There are about half a dozen significant UK-based airlines. Each of them has an MIS department.

Try to get the name of their CIO or of a senior manager in it. Check IS management directories (your school librarian may be able to help) and the Web on the excellent chance that one or more have been quoted by name in the press. Once you have a name, call or write that person. Explain why you want to work at that airline and what you offer. Say that you may not have much experience yet but that you'll do whatever needs to be done and don't want much money. (Both of those are facts of life for people after their second university year, though you'll be way ahead of anyone who only wants to work for a summer.)

Look for trade press articles about the airline's systems, even if they don't mention a senior manager by name. They'll probably mention one or more products, databases, languages, whatever, that this airline uses. If you can mention that you've studied that, you gain more points by (a) having a useful skill and (b) showing that you did your homework.

Good luck!

[edited to correct spelling typo]

[This message has been edited by Efrem (edited 04-29-2003).]