Introduction
Aviation provides the only transportation network across the globe and it is crucial for global business development and tourism enrichment. Air transportation is oneof the most important services to offer both significant social and economic benefits. Byserving tourism and trade, it contributes to economic growth. It also providesjobsand increases tax revenues. Air transportation is essential for the fast movement ofpeople and cargo shipments around the world. Finally, air transportation improvesthequality of people's lives by broadening their leisure and cultural experiences. It givesabroad choice of holiday destinations around the world and is an affordable meanstovisit distant friends and relatives.
The use of commercial aviation has grown significantly over the last fewdecades, estimated to be more than seventy-fold since the first jet airliner flew in 1949 (ATAG2005). This rapid growth is attributed to a number of factors. First, rising disposableincome and quality of life in many parts of the world have encouraged morepeople in these areas to travel and explore opportunities overseas. Second, deregulation of aviation laws, and bilateral and open-sky agreements between governments have opened new markets for airlines, which make travel easier andcheaper. Third, demand is increasing because of growing confidence in aviationasasafe mode of travel. Fourth, increased efficiency and increasing competition havereduced world airfares and the cost of travel. Finally,globalization has increasedtheaverage distance traveled, as people do business in countries which nowhave improvedpolitical and social environment.
This project on Airline Management System is the automation of registration processofairline system. The system is able to provide much information like passenger’sinformation, criminal's, list of all passengers etc. The systemalso allows ustoaddrecords when a passenger reserves a ticket. For data storage and retrieval weusethefile-handling facility of C Language. It enables us to add any number of recordsinourdatabase. But for intrinsic nature of file handling, the retrieval process is slowwhenweSearch a particular record in the database, because record is searched sequentially.