Fundamentals of Global Air Transport Geography

Fundamentals of Global Air Transport Geography details the geography of the global commercial air transport industry. The book aims to provide an understanding of these key areas at an introductory level, in order to be accessible to students and non-technical airport/airline management.

George Arbuckle is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader at the University of West London. He has been teaching on Air Transport Management and Pilot Training programmes since 2010 and has worked in a range of management roles within the airline industry, including Inflight Product Manager with Monarch Airlines. He has a degree in Geography from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, an MSc in Air Transport from Cranfield University and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Member of the American Association of Geographers. His first airline responsibility was in 1997, checking in a flight from London Luton to Glasgow for a tiny airline called easyJet – at the time operating five aircraft!