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200 14$aThe economic geography of air transportation $espace, time, and the freedom of the sky /$fJohn Bowen
210  1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2010.
215   $a1 online resource (353 p.)
225 0 $aRoutledge studies in the modern world economy  The economic geography of air transportation 
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aBook Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I: Getting airborne: The development of the airliner and commercial air transportation; 2 Jetting toward a smaller world: Early commercial aviation; 3 Far and wide: Wide-body jetliners and the growth of the global airline industry; 4 Space-makers and pace-setters: Boeing and Airbus; Part II: Open skies and a crowd of competitors; 5 Letting go: The liberalization of the airline industry; 6 Survival of the fittest: Network carriers in the global airline industry
327   $a7 A world taking wing: Low-cost carriers and the ascent of the manyPart III: Life aloft and on the ground in the airborne world; 8 People on the move at 1,000 kilometers per hour; 9 The high ways of trade; 10 Points of departure: Airports in the airborne world; 11 Dangers hidden in the air: The broader costs of the commercial aviation; Part IV: Beyond the horizon; 12 Coming back down to earth? The cloudy future of air transportation; Notes; References; Index
330   $aLike the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves. Fundamentally, air transportation has helped redefine the scale of human geography by dramatically reducing the cost of distance, both in terms of time and money. The result is what the author terms the 'airborne world', meaning all those places dependent upon and transformed by relatively inexpensive air transportation. The Economic Geography of Air Transportation answers three key questions: how did air transportation develop in the century after the Wright 
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