The Economic Geography of Air Transportation

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?

Autorentext
John T. Bowen is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Central Washington University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction, Part 1: Getting Airborne: The Development of the Airliner and Commerical Air Transportation, Chapter 1: From Kitty Hawk to Idlewild: The Geography of Early Commercial Aviation, Chapter 2: Jetting Towards a Smaller World, Chapter 3: Far and Wide: Wide-body Jetliners and the Ascent of the Global Airline Industry, Chapter 4: Space-Makers and Pace-Setters: Boeing and Airbus, Part 2: Open Skies and Crowded Airports, Chapter 5: Letting Go: The Liberalization of the Airline Industry, Chapter 6: Survival of the Fittest: Network Carriers in the Global Airline Industry, Chapter 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, Chapter 8: People on the Move in a Smaller World, Chapter 9: The High Ways of Trade, Chapter 10: Points of Departure: Airports in the Airborne World, Part 4: Towards the Horizon, Chapter 11: Fear of Flying: The Broader Costs of the Airborne World, Chapter 12: Coming Back Down to Earth? The Cloudy Future of Air Transportation

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