so ya love this subject... it reminds me of my experience.. and it has always been my passion in wanting to know how the industry work. i always when receive brochures, air tickets.. etc. wonder how do those ppl come together to make the trip a successful one?? right now, i m studying into the factors... shiok.
lecture 1: travel and tour operator
lecture 2: tour planning and itinerary development
lecture 3: tour brochure & travle agency operations
lecutre 4: tour costing and pricing
today my tutorial teacher teach us how to read a tour receipt.. or dunno what is that thing call.. i tink is given to tour agency.. and from there you will koe the airline name.. departure time/date , arrival time/date, flight number, code city for example singapore is SIN. bangkok is BKK. we can also koe the elasped flying time and the something like daylight saving time. for example if we travel from singapore to vancouver, we can see the ticket will write SIN-VAN 2330/1745 +1 the plus one mean the additional day... if u travel on tue, means u will reach there on wed. a day in advance. and the time would mean the time of the destination.
we can also see the type of aircraft.. such as 747, 737, 777, 336, 300, from what i koe and a bit of experience, cos everytime before i board the plane i will see what is the type of aircraft. and i notice the model of aircraft. but i always forget the no. of seats in the corner and the centre row. but i koe starting from 7_ _ is boeing. and from 3_ _ is airbus.
and ya it also shows the type of class such as busineess, first and economy class. i still remember asking my mum what 'Q' stands for on my air ticket.. and she don koe the ans. but now i koe. it is a code to differenciate the class on baord the aircraft. First class code is ''F'' business class code is '' J'' or ''C'' and economy class is ''Q'' or ''Y'' or ''M'' and others...
it also tell us the no. of stops if the aircraft would make. if it has 0 stopover it is call non-stop flight. if it has more than 1 stop over a city it is call direct flight. so intresting. i have always like aeroplanes and wonder how they function ... as in the allocation of seats.. checking in and out...
how i wish i can study more into this kind of things; (aircraft) model number... design of seats in the cabin... how to serve customers on board, what an aircraft need to do before take-off and landing...