John T. Bowen

The Economic Geography of Air Transportation (eBook, ePUB)

Space, Time, and the Freedom of the Sky

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135156565
• Artikelnr.: 43072527

Autorenporträt

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