Diploma in Air Travel (IATA)
Course overview
An average of 8 million people flies on a daily basis. With this huge demand, professionals in air travel are essential. Air travel is regulated by IATA, an international regulatory body. This course is aimed at building an internationally acceptable professional who understands the air travel industry in depth. The IATA accreditation gives our graduates a direct ticket to any international air travel organization.
The course covers:
- Air Ticketing and Air fares
- Marketing Principles
- Planning
- Geography
- Legal Aspect of Air travel
- Administration
Course Outline
Air fares and Ticketing paper I
- Basic mileage principle
- Global indicators’
- Lowest combination principle (LCP)
- Limitations of indirect travel
- Add-ons
- Journeys with surface sectors
- Open-jaws
- Hip exceptions
- Return journeys (round the world minimum checks)
- BSP application
- Rerouting/ reissuance
Travel knowledge paper II
- Geography in travel planning II
- Land transport –rail II
- Accommodation (other than hotels)
- Tour packages II
- Law and regulations II
- Selling skills II
- Water transport II
- Thomas cook
- Land transport (bus and coaches)
- Computerized Travel Operations (Galileo/Amadeus)
- Retrieving hotel bookings
- Booking of hotel rooms
- Timatic timetables
- Checking hotel availability
- Train timetable
- Decoding and encoding airlines codes and names
Requirements
Course Duration: 15 Months
Exam Body: IATA
Grade: D and Above