Airway business and flight operation control center's strategic & economic impacts : A study case

Today, along with globalization, there emerged the obligation as well as necessity to comply with the technological developments. Rapidly progressive technology brings about fast communication, immediate transnational exchange of information, and hence globalized way of life. In this context, to help the travel across the world, the technology of aircraft and flight was developed. This technology has become a medium to meet the commercial, recreational or obligatory needs of people. How has airline transportation improved since its birth? What is the history of its improvement like? First part of this study deals with major departments of an airway business company, and international civil aviation organizations. Second part analizes the management of aviation organizations, their role in the marketing strategies of the organization, low cost practices, and finally flight operation control centers and their impact on aviation organizations. Third part of this study concentrates on the results of a group work which was run in the flight operation control center, and discusses the effects of the Flight Operation Control Center (FOCC)-the brain of an aviation organization- and Flight Dispatcher on an aviation enterprises. Keywords: Aviation, FOCC, Flight Dispatcher