sounds really interesting Luke, glad you’re enjoying it!
I’m a week and a half into my 2nd year at Loughborough University doing Air Transport Management BSc. Unlike other courses, the modules arent so specific or ‘practical’ like Meteorology and Ticketing and they are much more management based. My modules are:
Transport Planning
Economics of Transport
Business Strategy and Policy for Transport (sounds boring, but is really interesting) I bought a £40 book for the module today, which will sure be an entertaining light read of around 1100 pages (but dont let that put anyone off doing the course – i certainly wont be reading it all, lol)
Project Appraisal (plain boring and too much maths, imo)
Management Science (scary way of saying Operations Research, made entertaining by a funny lecturer)
Transport Risk and Safety
On the whole, it is really great fun.
Heading off to NEMA tommorow (again 😀 ) with a couple of friends to catch the An-225.
I had a principles of flight type module last year, and I believe that ‘airline marketing and management’ comes in semester 2.
Throughout last year i attended talks from a BA long haul pilot (through the Uni’s flying club), a BAe test pilot (was first person to fly the Hawk), and an RAF Harrier pilot who had had some time in Afghanistan (but that talk was through another Uni department). Ive also got up close to the ‘EAP’ aircraft which is sitting in aero department (was a one off BAE experimental aircraft, precursor to the Eurofighter Typhoon programme).
In other words, University is a must-do, life experience.
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