The Economic Geography of Air Transportation : Space, Time, and the Freedom of the Sky (Paperback)

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