Work placement
 

I don't know whether this is the right forum to post this message on, but as a bunch of travel experts I thought you may have some idea.

I am a second year student at university studing computing, and am currently looking for a work placement for next year. Do you know anywhere in the UK I can do a placement year in the travel industry, preferably with an airline?

Regards,

D Barella

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).]

Any of these any good?
British Airways
British Midland
Britannia
easyjet
KLM-UK
Monarch
MyTravel
Ryanair
Virgin Atlantic

Do you know the names of any of the CIO/Senior Manager or about any of their systems? Any info would be grateful.

Thanks

D Barella

Efrem's advice is solid. Do the research he mentions to get info/names/etc. Good luck. Cheers.

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Sharon

as this is the page for Flyertalk get togethers maybe mods could post it somewhere else? There is a wealth of knowledge here but there may be a better forum to post it in..

As there is already a "Hire a FlyerTalker" topic, I'm going to post the link to that...

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum95/HTML/002139.html

... and close this thread.

I will copy the relevant posts over there.