The Airport Operator is a professional figure who carries out various activities, relating to the management of all activities related to air transport within the passenger area: ticket office, check-in, arrivals, lost and found, special assistance. Accademia del Lavoro organizes courses for airport attendant, providing students with a series of knowledge and skills, essential to play this role.
As far as the ticketing is concerned, the airport operator is responsible for issuing and re-issuing tickets, accepting passengers with hand baggage, regularising excess baggage, checking the regularity of travel, issuing new tickets instead of lost ones, checking the availability of flights.
With regard to the check-in sector, the airport operator is responsible for checking travel documents, allocating seats to passengers without a reservation, checking irregularities in operations, such as delays and cancelled flights, the management of embarkation operations.
In the arrivals sector, it provides assistance to incoming passengers and special assistance to the disabled, sick or children, providing information to passengers and airport co-ordinators on any delays in the delivery of luggage, or their loss or damage.
The course organized by the Labour Academy responds to the need to standardize the training provided by the various Member States aimed at the recognition of a qualification at European level as Euro passenger handling agent. In this way, a possibility of professional growth is opened in advance.

The airport operator shall be responsible for:

Knowledge of the national and international airport system, the general context of air transport, the organisation and network of international carriers;
Excellent knowledge of IT systems for ticket issuance
Good knowledge of international aviation law
Knowledge of the forms and of the construction of the rates
Excellent communication and public relations
Knowledge of the general rules for determining the validity of the journey
Travel document, for excess baggage, for maximum size and allowance
Knowledge of internal procedures, operation of IT systems
Languages skills
Organisational capacity, autonomy and initiative
Knowledge of safety standards