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Government Birds - Air Transport and the State in Western Europe (Paperback, New)
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Government Birds - Air Transport and the State in Western Europe (Paperback, New)
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Usually described as 'state' industries, European airlines have
been criticized as uncompetitive, overmanned, and subsidized. But
this view begs the question of why and how the state became
involved in air transport, as well as the question of whether
airlines could have succeeded in Europe and elsewhere without
government support. The first comparative study of the complicated
history of relations between the state and the air transport
industry in Europe, the book travels from the earliest scheduled
flights down to the era of liberalization and privatization in the
1990s. Martin Staniland concentrates on four key countries-France,
Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom-exploring both the
sources of support for airlines in Europe and the reasons why
public ownership lost favor as the industry expanded. In
particular, he examines links between the airlines on the one hand
and national aircraft builders and ministries concerned with
defense, foreign policy, and colonial administration on the other
hand. The author concludes by considering the crises and
restructuring experienced by national airlines in the 1980s and
1990s, and by exploring the related political battles over
liberalization and privatization.
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