Aviation Industry Career Paths Insights Mini-Workshop Training (Part 1) Day 2

🙋Aloha Air Travel Career Enthusiasts!

Welcome to Day 2 of our Aviation Career Paths Insights Mini-Workshop Training.

📍For day 2;
We are taking a peek into the Aviation industry bearing it in mind that aviation is synonymous to air transportation.

📍Question:
WHAT IS AVIATION INDUSTRY

🎯Answer:
The aviation industry includes all aviation related businesses. Aviation industry is the business sector dedicated to researching, designing, developing, manufacturing, operating and use of all types of aircraft, and its repairs and maintenance.

The industry encompasses almost all aspects of air travel and the activities that help to facilitate it. With this in mind, the aviation industry can be described as a holding industry for all industries that support aviation activities.

This means the aviation industry includes the entire airline industry, aircraft manufacturing, research companies, travel industry, GDS segments, Catering segments and much more

CATEGORIZATION OF THE AVIATION INDUSTRY

1. Military Aviation which has to do with everything military activity by which air transportation equipment is a means of conveyance ranging from surveillance, to aerial combats, transporting soldiers, airlifting cargo (equipment, food, medical supplies, etc), evacuation operations etc. Aircrafts designed, developed and produced strictly to specification for military activities and purposes such as fighter jets, bombers, trainer jets, reconnaissance aircraft, transport helicopters are used in military aviation.

2. Civil Aviation has to do with air transportation strictly for private, commercial or public service purposes. It is the use of aircrafts for non-military activity or purpose. Civil aviation has 2 sectors; General Aviation and Commercial Aviation (Scheduled air transport) which are regarded as two out of the three main pillars of the industry.

SECTORS OF THE AVIATION INDUSTRY

1. General Aviation
2. Commercial Aviation
3. Military Aviation

MILITARY AVIATION

Military aviation is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines for the purposes of conducting or enabling aerial warfare. This includes air cargo that can provide logistics supplies to stationed soldiers. Some operations that military aviation engage in are:

• Aerial combat
• Cargo transportation
• Reconnaissance missions (intel gathering)
• Training military pilots and other personnel

The divide between military aviation and the other main sectors of aviation is clearer. Normally, regular civilians don’t operate military aircrafts. The only real overlap is the military aviation club.

GENERAL AVIATION

General aviation essentially refers to individuals, businesses or public services that operate their own aircraft for either personal transport, public service transport or business transport that need more flexible transportation service than the airlines can offer hence does not use an airlines’ services. Activities general aviation engage in could include:

• Emergency evacuations
• Medical transportation
• Search and rescue
• Medical goods and/or humanitarian aid supplies transportation
• Airborne law enforcement patrols
• Forest fires fighting (Aerial firefighting)
• Agricultural crops spraying (agricultural aviation)
• A businessman or employees of a business flying own small airplane or jet to see clients in another city or part of the town (business aviation)
• An individual or group of individuals or friends flying to another city or part of the town for leisure and recreational purpose (private aviation/pleasure flights)

Commercial aviation and general aviation do overlap. Business aviation for instance is somewhere between commercial air transport (charter operations/taxi/air ambulance operations) and general aviation (corporate operations).

COMMERCIAL AVIATION

Commercial aviation covers airline operations. The commercial aviation sector involves operating aircraft for hire and remuneration to transport passengers along with their luggage or multiple loads of cargo from point A to point. In addition, cargo freight transportation by air is considered commercial aviation.

Commercial aviation is what allows a person to travel on a scheduled flight to visit people in another state or take a vacation however, if you’re flying personally without hiring pilots or renting an aircraft, it is considered general aviation.

The term ‘aviation’ is most commonly used to describe mechanical air transportation, which is carried out using an aircraft. The two main types of aircraft are airplanes and helicopters.

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