DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERIZED

AIRPLANE PASSENGER MANIFEST INFORMATION

(A CASE STUDY OF SOSOLISO AIRWAYS)

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CERTIFICATION

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DEDICATION

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This work is specially dedicated to

The Almighty God

The Giver of Life and Knowledge.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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 TABLE OF CONTENT

COVER PAGE

TITLE PAGE

APPROVAL PAGE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 OVERVIEW OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM

DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM

METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

SOURCE OF DATA

INTERVIEW METHOD

1.2.2 REFERENCE TO WRITING TEXT

1.3 INPUT ANALYSIS

1.4 PROCESS ANALYSIS

1.5 OUTPUT ANALYSIS

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1.6 PROBLEMS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM

1.7 JUSTIFICATION OF THE NEW SYSTEM

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 DESIGN OF THE NEW SYSTEM

2.1 OUTPUT SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN

2.2 INPUT SPECIFICATION

2.3 FILE DESIGN

2.4 PROCEDRE CHART

2.5 SYSTEM FLOW CHART

2.6 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

CHAPTER THREE

3.0 IMPLEMENTATION

3.1 PROGRAM DESIGN

3.2 PROGRAM FLOW CHART

3.3 PSEUDO CODE

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 CHAPTER FOUR

4.0 DOCUMENTATION

4.1 OPERATIONAL GUIDE

4.2 SOURCE CODE LISTING

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSIONS

CONCLUSION

REFERENCE

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 CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 OVERVIEW OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM

This passenger manifest information (PMI) is a kind of records that help

individual flight to organized their passenger in a flight. This record in the

flight. This record help them to know the members of passenger in the flight,

without their records they can known the numbers of passenger in the flight. So

the passenger manifest information contained the:

(1) Full name

(2) Date of birth

(3) Social security number

(4) Emergency contact

(5) Telephone number

From passenger traveling on flight with sosoliso airline (e.g., during the

sosoliso airline disaster family assistance act of December 10th 2005. this law

was passed to address the difficult associated with notification of the families

in the aftermath of sosoliso airline crashes). This proposal is also being issued

to fulfill a recommendation contained in the initial and final report of families

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that has be affect in the crashes. This passenger manifest information (PMI), is

used to point out identify data elements that may point to a passenger who

represents a security risk. Once highlighted, analytical specialists can them

manually review these records and identify those passengers who should be

subjected to additional screening upon their arrival.

1.2 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM

This study is all about the passengers manifest information (PMI) which

is a records of individual passenger in the flight.

The researcher visited sosoliso airline and find out that the passenger

manifest information contained the records of passenger (e.g., full name, date

of birth and or social security number, emergency contact and telephone

number). Which help them to organize their flight.

The examination of the existing system to determine what must be

accomplished and the best method of accomplishing the necessary operation is

know as SYSTEM ANALYSIS. The stages involved in the system analysis are

listed below.

(1) The type of processing to be done by the system

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 (2) The input data “captured’ for the system

(3) The output required

(4) The file which could be kept and used

(5) The nature of processing i.e. its logic procedure stage and frequency.

1.3 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

The researcher visited sosoliso airline and find out that the

passenger manifest information (PMI) contained the records of

passengers, which help them to organize their flight.

SOURCE OF DATA

This data is used in this research work were collected from

primary and secondary source hence, they comprise of the following

sources:

(1) Direct interview in (sosoliso airline)

(2) The internet

(3) Unpublished books (project)

(4) Pamphlets of general knowledge.

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1.4 INTERVIEW METHOD

The researcher use the method of unstructured interview to carried out

the research to know about the passenger manifest information in sosoliso

airline. It ash one of the staff in the engineer department, the researcher know

that the passenger manifest information contain the name, date of birth, contact

address etc, of a passengers that booking for ticket to travel in a flight in the

sosoliso airline company.

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 REFERENCE TO WRITING TEXT

The researcher used this material to carried out it’s project work. This

material are:

(1) Sosoliso airline company (engineer department)

(2) Unpublished books (project)

(3) From the federal register: March 13 1997 volume 62, number 49.

online via GPO access (wais.access.gpo.gov)

(4) Presented by the IATA: Agenda items: facilitation and security of

travel documents and boarder control 2.4: advance passenger

information (API) airline reservation system and passenger name

record (PMI) access by states.

INPUT ANALYSIS

The necessary input to the system includes the following:-

(1) Full name

(2) Date of birth

(3) Social security number

(4) Emergency contact

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(5) Telephone number

The full name of individual passenger that booking for the flight

indicates the records of passenger that travel in sosoliso airline.

The date of birth. Is the day that the passenger was born in that particular

city or country.

The social security number: is a kind of information that no two person

have it belong to one person alone.

Emergency contact: Is the places of the passengers that booking for the

flight in Sosoliso airline.

Telephone number: This is a kind of information that can be used to

reach the passenger that booking in sosoliso airline of this is globalization

network that has be used to reach people in different places. Below is a

diagrammatic representation of the passenger manifest information in

Sosoliso airline Enugu”.

Where are you going?

I’m flying: from To

Options: class

Return one way

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 Class: Economy first class

WHERE ARE YOU GOING

Leave: Day month morning coming back: Day month evenining number

of passengers:

Adults (over 12 years) 1 children aged 2 – 12 years 0 infants under 2

years 0

TITLE SELECT A TITLE

First name:

Surname:

Children name (if any):

PROCESS ANALYSIS

The process involve the transformation of available input data inot

useful output in this particular study, this entails matching projects with their

appropriate passenger manifest information in such a way as to satisfy the

criteria of requirements and suitability: Thus, a project is picked from the

scheduled proposed project list, its passenger information requirements

matched against the passenger manifest information attributes of various

location until a perfect already obtained. If a similar project already exists in

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the location that matched another and they may be good match is used a s a

substitute site for the project.

OUTPUT ANALYSIS

After processing using the necessary input data, the output from the

system include: the passenger information such has, full name, date of birth

emergency contact, social security number, and telephone number.

PROBLEMS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM

The existing system has numerous disadvantages and inherent dangers.

(1) Basic Approach: Passengers would be defined broadly to include

confirmed, ticketed passengers as well as standing bys, walk-ups, lap

infants, those rerouted from another flight or our carrier, and non-

revenue passengers. At this time, we expect that the sosoliso

passenger manifest information would consist of passenger:

i. Full name;

ii. Date of birth (DOB)

iii. Social security number;

iv. Contact name

v. Contact telephone number.

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 Further, we envision the information would be transmitted to the

department of transportation (DOT) and the national transportation safety

board (NTSB) as soon as possible, but no later than three hours, after the

sosoliso disaster.

(2) Frequent flyer information and a sosoliso passenger manifest

information requirement. We understand that more extensive

passenger information is kept on hand for frequent flyers, and that

frequent flyers account for over one-half of all passengers traveling in

sosoliso airline.

(3) Privacy considerations and fraud issues. What privacy issued are

raised by a sosoliso passenger manifest information requirement as

outlined above? Will manifest information be subject to subpoena by

private litigants and law enforcement agencies? What fraud issued, if

any, are raised by implementing the above sosoliso passenger

manifest information requirement? What are the implications for

personal privacy that would result if sosoliso airline were required to

collect any of the following information from passengers: full name,

date of birth, social security number, emergency contact and phone

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 number? What types of safeguards, if any, should be placed upon the

passenger manifest information that is collected by sosoliso airline.

(4) Coverage of sosoliso passenger manifest information requirement and

the differing implications, if any, for different types of airline that

would be covered. We envision and charter operators would be

covered by a sosoliso passenger manifest information requirement”,

scheduled and charter airline, as well as air trails and commuter.

JUSTIFICATION OF THE NEW SYSTEM

(1) It satisfies the user requirement at the right time with in an

acceptable level of accuracy

(2) It provides an effective security measure in order to avoid loss of

stored data in the master file and also avoid fraud.

(3) It provides an adequate coding system to aid identification,

comparison sorting, unification and elimination of ambiguities

(error).

(4) It provides check and control, which are capable of detecting and

dealing with exceptional circumstances and errors.

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(5) It provides an adequate insight on policy matter and their effects

on the passenger manifest information requirement system.

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 CHAPTER TWO

2 DESIGN OF THE NEW SYSTEM

The design of the new system. Was made possible as the research report

reveals the need to meet the requirements set for the existing system and to

implement upon the system. The new system would be designed, using visual

basic programming language and the resulting software would be subjected to

a series of tests to ensure its efficiency and to be some it meet the specificating

set for it

2.2 OUTPUT SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN

The output specification for the new system is as below:

(i) Ability to document of passenger booking the flight

(ii) Make or generate report that would help the management take

critical decision affecting the company.

(iii) Make remarks correcting the growth of the company, forecasting

future business growth or trend and their print the report itself.

2.3 INPUT SPECIFICATION

The input specification for the new system include they following this:

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 (i) Purchase good documentation

(ii) Ability to store vast documents.

2.4 FILE DESIGN

The file design used was carefully chosen as file and security issues

were considered. As a result random access file system was adapted as it does

not only caser for flexibility and ensures security of information .It also

provide speedy access to records. See reporting for file design structure.

2.5 PROCEDURE CHART

Log in

Display
Menu

Add Edit Update Generate

records records records report

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Manual
Document

Key in
data

Process the data

Display
Storage
Report
Disk

2.7 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

These are two requirements classifications (1) Hardware and (2)

Software

(1) Hardware requirements these include:

(a) An IBM-PC compatible

(b) 128 MB RAM size

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 (c) Printer

(d) Storage disks

(2) Software requirements

(a) Windows 98 or higher version

(b) Diagrammatic tool (software) e.g. tutorials

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3 IMPLEMENTATION

Several approaches to implementation were considered, however: pulse

a implementation was adopted for the new system as it gives room for the staff

or users to get used to it before it becomes fully implemented, other

implementation methods include:

(i) Direct change over

(ii) Parallel implementation

(iii) Pilot implementation

The program was tested with some data to ascertain it reliability and

efficiency etc. see appropriate for test run results.

3.2 PROGRAM DESIGN

The newly, designed system was developed using visual basic. It allows

the following operations to be performed.

(i) User authentication

(ii) Accept and validate new records

(iii) Edit existing records

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(v) Current report and finally

(vi) Exit the program in report.

3.3 PROGRAM FLOW CHART

Start

Authenticate user
Login

If
Access
granted

R Options
A Add records
B Edit records
C Update records
D Admate report
E Exit

Yes
If
option
= A?
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If
option A
= B?
B

Yes
If
option C
= C?

If
option D
DD
= D?

If
option
= E?
RD

ADD RECORDS
Stop

AD

Input data

Validated process
data

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 Store data

Return

EDIT RECORDS

BD

Input records to edit

Process data

Store records

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UPDATE RECORDS

CD

Reconcile all
documents

Store in disk

Return

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 DISPLAY REPORT

DD

Display
Report

Return

3.4 PSEUDO CODE

The program pseudo code is as below

Login

Authenticate user

If access granted them

Display menu: Goto choice

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“Put wrong password, access denied”

End if

Choice

If choice = A them

Add new records: Return

Else if choice = B then

Else if choice = c

Update all files: Return

Else if choice = c then

Update all files: Return

Else if choice = D them

Generate and display records

Return

Else if choice = E them

Exit program

End if

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4.0 DOCUMENTATION

The program was developed using visual basic language. Visual

basic as an object-oriented language provides me with the necessary

tools to be able to code the design into full software. The sectains

provides the operational guide and source code.

4.1 OPERATIONAL GUIDE

(i) Insert the disc in the CD ROM drive

(ii) Copy the program folder to any part of the local disc

(iii) Double-click the sosoliso manifest information program

(iv) Follow the screen instruction

4.2 SOURCE CODE LISTING

Please see appendix for source codes.

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5.0 RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSIONS

Having examined the usefulness of computers in solving the

problem in passenger manifest information and having examined the

improvement of sosoliso Airline Company, this author therefore

recommends that the manifest system should be computerized.

Though the system will cost especially in terms of personal and

equipment, but the author believes that these cost be off set of the system

is properly implemented taking into consideration the peculiar features

of the computer which make it an available tool other system which is

one way or the other or the other related find it that passenger manifest

information should also be computerized. The following works should

also be done before or after implementation.

(i) That the staff of the company should be trained to be

computer literate for efficiency and effectiveness

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 (ii) Constants power supply should be insured by the procurrent

of stand by generator

(iii) That the computer room should be adequate air-

conditioned.

(iv) Adequate security measure should be taking so that entry

and exist from the computer room should be monitored

(v) That dust protective measure should be assured to avoid

constant break down of the computers. Finally, the authors

wish to recommend continuation of this project.

5.2 CONCLUSION

These passenger manifest information is a kind of information that the

sosoliso airline have to use for self guard so that the company can more

forward and grow and developed in the area of security and it will make them

to organized their passenger that booking for fight. And the area of disaster too,

the company can know those that booking in that flight, if the families and

loved ones came to them. The company can meet them for compensation only

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when the families and loved ones bring some credential that matched the

passenger manifest information or passenger name record.

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(1) Mr. Israel Aneke: Some concepts and applications in

computer science (IMT) information

technology.

(2) Ezeano A.N. (1991): Computer literacy case for

Nigerian satellite, November 10, P.13.

(3) Ezeano V.N. (1997) Unpublished lecture note on

introduction to system analysis

(4) Lady Mercy O. Adibe: Computer literacy, a computer

science (IMT) fundamental approach

(5) Lady Mercy O. Adibe: Computer operations computer

science (IMT) and applications.

(6) www.sosolisoairline.com

(7) www.wais.access.gpo.gov

(8) Cairo, Egypt, 22 March: Facilitation and security

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To 2 April 2004 Of travel documents and boarder

Agenda item 2 control formalities. Advance passenger

(API)

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