Drawing upon hundreds of mainly secondary sources, this book answers three questions: how did air transportation develop in the century after the Wright Brothers, what does it mean to live in an airborne world, and what is the future of aviation in this century?
Drawing upon hundreds of mainly secondary sources, this book answers three questions: how did air transportation develop in the century after the Wright Brothers, what does it mean to live in an airborne world, and what is the future of aviation in this century?
John T. Bowen is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Central Washington University, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction Part 1: Getting Airborne: The Development of the Airliner and Commercial Air Transportation 2. Jetting Towards a Smaller World: Early Commercial Aviation 3. Far and Wide: Wide-body Jetliners and the Growth of the Global Airline Industry 4. Space-Makers and Pace-Setters: Boeing and Airbus Part 2: Open Skies and a Crowd of Competitors 5. Letting Go: The Liberalization of the Airline Industry 6. Survival of the Fittest: Network Carriers in the Global Airline Industry 7. A World Taking Wing: Low Cost Carriers and the Ascent of the Many Part 3: Life Aloft and on the Ground in the Airborne World 8.People on the Move at 1,000 Kilometers per Hour 9. The High Ways of Trade 10. Points of Departure: Airports in the Airborne World 11. Dangers Hidden in the Air: The Broader Costs of Commercial Aviation Part 4: Beyond the Horizon 12. Coming Back Down to Earth? The Cloudy Future of Air Transportation
1. Introduction Part 1: Getting Airborne: The Development of the Airliner and Commercial Air Transportation 2. Jetting Towards a Smaller World: Early Commercial Aviation 3. Far and Wide: Wide-body Jetliners and the Growth of the Global Airline Industry 4. Space-Makers and Pace-Setters: Boeing and Airbus Part 2: Open Skies and a Crowd of Competitors 5. Letting Go: The Liberalization of the Airline Industry 6. Survival of the Fittest: Network Carriers in the Global Airline Industry 7. A World Taking Wing: Low Cost Carriers and the Ascent of the Many Part 3: Life Aloft and on the Ground in the Airborne World 8.People on the Move at 1,000 Kilometers per Hour 9. The High Ways of Trade 10. Points of Departure: Airports in the Airborne World 11. Dangers Hidden in the Air: The Broader Costs of Commercial Aviation Part 4: Beyond the Horizon 12. Coming Back Down to Earth? The Cloudy Future of Air Transportation
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