Transportation Summary

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Transportation Summary

• PRESENT DAY!

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AIRCRAFT

• Jet engines or propeller driven vehicles that fly
  through the air.
• Divided into two types
• Carrier commercial, carrying people or goods for
  profit
• General Aviation Non commercial, Recreational,
  private aircraft. 50 of all aircraft movement,
  though much less

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AIRCRAFT

• Airlines plan their routes for maximum efficiency
  in two ways
• Linear Straight back and forth flights
• Hub-and-spoke Home base airport with many
  smaller airports around.

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AIRCRAFT

• International aviation is more complicated than
  domestic aviation because governments must
  negotiate the use of other countrys airspace.
• Airlines need permission to fly over other
  countries, and if they dont get it before they
  fly international arguments could arise, or they
  could get shot down.

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AIRCRAFT

• Luckily, Air travel is so important to everyone
  that international agreements have been worked
  out to give everyone certain rights.
• We call these Freedoms of the Air (p132-133)

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AIRCRAFT

• These include ways in which people are allowed to
  pass through another nation, land in another
  nation, and depart from another nation.
• These dont give you the right to do whatever you
  want. Instead, they are a frame-work that clearly
  lays out what is acceptable and what is not.

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AIRCRAFT

• Freedom of the air recent example
• Canada V. United Arab Emirates from
• It was only last October that Baird, as
  transport minister, advised Harper not to concede
  any additional Canadian landing rights to the
  United Arab Emirates two national air carriers.
  This had long been the offset that the UAE sought
  as compensation for the Canadian Forces using
  Camp Mirage in Dubai as the major logistic
  staging base for our operations in Afghanistan.

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AIRCRAFT

• To his credit, Defence Minister Peter MacKay
  understood how vital Camp Mirage was to our
  military and he argued in favour of conceding the
  landing rights. Harper listened to Baird instead,
  and the rest is history.
• After 10 years of rent-free lodging, the UAE gave
  us 30 days to pack up Mirage and vacate Dubai. As
  a war of words heated up in the Canadian media,
  the UAE also invoked a visa requirement on all
  Canadian visitors.

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AIRCRAFT

• While the Canadian Forces have managed to work
  miracles in order to relocate to temporary
  regional facilities and to maintain the mission
  support in Kandahar, the Mirage debacle has cost
  Canada untold millions of dollars in additional
  costs and lost trade.
• Then theres the one about Bairds new job The
  Chronicle Herald, 23 May, 2011 Scott Taylor.

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AIRCRAFT

• The air travel industry in Canada has operated
  for a long time under a large crown corporation
  (Air Canada).
• The mid 90s were rough on air travel and most of
  Air Canada has been sold to private investors.

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AIRCRAFT

• Other smaller carriers, discount carriers, and
  regional carriers have been able to break into
  the market to provide competition.
• The industry is still highly regulated to ensure
  competition, as well as safety and efficiency.

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AIRCRAFT

• Air travelers can often buy reduced priced
  tickets if they are willing to accept various
  restrictions (lousy seats, must fly on a certain
  date, etc.)
• Many career opportunities exist from flight crew
  (flight deck crew, cabin crew) as well as ground
  crew (reservations, passenger services,
  maintenance) and satellite industries (public
  shuttles, management positions, air traffic
  controllers, engineers, etc.)

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SURFACE TRAVEL

• Consists of anything that travels on the ground.
  (railway industry, motorcoach industry, rental
  car industry, taxi cabs, limos, etc.)
• Is not concerned with private transportation,
  like the cars we all own.

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SURFACE TRAVEL

• Railways used to be the biggest deal, but were
  challenged by air-travel, private cars and busses
  in the first part of the 20th century.
• For a long time after that, Railways were mostly
  a novelty, or a method of transporting goods and
  freight.
• Currently staging a bit of a comeback.

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SURFACE TRAVEL

• Railways are much more important and widely used
  outside of North America.
• The Motor-coach (bus) industry first appeared in
  the early 20th century, and by the 1950s they
  were a common sight on highways all across North
  America

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SURFACE TRAVEL

• Motor Coach travel declined after WWII because of
  the wide-spread, private ownership of cars.
• Charters (trips hired by a group of travelers)
  and tours have become a major market for the
  Motor Coach industry.

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SURFACE TRAVEL

• Rental car businesses boomed after WWII and
  continues to be very important to the tourism
  industry today.
• Rental car industry is closely related to the
  rise in air travel, as air passengers need to
  drive around once they reach their destination.

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SURFACE TRAVEL

• This industry also includes mass transit like
  busses and commuter trains that transport locals
  about their lives and provide a cheap and
  reliable form of transportation for tourists.

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SURFACE TRAVEL

• Railway Industry Engineers and conductors,
  dispatchers. Career opportunities are limited.
• Motorcoach Industry Bus drivers (intercity and
  local transit) dispatchers, sales and marketing,
  tour guides/planners and management positions al
  throughout.

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SURFACE TRAVEL

• Rental Car Industry Sales, marketing, public
  relations, advertising, management, mechanics,
  detailing, customer service, etc
• Mass Transit Industry Taxis, Limos, busses,
  subways, monorails, dispatchers, clerical office
  work.

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MARINE TRAVEL

• Scheduled passenger service by ship was
  introduced in the early 19th century (1800-1899).
• A major steamship line was founded by Sir Samuel
  Cunard of Halifax.

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MARINE TRAVEL

• Mechanical improvements made larger more
  luxurious ships possible by the early 20th
  Century (1900-1999)
• The first half of the 20th century was a great
  age for ocean liners, despite high profile
  tragedies like the Titanic

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The Titanic sunk due to incompetence
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and the Lucitania
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MARINE TRAVEL

• The jet age signaled a decline in Ocean travel as
  it was no longer convenient jets could get you
  across the ocean much faster.
• The modern Cruise industry was then born in the
  early 1960s when the ship itself became the
  destination.

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MARINE TRAVEL

• A new generation of larger and more fabulously
  ridiculous cruise ships began to appear in the
  late 1990s.
• The industry could now provide a wider range of
  services, long or short cruises (a couple of days
  to a couple of months), special interest cruises
  (Disney), cruise/fly packages deals, etc.

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MARINE TRAVEL

• Large luxurious cruise lines travel through the
  Caribbean, Mediterranean, Mexican Riviera,
  Alaskan and Hawaiian areas to name a few.

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MARINE TRAVEL

• A cruise ship is basically a floating hotel
  offering passengers all the same services a hotel
  would, with even more in the way of activities
  and entertainment.
• The most desirable accommodations are on the
  outside with a view. Cheaper rooms are on the
  interior or lower to the water where the view is
  poor, or absent.

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MARINE TRAVEL

• Career opportunities
• On board Ships crew (responsible for the
  mechanical operation of the ship) and Hotel staff
  (responsible for attending to the guests)
• Ashore As always- sales and marketing,
  reservations, ticketing, accounting management,
  and every other office job you can think of.