Turkish Airlines, Boeing and Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey’s leading aerospace engineering and technology institution, today opened their doors to the class of 2014-2016 of the recently founded new academic program. The master’s program will equip Turkish Airlines’ future executives with the skills needed to deal with Turkey’s rapidly growing aviation industry.

The two-year master’s program in Air Transport Management, which is the first of its kind in the region and was launched last year, also has academic partnerships with Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, Cranfield University in the United Kingdom and the University of British Columbia in Canada.