Organization

Lecturer: Christiane Schmidt
Time and Place: in Timeedit
The official page from the studiehandbok/Study Guide@lith
Detailed term plan: TBA [PDF last updated August 28, 2025] - please note: schedule may still be changed, in particular, some guest lectures have to be finalized.
Lisam class room for this course.
All zoom links are shared in a pdf document on lisam (the file will be updated during the course).
If you want to see what we will read for which topic, check out [this list].
Homepage for 2016, homepage from 2018, homepage from 2019, homepage from 2020, homepage from 2021, homepage from 2022, homepage from 2023, and homepage for 2024.
IMPORTANT: The NEW! coursebook (since 2017): Peter Belobaba, Cynthia Barnhart,and Amedeo Odoni: "The Global Airline Industry". Print ISBN 9781118881170 Ebook ISBN 9781118881149, online access via LiU library.

Current Stuff.

Welcome to the class!
We start with the first introductory lecture on September 1, 13:15-15:00, directly followed by the first half of the lecture on our first topic from 15:15 to 17:00.
A [PDF] on writing reports and opposition reports.

Information will be made available via the mailinglist:

Please submit via lisam, so that all students can access your reports, .pdf submissions are encouraged.

You can download the lecture slides here (slides of guest lecturers are not shared here, but only on lisam), Slides are password protected! :

Lecture 0, September 1 (Introduction): [PDF]
Lecture 1, September 1 and 4 (Airlines, General Questions): [PDF]
Lecture 2, September 8 (Airlines, Management of Ressources, plus part from topic 1): [PDF]
Lecture 3, September 15, reverse lecture (Airlines, Management of Ressources): [PDF]
Lecture 4, September 22 (Airlines, Economical Strategies and Steerage): [PDF]
Lecture 5, September 29 (Airport and Capacity): [PDF]

[NEW!] Peter Belobaba, Cynthia Barnhart,and Amedeo Odoni: "The Global Airline Industry". Print ISBN 9781118881170 Ebook ISBN 9781118881149, online access via LiU library.
Literature used before, but not covering most of the lectures:
- Olle Åkerlind och Håkan Örtlund, "The ABZ of Flight Operations". Can be bought at Bokakademin or via http://www.flightproc.com/
- Ahmed Abdelghany och Khaled Abdelghany, "Introduction to airline management", from Modeling applications in the airline industry.
- Lindh A, Andersson T, Värbrand P and Yuan D, "Airport Logistics – Integration of ATM and ground processes".

Here you can find old exams, however, since 2023, the examination form for TNFL01 are oral exams.

Some of the old exams are given by Tobias Andersson Granberg. Observa att från och med oktober 2013, är hjälpmedel (förutom räknedosor) på tentamen inte längre tillåtna.
2010-10-22
2011-01-15
2011-08-27
2011-10-20
2012-10-24
2013-01-08
2013-10-31
2014-01-09
2014-08-30
2014-10-29
2015-01-09
2015-08-29
2015-10-28
2016-01-07
2016-10-26
2017-01-05
2017-08-24
2017-10-17
2018-01-02
2018-08-30
2018-10-22
2019-01-07
2019-08-29
2019-10-21
2020-01-07