Flight Security Applications In The Airline Companies And Practical Recommendations

Abstract

Flight Operations’ sole objective is to ensure effective and safe flights. In order to fulfill this objective, flight safety and security should be enhanced by all means. Flight security, which is an indispensible concept of the aviation industry along with its brother term of flight safety, means to protect the flights from all kinds of threats, such as terrorist attacks, assaults and  intrusions, while flight safety is to ensure flights to be conducted in accordance with rules and procedures. In this paper, flight securtiy is investigated, and things to be done for more secure flights are found out. For the sake of the research, a qualitive method based on archivical data gathering technic is used. Findings after the data analysis are used to form a set of security improvement recommendations for the airline companies.  Within this scope, initially, flight security procedures outlined by ICAO and implemented by the airline companies are investigated, then terrorist attacks occured between 2001-2017 are thoroughly secreened whereby a content analysis is conducted. After these analyses and investigations, things to be done to improve the flight security is listed. The primary objective of this research is to seek an answer to the question of “how can the airline companies improve the flight security within the flight operations” with the help of a practical recommendations set. It is hoped that this study will augment a new perspective to the context of flight security. 

Keywords

• Airline Companies,Flight security,Flight Safety,Flight Operations

Hava Yolu İşletmelerinde Uçuş Güvenliği Uygulamaları Ve İyileştirme Önerileri

Abstract

Uçuş operasyonlarının en önemli amacı uçuşları etkin ve emniyetli bir şekilde yerine getirmektir. Uçuş etkinliğini ve emniyetini yerine getirebilmek için güvenlik ve emniyeti kavramları her zaman önemli bir rol oynamaktadırlar. Havacılık endüstrisi için her zaman var olması gereken bu iki kavramdan uçuş güvenliği; uçuşun başlangıcından sonuna kadar uçuşu terör, saldırı, müdahale, vb. her türlü tehdide karşı korumak, uçuş emniyeti ise uçuş boyunca uçuş sistemleri ve uçuşun yapıldığı ortamlarda belirlenmiş kurallara uygun olarak uçulmasını sağlamaktır. Bu araştırmada uçuş güvenliği incelenmiş ve hava yolu şirketlerinde uçuşların daha güvenli bir şekilde yerine getirilebilmesi için yapılması gerekenler belirlenmiştir. Araştırma kapsamında nitel araştırma yöntemi tekniklerinden arşiv taraması ile veri toplanmış ve daha sonra elde edilen bulgular doğrultusunda hava yolu çalışanlarının güvenlik dokümanlarına ithal edilmek ve kurumsal düzeyde uçuş güvenliğini arttırmak amacıyla bir öneri seti hazırlanmıştır.  Bu kapsamda, öncelikle ICAO ve havayolu şirketleri tarafından kullanılan uçuş güvenliğine ilişkin kural ve yönetmelikler incelenmiş, sonrasında ise 2001-2017 yılları arasında meydana gelmiş olan uçuş güvenliğini zedeleyici terör eylemleri taranarak içerik analizleri yapılmıştır. Bu inceleme ve analizlerin sonrasında ise yapılması gerekenler anlatılmıştır. Bu çalışmadaki ana amaç ‘hava yolu şirketlerinde uçuş güvenliği daha etkin bir şekilde nasıl sağlanır’ sorusuna bir öneri seti ile cevap aramaktır. Çalışmanın hava yolu işletmelerindeki uçuş güvenliği uygulamalarına yeni bir bakış açısı kazandıracağı değerlendirilmektedir.

Keywords

• Uçuş güvenliği,Uçuş emniyeti,Terörizm,Uçuş Operasyonları,Hava Yolu İşletmeleri

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