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SCOPE 3 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING FRAMEWORK FOR AN AIRLINE COMPANY

This research focuses on Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions in the context of an airline company. In light of sustainability, organizations are increasingly looking to understand their impact on climate change across their operations, products, and value chain. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission accounting and reporting provide the necessary baseline data to implement effective sustainability and cost reduction strategies. Scope 3 emissions, as defined by the GHG Protocol, result from the use of assets not owned or controlled by the reporting entity but indirectly influence its value chain. For airlines, these emissions include GHGs associated with all purchased raw materials and emissions from the use of equipment during its useful life. This research aims to design an accounting and reporting framework to begin assessing Scope 3 emissions for the national Latvian airline company, Air Baltic Corporation AS. This framework serves as a methodological basis and practical guide, enabling the company to align its strategy with sustainable development goals and quantify the potential impact of Scope 3 emissions across its value chain.

Author: Kate Šavikina

Supervisor: Irina Kuzmina-Merlino

Degree: Professional Master

Year: 2024

Work Language: English

Study programme: Aviation Management

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Artificial intelligence for crew scheduling in aviation sector

This research aims to relive the factors on applying AI in crew scheduling and rostering on low-cost airlines, IndiGO Airlines was chosen as base, to minimize the time and effort of human resources and increase effectiveness. This research looks into the possibility of utilizing artificial intelligence proposed model to schedule through a decision support system to reduce mistake from human intervention. Techniques employed includes of extensive literature searches, six qualitative interviews with two respondents per industry and 109 quantitative online surveys for crew scheduling department respondents. The data collected from the survey was analyzed and presented in the form of graphs to ease interpretation of the this research by concentrating on the challenges and costs involved in Artificial Intelligence. Thus, the techniques such as Data reduction and abduction logic have been used to find the sound information out of the whole set of information.From the survey results and interview questions, there are major benefits of incorporating AI in crew scheduling and rostering. The study also presents the best approach that low-cost airlines can adopt to lower errors and uphold performance, effectively showing that the adoption of AI in the industry is significantly beneficial

Author: Slavia Robert Kanjirethingal

Supervisor: Nadežda Spiridovska

Degree: Professional Master

Year: 2024

Work Language: English

Study programme: Aviation Management

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Key factors of financial resilience in the market segment of full service carriers in crises

This thesis focuses on a detailed analysis of the financial resilience factors within the airlines of the full-service market segment. The thesis is based on exploring the factors that enable airlines to manage and recover from disruptions effectively. By examining the airline industry's response to the disruptions, the thesis shows important elements such as financial stability, operational agility, strategic foresight, and important management methodologies to survive crises. Additionally, important factors and important strategies and scenarios will be shown to survive and to be resilient within crises. Furthermore, the role of governmental aids and their methods, in the form of financial aid and flexibility, is examined and also shows the importance in lowering negative economic effects for the industry in crisis. The thesis also shows how important effective collaboration between airlines, regulatory authorities, and other stakeholders can help to manage crises effectively. Taking all this into account, the thesis is to show how financial resilience in the airline industry can be described in different ways. Moreover, it reveals the importance of strategic planning in network, operation and finance to handle further crises in future.

Author: Stefan Bonhardt

Supervisor: Jeļena Popova

Degree: Professional Master

Year: 2024

Work Language: English

Study programme: Aviation Management

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