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Soft Landing: Airline Industry Strategy, Service, and Safety by

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Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Part 1: The Past

Chapter 1: You Cannot Be Serious!

Chapter 2: The World’s Greatest Loss Leader

Chapter 3: The Airline Industry and the Globalization Paradox

Part 2: The Present

Chapter 4: Flying Cheap, Part 1

Chapter 5: Flying Cheap, Part 2

Chapter 6: The (D)evolution of Aviation Security and the Birth of the TSA

Chapter 7: Touching Your Junk and Viewing Your Cavity

Part 3: The Future

Chapter 8: Turbulence Ahead for Airline Unions and High-Paying Jobs

Chapter 9: The Future Is Now

Chapter 10: Infrastructure Spiffed?

Chapter 11: Flying in Our Future

Appendix A: GAO Report on Aviation Security

Index

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