Introduction
The perspectives of the UK airline industry and airline carriers are far going in the contemporary development of the world’s relationships provided by the Government of the country. In this respect, the factor of operation standards as for control and supervision are significant for further growth of the airline sphere of the national economic stability and improvements. The growth of the airline segment of the economics shows in recent years the constant tendency toward facilitation of the branch coloring and shaping in technical and service evaluation. The paper observes the featuring of this very segment of economic stability in the UK in terms of the prior objective and activities of operation control and supervision.
Body
First of all, it is vital to mention that the airlines in the UK have a very broadened and well-equipped technical and material base. The main contributor to this is the government and its initiatives to provide low-cost routes all over the country and abroad (Griffiths & Wall, 2007). Second, the airline infrastructure tends to concentrate more attention on the terms of control and supervision in the strategic urge for the provision of high-level services in the domain of the airline industry within British airline companies.
Security in air space of the British air routes is regulated based on Aviation Security Act 1982 TRANSEC (Transport Committee & Dunwoody, 2005). In this respect, the issue of safety before during, and after the flight is of great significance for all airlines which are concentrated under the law of the UK. The British government keeps a strict eye on the airline carriers. The supervision is maintained by the operation control manager. This is why one of the objectives is to develop proper professional relationships in the managerial team of this range. Moreover, such standardization of laws as for the regulations and supervision of the flights of different distances presupposes the compliance and relation to the international airline authority, namely the International Airline Transportation Association. According to this very association, the UK signed under the requirements for the major airline carriers to participate also with the governmental structures in accordance with so-called six-point safety plan:
- Infrastructure safety;
- Safety data management and analysis;
- Flying operations;
- Integrated airline management systems;
- Cargo safety;
- Safety auditing (IATA, 2007, p. 6).
Thus, the question of the security and safety within the objects for which the airline services are responsible provides the major background for the primary objectives and activities of the airline carriers. The interpersonal relationships maintained in the personnel of the airline companies in the United Kingdom are to be correlated by the HRM: “Individualism in HRM style might be expressed by management through genuine recognition of the highly technical, safety-critical and fundamental role of pilots within airline operations” (Harvey, 2008). On the other hand, in terms of the privatization of the British Airports Authority, the government still has some controversies as to making more facilities for better control and supervision (Hanlon, 1999).
Conclusion
To sum up, the UK airline industry is a well-shaped and greatly-equipped branch of the British economy. In its domain, the issues of operation control and supervision are subordinate to the law acts and norms prescribed and adopted by the Parliament and executed by the government. The operation control and supervision have the major objective, i.e. “the development of a coherent and coordinated air traffic control system” (Europa Publications Limited 760). Safety and security remain the major objectives for airline carriers.
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