Airlines for the Rest of us: The Rise and Fall of America'S Local Service Airlines [Audiobook] download free by Stan Solomon
- Listen audiobook: Airlines for the Rest of us: The Rise and Fall of America'S Local Service Airlines
- Author: Stan Solomon
- Release date: 2008/6/1
- Publisher: IUNIVERSE
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780595484430
- Rating: 9.77 of 10
- Votes: 72
- Review by: Taliyah Weatherford
- Review rating: 9.2 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/29
- Duration: 2H6M17S in 256 kbps (33.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, OPUS, WAV, WMA, Apple Lossless, AIFF, MP3, MPEG4 (compression ZIP, LZ, RAR, TAR.GZ, EML, BZ2)
- Total pages original book: 168
- Includes a PDF summary of 13 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 9M24S (2.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 'Small Cities 'to be Hurt Tremendously' by Airline Cuts' 'Airline Subsidy Cuts Leave Three Towns Flightless' 'No Convenient Route to Buffalo' -actual newspaper headlines, 2007-08 It 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Transport Industries, Aircraft
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.40 USD
- Dimensions: 149.86x223.52x17.78mm
- Weight: 249.47g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Bloomington IN, United States
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