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Understanding Decision-making Processes in Airline Operations Control


Understanding Decision-making Processes in Airline Operations Control

Hardback by Bruce, Peter J.

Understanding Decision-making Processes in Airline Operations Control

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ISBN:
9781409411482
Publication Date:
26 Oct 2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
208 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 26 Apr - 1 May 2024
Understanding Decision-making Processes in Airline Operations Control

Description

Previous studies conducted within the aviation industry have examined a multitude of crucial aspects such as policy, airline service quality, and revenue management. An extensive body of literature has also recognised the importance of decision-making in aviation, with the focus predominantly on pilots and air traffic controllers. Understanding Decision-Making Processes in Airline Operations Control focuses instead on an area largely overlooked: an airline's Operations Control Centre (OCC). This serves as the nerve centre of the airline and is responsible for decision-making with respect to operational control of an airline's daily schedules. The environment within an OCC is extremely intense and a key role of controllers is to make decisions that facilitate the airline's recovery from frequent, highly complex, and often multiple disruptions. As such, decision-making in this domain is critical to minimise the operational, commercial and financial impact resulting from disruptions. The book examines many aspects of individual decision-making in airline operations, and addresses the deficiencies found by presenting to the reader an examination of the relationships among situation awareness, information completeness, experience, expertise, decision considerations and decision alternatives in OCCs. The text utilises a multiple case study approach and proposes a number of relevant and important implications for OCC management. Practical outcomes highlight the need for enhancing training programs enabling existing controllers to readily identify and classify elements of situation awareness and decision considerations as a means of improving the decision-making process. They also draw attention to the need for airline OCCs to understand the extent to which industry experience and expertise of controllers is important in the selection of future staff.

Contents

Contents: Preface; Part I Background and Underlying Theory: Introduction; Decision-making; Decision-making styles; Situation awareness; Expertise. Part II Examining Decision-Making Processes of OCC Controllers: Designing the study; The international simulations; The domestic simulations; Conclusions and implications for OCCs; References; Appendices; Index.

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