The Flight Operations Management Program aims to train professional flight operations specialists equipped with the knowledge, skills, and competencies required to plan, manage, and monitor flights in accordance with national and international civil aviation regulations, ensuring operational safety. The program seeks to provide students with a strong technical foundation that enables them to maintain effective operational communication throughout all phases of flight, adopt a risk-based thinking approach, and respond appropriately to potential emergencies and operational disruptions.

In this context, the program aims to equip students with comprehensive operational workflow knowledge, enabling them to work in coordination with ground services teams, cabin crews, and technical maintenance units to ensure that flights are prepared for on-time and smooth departures. Through real case scenarios, simulation practices, and field training, students develop essential competencies such as coordination, problem-solving, time management, and operational assessment.

The program also focuses on enhancing students’ technological proficiency by enabling effective use of modern flight tracking systems, electronic flight planning software, and digital operations platforms. Through laboratory work, simulations, and computer-assisted planning applications, students gain the ability to use, interpret, and integrate contemporary technologies into operational decision-making processes.

Additionally, the program emphasizes educating individuals who can adapt to the dynamic working conditions of the aviation sector, maintain discipline under high-stress environments, and sustain their professional development through lifelong learning. Career management seminars, advisory services, and sector-based mentoring activities strengthen graduates’ adaptation skills to the professional work environment.

In line with the program’s quality assurance approach, regular feedback meetings with external stakeholders, integration of sectoral needs into the curriculum, and effective evaluation of summer internships are carried out to ensure continuous improvement of educational quality. In this way, students are prepared for flight operations expertise through a safety-oriented, practice-based, and up-to-date educational framework aligned with industry expectations.

Mission

The mission of the Flight Operations Management Program is to train flight operations specialists who possess the professional knowledge, skills, and competencies required to ensure the safe and efficient execution of flight operations in accordance with national and international civil aviation regulations. With a sector-focused educational approach, the program aims to educate professionals who are competent in flight planning, flight monitoring, emergency management, and operational coordination processes, who use technology effectively, and who embrace a strong safety culture.

Vision

The vision of the Flight Operations Management Program is to become a leading vocational education program that provides qualified workforce to the aviation industry, is preferred for its educational quality, complies with DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) standards, and prioritizes continuous development. The program aims to achieve national and international recognition as a program with high graduate employability, innovative approaches, and effective quality assurance processes.

Program Objectives

Objective 1 – Knowledge

To ensure that students acquire fundamental and field-specific knowledge related to flight planning, aircraft performance, meteorology, airspace structure, aviation legislation, and flight operations processes.

Objective 2 – Cognitive and Practical Skills

To provide students with the analytical, evaluative, and decision-making skills necessary for pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight operational stages, enabling them to conduct flight operations independently.

Objective 3 – Competence

To equip students with the professional competencies required to serve as licensed flight operations specialists certified by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, and to train graduates who can actively participate in emergency management, information flow, operational coordination, and safety processes.

Objective 4 – Communication and Teamwork

To develop students’ ability to communicate effectively with pilots, cabin crew, technical teams, ground services personnel, and other operational units, and to strengthen their professional collaboration skills for coordinated work with various disciplines.

Objective 5 – Technological Competence

To train graduates who can effectively use the software, planning tools, and electronic systems utilized in flight operations and who can adapt to technology-driven operational processes.

Objective 6 – Professional Development and Ethics

To cultivate individuals who embrace aviation safety culture, are knowledgeable about DGCA regulations, possess ethical responsibility awareness, and are open to lifelong learning and continuous professional development.

Objective 7 – Employment Orientation

To support the employability of graduates as flight operations specialists in national and international airlines, general aviation enterprises, air cargo companies, and ground services organizations.

In parallel with the rapid development of technology in today’s world, the aviation field is also developing rapidly. Factors such as the growth of trade between countries and safe and fast air transportation have increased interest in the aviation sector, and innovations and changes in aviation have become inevitable.

We are moving forward with the target to meet the labor force need in the sector and to train qualified personnel.                                                                                              
In line with our objective, we aspire to equip individuals with the necessary skills to meet the needs of the industry with the help of our expert staff.

Head of the Program
Instructor Evren Yılmaz

Students who graduate from the Flight Operations Management Program are presented an associate's degree diploma in the field of Flight Operations Management. Graduates of the program can find jobs in airline companies (passenger - cargo) and representation/surveillance companies. After getting a license approved by Civil Aviation, they will also be able to serve as a Flight Dispatcher (Flight Operations Specialist) who performs Flight Operations management.

İstanbul Kültür University, Vocational School, Bakırköy Campus İncirli Building, Yolbaşı S., 34147 Bakırköy/İstanbul.