The economic geography of air transportation : space, time, and the freedom of the sky / John Bowen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowen, John, 1966-

Series:

Routledge studies in the modern world economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aeronautics--Social aspects.

Aeronautics.

Aeronautics--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

xvi, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Contents:

Part I Getting airborne: the development of the airliner and commercial air transportation 9

2 Jetting toward a smaller world: early commercial aviation 11

3 Far and wide: wide-body jetliners and the growth of the global airline industry 39

4 Space-makers and pace-setters: Boeing and Airbus 60

Part II Open skies and a crowd of competitors 89

5 Letting go: the liberalization of the airline industry 91

6 Survival of the fittest: network carriers in the global airline industry 116

7 A world taking wing: low-cost carriers and the ascent of the many 147

Part III Life aloft and on the ground in the airborne world 173

8 People on the move at 1,000 kilometers per hour 175

9 The high ways of trade 202

10 Points of departure: airports in the airborne world 225

11 Dangers hidden in the air: the broader costs of commercial aviation 255

Part IV Beyond the horizon 267

12 Coming back down to earth? The cloudy future of air transportation 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415778053

0415778050

9780203857359

0203857356

OCLC:

434744635