Airline Tech Operations
Unit 1: Organization
Basic Organizations In Commercial Aviation:
1. Private Carriage: An agreement between two parties; the pilot and a small number of
passengers.
Service can be free or charge for hire
2. Common Carriage: willingness to deal with large numbers of people without the option
for refusal of services
a. Holding out to the public of willingness to (advertisements)
b. Perform carriage of all persons/goods
c. From place to place
d. For compensation or hire
Types of Flight Operations: Part 121 and 135
1. Part 135: OPERATING REQUIREMENTS: COMMUTER ANS ON DEMAND OPERATIONS
Subpart J—Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance and Alterations
2. Part 121 OPERATING REQUIREMENTS: DOMESTIC, FLAG, AND SUPPLEMENTAL
OPERATIONS subpart L-- Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance and Alterations
- Before service can begin, a commercial or air carrier operator must obtain the proper
certification and an air carrier must be categorized as Part 121 or 135. This will
determine which regulation will apply.
Part 121 includes: Domestic, Flag, and supplemental services (typical airline services)
Part 135: commuter and on demand flights (Net Jet and Flexjets)
Organization and Structure:
- Organizational charts show the different functions of an organization, how they are
structures and how each one relates to one another.
- Individual airlines structure their organization to reflect managements approach to how
they expect their business to work.
The Board of Directors: business leaders from a variety
of industries. The Chairman is elected by the Board to
provide sound leadership for the airline. Company
brand is defined here (LLC, domestic or international,
legacy, elite) and the role of the company in its industry
and world economy is defined here
The Chief Executive Officer: responsibility is to develop a
general strategy for implementing the vision defined by th
e board
The President: highest level of functioning management; job is to develop and oversee the actual
mechanisms for implementing the CEO strategy and direct implementation.
