This study discusses the influence of locus of control, work motivation and information use on decision making of managers in the aviation industry in Nigeria. Stratified random sampling method was used to select 1238 managers from five aviation parastatals in Nigeria out of which 945 responded. The response rate achieved was 76.3 percent. The study found that locus of control, work motivation ...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the status of women's participation in full-time, non-engineering aviation baccalaureate programs in the United States. In addition, the involvement of women in academic aviation leadership positions (such as chair, dean, or director) was evaluated. Of 353 full-time aviation faculty members employed at 60 different aviation programs meeting the study'S c...

Facing with the enormous data scale of the civil aviation industry, the vital issue that enterprises must consider is how to manage and make use of data to play its value. In this study, the content of the governance of big data of civil aviation is analyzed and this paper put forward the specific governance of big data resources of civil aviation to provide relevant support of the governance o...

With deregulation of aviation industry movement and separating regulator from operator, a need has risen to treat airlines, airports, and air traffic controls as none-governmental entities that must operate in new standards and according to new measures. Governments as well as private sector had to learn new language. The new language is the market language using numbers, facts, financial indic...

1.1 The tragic events on 11 September 2001 in the United States had a direct, devastating and immediate impact on civil aviation. There are indications that the industry will recover from the crisis subsequent to 11 September in the not too distant future, although may be slower than originally expected. While acknowledging the impact of these events, the study will concentrate on the longer-te...

In this paper we describe a new approach for assessing the benefits of safety measures in the aviation industry. This approach spans from the identification of target safety levels for the aviation industry to the development of a model of the air transport system. The most contributory factors to direct and indirect costs of accidents/incidents are also considered in order to provide all the e...

Foreign object damage (FOD) is common risk for aviation industry since long time ago and it has contributed to many terrible incidents and fatalities. The cost of FOD cases every year is very high, which is around RM 1.2 billion. Therefore, a proper technique and strategy has to be taken by the designated organizations including airlines to further eliminate the FOD occurrences. It is not easy ...

In aviation, it is common to have several aircraft operating in similar conditions uneventfully, yet another aircraft, following suit, experiences an accident in the same conditions. With the same information available to crews of both aircraft, conditions can quickly change leading to an accident for one, while the other crews land safely. Should this situational ambiguity be the cause of the ...