Hello
rsoman For your information, there are 27 students made up of 18 different nationalities on the current course. Recognise your name....think I asked you some questions about the course one year ago when I was still searching!
I understand you have a few questions regarding the Air Transport MSc....I am currently on the course, so please just ask!
The course is excellent, you will learn a lot about the industry from all aspects, it can be quite challenging at times, the usual stuff really. Most of the lecturers know a hell of a lot, and the industry contacts which we have are pretty impressive....many senior airline staff/consultants/airport managers/a highly amusing and very knowledgable Chief Boeing Economist guy etc come and see us, our past group director went off to become the CEO for Olympic Airways (you heard of Rigas Doganis?), now the current CEO of Olympic Airways is actually one of the part time MSc students which is quite funny.
The last piece of assessment for the taught part of the course is a group project in which we start up an airline (in groups of 9 people) and we gave our final presentations today. From now on, it is full-time thesis work (like most other MSc's).
You will do a number of core modules in the first term, plus core and elective modules in the second term.....I took Airline Marketing and Airline Safety Management/Air Crash Investigation....both really interesting. We get to take part in a mock air crash investigation sometime next month on the airfield (I think they try and plough one of the Jetstream 31 aircraft into the ground ...should be fun)...
Regarding which university to study at...up to you really. I know someone who has been on the Air Transport course at City University and they thought it was great. I cannot be certain, but the content appears to be in-line with what we are taught here at Cranfield. Also, I think the average age of City Uni Air Tran students is a bit higher than it is here (about 1/2 of us are fresh from undergraduate degrees). What can be said is that both courses are well known throughout the industry...
There you go....now your turn to ask questions!
Regards
Jason
oh, and for your interested minds, don't know if you have seen the recent video of the launch of Independance air (flyi.com) over in the US....particularly 'interesting'
The link is
http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=22781
Make sure you have sound if you watch this video....makes it all the more funnier. Must say though, how will they make money? There seems to be a number of fundamental 'differences' in the way in which they operate....one example is that they appear to be offering a 'maximum fare' for any particular route...Revenue Management ???? Looks like an interesting company none the less...