Lesson 1: Introduction to the Aviation Industry (ctd.)

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The aviation industry usually deals with the following:

  
 
  1. Transport of passengers by air
  2. Transport of goods by air
  3. Linking with other modes of transport
  4. Operation of airports
  5. Operation of airlines
  6. Design and Production of aircraft
  7. Maintenance and overhaul of aircraft
  8. Design and Construction of airports
  9. Airport and airline business promotion
  10. Use of aircraft for purposes other than transport of passengers and goods.
  11. Industry regulation
  12. Training of personnel.
  
     
  Any person or organization doing one or more of the above would be a part of the aviation industry.  
     
  Just to get a better idea of the industry and its place in the world, just check out the following facts based on information for the year 2012.  
     
 

In the year 2012, aviation industry employed …

  1. 470,000 people in direct airport operations
  2. 2,272,000 people in airline operations
  3. 4,602,000 people in connected services (e.g. customs, immigration, taxi services, government agencies …)
  4. 195, 000 people in air navigation services
  5. 1,203,000 people in civil aerospace industry (e.g. aircraft design, engine manufacture, component manufacture ….).
  
     
 

In the year 2012, airline industry ….

  1. Carried 2.97 billion passengers
  2. Carried 49.2 million tonnes of freight
  3. Flew 37.4 million commercial flights
  4. Used 49,871 air routes globally
  5. Flew a cumulative distance of 5.4 trillion kilometers
  6. Flew for 45 million cumulative hours.
  
     
 

As at year 2012, Aviation Industry had …

  1. 1,397 commercial airlines
  2. A total of 41,821 air fields worldwide
  3. 3,864 airports handling scheduled commercial flights
  4. 173 air navigation service providers
  5. 25,332 commercial aircraft in service.
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Also, during the year 2012, aviation industry

  1. Burnt 273 billion liters of fuel
  2. Paid US$ 210 billion for it
  3. Emitted 688,739,000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide.
  
     
  The above facts and figures give us a good picture about the length and breadth of the aviation industry.  
     
  To have an idea of how much the other industries are dependent on the aviation industry, we could look at the supply chain of an Apple iPhone  (source: CANSO 2014 APAC conference ware)  
   
  This is only an example. Many other manufactures and services in the modern world requires people and things to be brought down to a single location from all over the world in a very short time. Without aviation it would be impossible to do so. Without aviation, the world would be completely different. <Top

 

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