The economic geography of air transportation : space, time, and the freedom of the sky / John Bowen.
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Abingdon, Oxon. ; New York :
Routledge,
2010.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in the modern world economy ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.