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Flight dispatch and OCC training guides
Practical articles for aspiring dispatchers, flight planning officers and operations control professionals.
Flight planning · 27 Oct 2026
Flight planning: understanding the fuel briefing
Explore the fuel figures, assumptions and checks involved in a flight planning briefing.
OCC operations · 27 Oct 2026
A practical guide to OCC shift handovers
How to pass unresolved flight, aircraft, crew and station issues to the next operations shift.
Network recovery · 27 Oct 2026
Aircraft swaps: questions for operations control
A proposed aircraft swap affects more than the schedule. Explore the checks and coordination involved.
Flight dispatch · 27 Oct 2026
Flight watch: monitoring a flight after departure
Learn how dispatch teams track changing information and coordinate updates during a flight.
Career guide · 27 Oct 2026
Flight dispatcher training: comparing the UK and USA
A practical starting point for understanding dispatch careers, study and qualification routes in two different regulatory systems.
OCC operations · 27 Oct 2026
What happens in an airline operations control centre?
How dispatch, crew control, maintenance and station teams coordinate the daily flight programme and respond to disruption.
Weather · 27 Oct 2026
METAR and TAF for flight dispatch: a practical study guide
Learn how an observation and a forecast support a dispatch briefing, and why timing, units and source quality matter.
Careers · 27 Oct 2026
Flight dispatcher interview preparation: how to explain a decision
A structured way to discuss operational evidence, changing conditions, coordination and judgement in a dispatcher or OCC interview.
Careers · 20 Oct 2026
What a flight dispatcher actually does on shift
From the first weather check to signing the release: a walk through a dispatcher's working day in an OCC.
Planning · 13 Oct 2026
Fog, minima and choosing a good alternate
Why a destination forecast near minima changes your fuel, your alternate and sometimes your whole plan.
Cargo · 6 Oct 2026
Inside an express cargo hub's night sort
Sort waves, ULD build-up and dangerous goods: how the overnight cargo network keeps its promises.