The book titled “ Aviation Management and Operation: Elements, Dimensions and Trends” provides readers with an introductory overview of aviation and hospitality industry. Focus lies on aircrew with highlights on pilots, flights engineers and air hostesses. Emphasis is also there on airline alliances, mergers and acquisitions. The focus also lies on flight instructor and trainer, ground instructor, aircraft maintenance engineer and technician. Emphasis is there on various aspects of pilot licensing and certification around the world. Efforts are made towards understanding major instruments, devices and indicator systems of aircraft. An attempt is made to describe airport and airline security, screening systems aircraft and flight safety instruments and security arrangements, aviation accidents and incidents and institutional mechanism for air safety.

Contents: Preface. 1. Aviation and hospitality industry: an introduction. 2. Introduction to aircrew: focus on pilots, flights engineers and air hostesses. 3. Airline alliances, mergers and acquisitions: an overview. 4. Flight instructor and trainer, ground instructor, aircraft maintenance engineer and technician: an overview. 5. Pilot licensing and certification around the world: case studies. 6. Major instruments, devices and indicator systems of aircraft: towards their knowledge and understanding. 7. Airport and airline security: highlighting the screening systems. 8. Aircraft and flight safety instruments and security arrangements. 9. Aviation accidents and incidents: institutional mechanism for air safety. Bibliography. Index.