Professional Certificate Course, *AMPAP Elective
Delivery: Classroom/Virtual
Duration: 5 days

This course explores how to integrate the airport’s mission/vision, master plan, airport brand and customer service delivery, and create the necessary alignment between all essential players (airport operator and the entire airport community) to achieve excellent results. These include enhanced customer experiences, improved customer satisfaction, a more positive airport image, stakeholder involvement and buy-in, and increased net revenues. The course examines techniques and principles and how to use them to achieve the very rewarding benefits that come from excellent customer experience management.

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe tools that enhance customer service airport-wide and build customer loyalty.
  • Use customer service techniques to attract new clients, increase passenger traffic, enhance the reputation of the airport, and motivate airport staff.
  • Apply customer-centric tools to make key business and operational decisions.
  • Analyse customer satisfaction research to define and manage the airport‘s brand and implement a comprehensive customer service improvement program.

Target Audience

  • Airport General Manager/ Executive Director
  • Airport Operations, Customer Service, Quality Assurance Directors, Managers, officers and staff
  • Airport Marketing, Commercial, Public Relations and Communications Directors and staff
  • Airport Security and Regulatory Managers, Airport Security Supervisors and staff
  • Airport Administration Management and staff

Course Content

  • Best practice approach to managing service quality, airport-wide brand and service standards
  • Raising internal and external customer service awareness including PRM needs
  • Defining customer satisfaction and selecting the right benchmarks
  • Setting customer satisfaction goals using reward and recognition programs
  • Survey design and methodology and analysing and presenting results
  • Approaches to engaging, energizing, and motivating airport employees and airport partners
  • Developing performance management programs and communications plan

Upcoming sessions

Dates Location Least Developed Countries Member Price* / African Airports Development Program Price Member / WBP Price Non-Member Price Register
09-13 December 2024 Istanbul, Turkey | 9:00am - 5:00pm US$1,765 US$1,965 US$2,665 Register
09-13 December 2024 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 9:00am - 5:00pm US$1,765 US$1,965 US$2,665 Register
20-24 October 2025 Abu Dhabi, UAE | 9:00am - 5:00pm US$1,765 US$1,965 US$2,665 Register

This course is part of the Airport Management Professional Accreditation Program (AMPAP)

ACI and ICAO established a formal partnership to provide accessible, affordable and universally available specialized management training to the global airports community. This initiative gave birth to the Airport Management Professional Accreditation Program (AMPAP).