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Product Description: In total passenger miles, air travel has never been more popular. But as any frequent flyer knows, air travel problems are growing even faster long lines, lost luggage, overbooking, flight delays, and serious safety issues. And instead of doing something about it, the traveling public seems simply to be sitting down, buckling in, and allowing itself to be treated like sheep...read more

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9781563479496 | Amer Inst of Aeronautics &, June 30, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In total passenger miles, air travel has never been more popular.

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Bringing together elements of geology, natural history, geography, and human history, a collection of captioned aerial photographs tour the United States, identifying the features that airline passengers will see from the air, with essays interpreting these visible features along a flight corridor with photographs sequenced to follow a trip from takeoff to landing. Original.

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9780618706037 | Pap/cdr edition (Houghton Mifflin, December 14, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Bringing together elements of geology, natural history, geography, and human history, a collection of captioned aerial photographs tour the United States, identifying the features that airline passengers will see from the air, with essays interpreting these visible features along a flight corridor with photographs sequenced to follow a trip from takeoff to landing.

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Discusses the current state of air travel security and looks at such topics as bomb detection devices, passenger profiling, and the role of air marshals.

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9781591020745 | Prometheus Books, May 1, 2003, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Discusses the current state of air travel security and looks at such topics as bomb detection devices, passenger profiling, and the role of air marshals.

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Product Description: The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes full and funneling traffic through a centralized hub-and-spoke routing system...read more

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9781586481407 | Public Affairs, September 4, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era.

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Product Description: With the airline industry under siege: A prescient analysis of its problems and an engaging look into its future-as well as a thought-provoking account of the challenges of entrepreneurship in the dot-com age-by the well-known Atlantic Monthly writer and award-winning author of National Defense and Breaking the News...read more

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9781586480400 | Public Affairs, June 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: With the airline industry under siege: A prescient analysis of its problems and an engaging look into its future-as well as a thought-provoking account of the challenges of entrepreneurship in the dot-com age-by the well-known Atlantic Monthly writer and award-winning author of National Defense and Breaking the News.

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Product Description: This book is not just about air travel. It is about the emergent social world of flying. It concerns air space and behavior in the air the way someone else might look at cities and street behavior. Economic, political, and cultural aspects are all considered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780742500280 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 1, 2000, cover price $118.00 | About this edition: This book is not just about air travel.

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9780742500297 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 1, 2000, cover price $32.00

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The best-selling author of Flight of the Intruder and Under Siege chronicles his three-month odyssey into the heart of America and his discoveries from the cockpit of a vintage 1942 Stearman biplane. Reprint.

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9780671038496 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, August 1, 1999), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his three-month, forty-eight-state flight into the heart of America in a 1942 Stearman bi-plane, describing the panorama of forests, mountains, rivers, and valleys beneath him
9780671748852 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, April 1, 1994), cover price $6.50 | About this edition: The author recounts his three-month, forty-eight-state flight into the heart of America in a 1942 Stearman bi-plane, describing the panorama of forests, mountains, rivers, and valleys beneath him

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Featuring new, updated information, a paperback edition of a best-seller by the outspoken former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation offers readers the vital information they need to travel more safely by air. Reprint.

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9780380793303 | New upd edition (Avon Books, April 1, 1998), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Examines airline safety issues and tells how to choose the safest flights

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Examines airline safety issues in light of recent disasters, and offers suggestions for choosing the safest flights

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9780380975327 | Avon Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Examines airline safety issues in light of recent disasters, and offers suggestions for choosing the safest flights

Explains the options provided in the frequent flyer programs by each American airline and hotel chain
By Randy Petersen (editor)

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9781882994021 | 4th edition (Airpress, July 1, 1996), cover price $14.99
9781882994014 | 3 edition (Natl Book Network, April 1, 1995), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Explains the options provided in the frequent flyer programs by each American airline and hotel chain

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Enticed by the small ribbon of sky she could see from her New York office window, a reporter for Newsweek, flies her small plane across the country on a summer trip of adventure and discovery

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9780671892081 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, July 1, 1994), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Enticed by the small ribbon of sky she could see from her New York office window, a reporter for Newsweek, flies her small plane across the country on a summer trip of adventure and discovery

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Enticed by the small ribbon of sky she could see from her New York office window, a reporter for Newsweek, flies her small plane across the country on a summer trip of adventure and discovery

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9780679400257 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 1, 1993), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Enticed by the small ribbon of sky she could see from her New York office window, a reporter for Newsweek, flies her small plane across the country on a summer trip of adventure and discovery

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The author of Flight of the Intruder recounts his three-month, forty-eight-state flight into the heart of America in a 1942 Stearman bi-plane, describing the panorama of forests, mountains, rivers, and valleys beneath him.

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9780671748845 | Pocket Books, June 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The author recounts his three-month, forty-eight-state flight into the heart of America in a 1942 Stearman bi-plane, describing the panorama of forests, mountains, rivers, and valleys beneath him

Product Description: Book by Crawford, Lela Ann, Crawford, William Roy

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9780914862307 | Military Living Pubns, January 1, 1992, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Book by Crawford, Lela Ann, Crawford, William Roy

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Discusses how to make the most of discount fares, bump tickets, frequent flyer programs, and other methods of lowering air fares and legitimately avoiding onerous airline restrictions

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9781557382177 | Probus Professional Pub, June 1, 1991, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Discusses how to make the most of discount fares, bump tickets, frequent flyer programs, and other methods of lowering air fares and legitimately avoiding onerous airline restrictions

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Illuminates a year in the author's life during which he traveled twenty-five thousand miles across America by plane and motorcycles, exploring the country's landscapes and people

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9780025947313 | Atheneum, October 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Illuminates a year in the author's life during which he traveled twenty-five thousand miles across America by plane and motorcycles, exploring the country's landscapes and people

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Explains the frequent traveler programs offered by airlines, hotels, and car rental companies, and includes tips on how to earn the best awards

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9780844295480 | Passport Books, March 1, 1987, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Explains the frequent traveler programs offered by airlines, hotels, and car rental companies, and includes tips on how to earn the best awards

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