Introduction to Aviation Operations Management

Sheikh Imran Ishrat has a teaching and research career spanning more than a decade. He has been teaching Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, and Industrial Engineering courses across Business and Engineering programs in New Zealand and Asia. Dr. Ishrat received his PhD in Engineering from Massey University (New Zealand), MEng in Engineering Management from University of Ottawa (Canada) and an MSc in Operations Research from Aligarh Muslim University (India). He has been supervising research projects, published articles, and presented his work in reputed international conferences including IFORS, IISE, IEEE, and APQO. Dr. Ishrat's research was placed in the Massey University's prestigious Dean's List of Exceptional Doctoral Thesis and received the Excellent Paper Presentation award in ICITM at University of Cambridge (UK).Zahid Akhtar Khan is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi, India. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering, specialization in Industrial Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He has been working in the area of optimization of manufacturing and service processes. He has supervised ten Doctoral Theses and many M. Tech. Dissertations so far and currently he is supervising several Doctoral Theses. He has published more than 200 research papers in reputed International/ National journals and conferences so far. His current Google Scholar Citations is 4,042, h-index is 32and i-10 index is 77. He has also co-authored six books related to engineering discipline and two monographs as well.Arshad Noor Siddiquee is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi, India. He has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience. He received his PhD in Production Engineering from IIT Delhi, India. His major research interests include aerospace materials and production. He has supervised eight Doctoral Theses and many M. Tech. Dissertations so far and currently he is supervising several Doctoral Theses. He has published more than 250 research papers in reputed International/National journals and conferences so far. His current Google Scholar Citations is 3,935, h-index is 34and i-10 index is 91. He has also co-authored six books related to engineering discipline and two monographs as well.

• 1. History of Civil Aviation. 2. Global Aviation Operations. 3. Civil Aviation Landscape in India. 4. Aviation Supply Chains. 5. Airport Operations. 6. Airline Operations. 7. Airline Disruption Management – I. 8. Airline Disruption Management – II. 9. Sustainability in the Aviation Industry. 10. Comparison of Airline and Railway Operations.