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Free Flight - Inventing the Future of Travel (Paperback, New Ed)
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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 convenience and flexibility
of the average traveller. Now, because of heightened security,
hours of waiting are tacked onto each trip. As James Fallows
vividly explains, a technological revolution is under way that will
relieve this problem. Free Flight features the stories of three
groups who are inventing and building the future of all air travel:
NASA, Cirrus Design in Duluth, Minnesota, and Eclipse Aviation in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. These ventures should make it possible for
more people to travel the way corporate executives have for years:
in small jet planes, from the airport that's closest to their home
or office directly to the airport closest to where they really want
to go. This will be possible because of a product now missing from
the vast array of flying devices: small, radically inexpensive jet
planes, as different from airliners as personal computers are from
mainframes. And, as Fallows explains in a new preface, a system
that avoids the congestion of the overloaded hub system will offer
advantages in speed, convenience, and especially security in the
new environment of air travel.
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Imprint: |
PublicAffairs,U.S.
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2002 |
First published: |
September 2002 |
Authors: |
James Fallows
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
272 |
Edition: |
New Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-58648-140-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Business & management >
General
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LSN: |
1-58648-140-1 |
Barcode: |
9781586481407 |
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