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749A Air Transportation Specialist

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Overview

An Air Transportation Specialist moves passengers and prepares, documents, and selects air cargo for transport. The specialist plans aircraft loads and safely operates material handling equipment.

Core Skills

  • Aircraft cargo load planning
  • Air cargo packing and documentation
  • Safe material handling equipment operation

Civilian Career Paths

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Cargo and Freight Agents

Air cargo operations and documentation experience transfers directly to preparing shipping documents and arranging freight movement.

How to prepare: Practice preparing a civilian shipment file with a bill of lading, invoice, and shipment-method selection.

What the civilian work involves
  • Determine method of shipment and prepare bills of lading, invoices, and other shipping documents.
  • Negotiate and arrange transport of goods with shipping or freight companies.
  • Track delivery progress of shipments.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors

Aircraft load planning, cargo packing, and material handling equipment operation provide a practical foundation for coordinating aircraft cargo loading.

How to prepare: Build documented experience directing loading crews to complement your load-planning background before targeting supervisory openings.

What the civilian work involves
  • Determine the quantity and orientation of cargo, and compute an aircraft's center of gravity.
  • Direct ground crews in the loading, unloading, securing, or staging of aircraft cargo or baggage.
  • Distribute cargo to maximize use of space.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Cargo tracking system software
  • Microsoft Excel

Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks

Military passenger-movement duties transfer to directing passengers and supporting baggage and cargo loading at transportation terminals.

How to prepare: Take introductory reservation-system training focused on passenger check-in and boarding-pass issuance.

What the civilian work involves
  • Examine passenger documentation to determine destinations and to assign boarding passes.
  • Check baggage and cargo and direct passengers to designated locations for loading.
  • Provide boarding or disembarking assistance to passengers needing special assistance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Amadeus Altea Reservation
  • Computer reservation system CRS software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 749A

    [1] NEC entry "749A - Air Transportation Specialist"; cached text line 17868; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Aircraft cargo load planning, Air cargo packing and documentation, Safe material handling equipment operation, Cargo and Freight Agents (O*NET 43-5011.00), Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors (O*NET 53-1041.00), Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks (O*NET 43-4181.00)

  2. O*NET: Cargo and Freight Agents

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Cargo and Freight Agents (O*NET 43-5011.00)

  3. O*NET: Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors (O*NET 53-1041.00)

  4. O*NET: Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks (O*NET 43-4181.00)

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