Airlines For the Rest Of Us: The Rise and Fall of America's Local Service Airlines - Couverture souple

Solomon, Stanley

 
9780595484430: Airlines For the Rest Of Us: The Rise and Fall of America's Local Service Airlines
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ISBN 10 : 0595484433 ISBN 13 : 9780595484430
Editeur : iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

Small Cities 'to be Hurt Tremendously' by Airline Cuts"Airline Subsidy Cuts Leave Three Towns Flightless"No Convenient Route to Buffalo-actual newspaper headlines, 2007-08It wasn't always like this. At least, not during the era of the Local Service Airlines. From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, these feisty, colorful startups provided a level of service unheard of today, reaching small communities across America. They had to. Encouraged and supported by the Civil Aeronautics Board, these privately-owned companies were mandated to bring reliable scheduled airline transportation-plus airmail and small package service-to the citizens of places like Enid, Oklahoma; or Walla Walla, Washington; or Kokomo, Indiana-and other places ignored by the bigger and older airlines. The "locals" may have begun with second-hand propeller-driven equipment, like the legendary DC-3, but by the mid-60s they were operating turboprops and jets-just like the bigger airlines. And some of these Locals, especially Frontier and Ozark and Piedmont, eventually gave the big boys a run for their money. One Local, Allegheny, became today's US Airways. These truly were Airlines For the Rest of Us, and this is the story of how they began, how they grew, and why they disappeared.

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Biographie de l'auteur

A Contributing Editor for Airways magazine, New York City-based Stan Solomon has written about commercial aviation since 1990, producing many full-length features plus a monthly column. He spent several years on extensive research gathering information for this story of an important aspect of U.S. aviation history.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595484433
ISBN 13 
9780595484430
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
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Personne responsable
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