1st Edition

The Economic Geography of Air Transportation Space, Time, and the Freedom of the Sky

By John T. Bowen Copyright 2010
352 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

352 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves. Fundamentally, air transportation has helped redefine the scale of human geography by dramatically reducing the cost of distance, both in terms of time and money. The result is what the author terms the ‘airborne world’, meaning all those places dependent upon and transformed by... Read more

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

Biography

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