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A History of International Civil Aviation - From its Origins through Transformative Evolution (Paperback)
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A History of International Civil Aviation - From its Origins through Transformative Evolution (Paperback)
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For civil aviation to progress it has never been just about
technology and business practices. To go from the rudiments of the
early services that plied across short distances in Europe and
America to what we experience today required most of all that
politicians and policy-makers address the central problems of
national sovereignty over air space and national ownership and
control over airlines. Those problems have plagued the development
of seamless and efficient air services for consumers in the
international sphere. One would have thought that international
airlines might have led the way towards a uniform globalized system
given the nature of their enterprise, but that has definitely not
been the case. Sovereignty and security issues have more often than
not trumped commercial arguments for a more level playing field for
international airlines. There has thus been an on-going tussle
between sovereignty, state security and mercantilist practices on
the one hand and the ambition for civil aviation to flourish on the
other. As one early commentator put it:' one is convinced that the
sovereign state cannot be left without authority over what happens
just above its territory, (but) ... one shrinks from the idea that
aerial navigation could be the object of narrow-minded
restrictions.' How those narrow-minded restrictions were gradually
eroded, though still not eliminated, to enable civil aviation to
flourish is at the heart of this work. This book will be of direct
interest to students of aviation, modern history, international
relations and transport. It is also of value to airline industry
professionals and government transport departments.
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