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Attention All Passengers: The Airlines' Dangerous Descent—And How To Reclaim Our Skies (2012)

by William J. McGee(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062088378 (ISBN13: 9780062088376)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

HarperCollins

review 1: The book was ok. It has some interesting if not disturbing information about aviation safety. A lot of the issues (lax regulatory oversight and maintenance outsourcing) are reflective of general trends in the American/global economy. However, the author's bias is very apparent throughout the book as he was a former airline industry worker. He tends to blame greed for many of the problems which is misplaced. Do airline execs make out like bandits? Yes, but no more than in any other industry. At the end of the day, the economics don't work because the flying public demands bottom dollar airfares. The best quote was a flight attendant telling her friends who want better inflight service to stop surfing the web for the lowest fare.
review 2: Good. The author conclu... moredes: "I've come to see that the deepest problems facing the U.S. airline industry are the deepest problems facing the United States itself. These include the pervasive effects of corporate influence throughout all three branches of government; political gridlock; the ever-widening economic gap between corporate CEOs and rank-and-file workers; federal regulators failing to regulate the industries they are sworn to oversee; the wholesale outsourcing of decent jobs, particularly outside the United States; and a willful ignorance of how industry is affecting the environment." less

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