -flies to northern Ontario -very small plane
- Bearskin
- -fly very small plane with one isle and single rows of seats