Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos (repost)
Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos By Thomas Petzinger Jr.
Publisher: Thr.ee Riv.ers Pre.ss 1996 | 624 Pages | ISBN: 0812928350 | PDF | 4 MB
Publisher: Thr.ee Riv.ers Pre.ss 1996 | 624 Pages | ISBN: 0812928350 | PDF | 4 MB
Most books (and there are usually two or three new ones a year) on the airline industry treat it as a single entity, describing the effects of deregulation or strikes or fluctuating oil prices. Or else these books profile a specific airline, personifying it by its controversial or flamboyant owner or CEO. Petzinger, though, combines both approaches. He portrays the airline industry as a boy's club run by only a handful of egotistical, ambitious, and arrogant men. Petzinger, once a baggage handler for United Airlines and now Wall Street Journal reporter and editor, colorfully chronicles the changing alliances and enmities of these men as they battle to "win at any cost" and change the way the world travels.