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Free Flight

Inventing the Future of Travel

Free Flight( )
Author: Fallows, James
ISBN:978-1-58648-140-7
Publication Date:Sep 2002
Publisher:PublicAffairs
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $29.99
Book Description:

The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes full and funneling traffic through a centralized hub-and-spoke routing system. Virtually all of the technological innovation in airplanes in the last thirty years has been devoted to moving passengers more efficiently between major hubs. But what was left out of this equation was the...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Travel / Food, Lodging & Transportation / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.97 x 20.955 x 1.702 cm
Book Weight:0.327 Kilograms
Author Biography
Fallows, James (Author)
James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine, since the late 1970s and is based in Washington. He was raised in Redlands, California. He is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in American history and literature, and a graduate of Oxford University with a degree in economics. His career also includes two years as chief speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, two years as editor of US News & World Report. He won the National Magazine Award for his story, Iraq: The Fifty-First State? (2002), the National Book Award for nonfiction for his book, National Defense, and a N. Y. Emmy for the documentary series Doing Business in China. His books include Blind Into Baghdad, Postcards from Tomorrow Square, China Airbourne, and Our Towns.

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