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9780742500297

Life in the Air Surviving the New Culture of Air Travel

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742500297

  • ISBN10:

    0742500292

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-12-20
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Summary

This book is not just about air travel. It is about the emergent social world of flying. It concerns air space and behavior in the air the way someone else might look at cities and street behavior. Economic, political, and cultural aspects are all conside

Table of Contents

Introduction: Air Travel as a Simple Fact of Life
1(8)
Part 1 The Airport
The Terminal as Transition Space and Gateway
9(6)
The Airport as Shopping Mall
15(5)
The Airport as City and Community
20(18)
Eroticism and the Airport
38(4)
Boredom, Delays, Cancellations
42(17)
Part 2 Nowhere Architecture
Place and Placelessness
59(3)
Airport Architecture: Creating a Sense of Place
62(13)
The Airport Sign System
75(3)
Social Activities within Terminals
78(5)
Part 3 Life in the Air
Frequent Flying: What Fliers Want
83(7)
Airplane Etiquette: Behavior in the Air
90(6)
Drunks
96(4)
Laughs
100(2)
Meals
102(5)
Crashes and Air Safety
107(7)
Fear of Flying
114(6)
New Horrors
120(3)
Medical Emergencies
123(3)
Dehydration
126(2)
Jetlag: Flying and Folk Religion
128(7)
Part 4 The Compression of Space and Time
Industrial and Corporate Changes
135(3)
The Need for Air Travel
138(3)
Experiencing Space/Time Compression
141(6)
Bi-coastalism and the Fear of Flying
147(3)
Bi-coastalism: Disorientation and Decompression
150(4)
Living in the Air: How People Do It
154(5)
Part 5 The Airline Business: Growing Concerns
The Emergence of Transactional Spaces
159(3)
Capitalism and the Path to Deregulation
162(5)
Hubs, Spokes and Deregulation
167(3)
Discount Carriers
170(5)
Crazy Fares
175(2)
When Lives Were Lost Due to Deregulation
177(3)
Labor Costs and Contentious Employer-Employee Relations
180(6)
Complaints: Overcrowding, Overbooking, and Increasing Consumer Discontent
186(7)
The Future of Deregulation
193(6)
Part 6 Epilogue: The Most Important Thing
Flying and the Future
199(6)
References 205(6)
Index 211(6)
About the Author 217

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