Aviation · Leadership · MBE™
ACF
Aviation Career Foundations
Aviation
Leadership level
17 Modules
116 Topics
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ACF
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About the ACF Certification
Aviation Career Foundations introduces you to the people, systems, operations, and career paths that keep the aviation industry moving. From airlines and airports to ground handling, customer service, and recruitment, the course builds essential industry knowledge alongside the communication, service, and professional skills aviation employers value.
Through practical frameworks, real-world case studies, and focused chapter reviews, you will gain the confidence, terminology, and career readiness needed to start and grow in aviation.
What You Will Learn
- Map the global aviation ecosystem and the role each player performs.
- Read an airport like a professional: landside and airside zones, stakeholders and industry codes.
- Follow the eight stages of the passenger journey and identify who owns each handoff.
- Run a departure gate end to end, including duties of care under EC 261 during disruption.
- Describe the cabin crew mandate, the chain of command and the full working day.
- Apply safety culture in practice: situational awareness, hazard reporting, FOD control and PPE.
- Meet ICAO Annex 17 security requirements and respond to fire, evacuation and medical events.
- Handle complaints with the five step sequence and communicate across cultures.
What you take away
Skills You'll Build
Aviation Operations Literacy: airline business models, hubs, alliances and the 45 minute turnaround.
Passenger Handling and Departure Control: acceptance, documents, seating, baggage and Resolution 753.
Gate and Irregular Operations: boarding, special assistance, oversales, delays and re accommodation.
Cabin Operations and In-Flight Service: pre-flight checks, turbulence procedures and service planning.
Core Topics
Who Is This Course For?
Cabin crew applicants preparing for assessment days
Prepare for cabin crew assessment days with confidence
Airport and airline passenger service agents
Build the passenger service foundations airlines expect
Ground handling, ramp and baggage staff moving into supervision
Prepare for your first supervisory role in ground operations
Travel, tourism and hospitality professionals moving across
Move your hospitality experience into aviation
Customer service and retail professionals changing careers
Change careers into aviation with confidence
Aviation students preparing for IATA aligned certification
Prepare for IATA-aligned aviation certification
What's Included?
Self-paced modules you can revisit anytime- Digital study resources and templates
- Knowledge checks and practice assessments
- The fee includes course, examination and certification fees
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Course Outline
- A century of commercial flight, from mail planes to mega hubs
- Why aviation matters to economies, and to your career
- The cast of characters: one flight, a dozen employers
- Ground handlers, cargo operators and the sellers of seats
- Anatomy of a 45 minute turnaround
- Who writes the rules of the sky: ICAO standards to your checklist
- Full service, low cost, regional, charter and cargo business models
Complete the professional assessment to earn the ACF credential
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