The effect of air cargo managers' decision-making strategies on crisis management in crisis periods

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, the aviation industry experienced an unprecedented crisis and shut down globally for the first time in history. However, the fact that the masks and medical supplies produced all over the world in order to minimize the effects of the Corona Virus - Covid 19 epidemic disease, which quickly affected the whole world and to protect people from the disease, were loaded and transported on passenger planes, including the seats, due to the insufficiency of cargo planes in international shipments, proved to the whole world how important air transportation is. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between decision-making strategies of managers in air cargo businesses and crisis management of the organization. The long-term crisis experienced by an air cargo transportation organization in Turkey within the scope of flight operations and the impact of the solution strategies produced in line with the decisions of the managers on the crisis were analyzed in detail and sampling was carried out. According to the results obtained from the research, the relationship between decision-making strategy and crisis management was revealed.