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Airline Hub: Airport, Spoke- hub distribution paradigm, Direct flight, Air travel, Cargo airline, Focus city, Dubai International Airport, Emirates , Dublin Airport, Aer Lingus, Depeaking

Product DescriptionAn airline hub is an airport that an airline uses as a transfer point to get passengers to their intended destination. It is part of a hub and spoke model, where travelers moving between airports not served by direct flights change planes en route to their destinations. Many hubs of the airlines are also [...]

May 28, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Solo to the Top of the World: Gus McLeod’s Daring Record Flight

Product DescriptionA modern trailblazer conquers one of the last aviation records in this harrowing, hilarious, and stirring adventure On April 17, 2000, Gus McLeod circled the geographic North Pole in a 60-year-old, open-cockpit biplane, a goal that had eluded aviation pioneers for a century, and the climax of a two-year odyssey of harrowing physical, mechanical, [...]

May 20, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post

Air travel and charter flight handbook;: A consumer’s guide to air travel

May 17, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

The Perfect Flight

Product DescriptionThere is much more to flying than just manual skills–and therein lies the fun. In a book filled with anecdotal information and sound advice, Collins encourages pilots at all levels to strive for excellence in every phase of flight, to ensure a safer and more enjoyable experience. Hard cover, 215 pages, indexed.

May 11, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Eighth Passenger: A Flight of Recollection & Discovery

Product DescriptionIn 1944, the author, and six other young men were brought together by chance to run bombing raids over Germany for Bomber Command. There was ‘Mike’ (the author), Ray, George, ‘Dig’, Paul, Les and Harry. When statistically, nearly half the aircrew men of the RAF Bomber Command were killed in action, it is no [...]

May 11, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Achieving Comfortable Flight – Taking the Anxiety out of Airline Travel

May 7, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Flight Of The Gin Fizz: Midlife At 4,500 Feet

Product DescriptionThe author recounts how he turned around a middle-age crisis by learning to fly, a skill he put to the test in a reenactment of the first coast-to-coast flight, a journey of self-discovery. National ad/promo. Tour.”

April 29, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post

Flight Catering, Second Edition

Product DescriptionThe airline industry is a vast international business that is central to world economies. In today’s environment, it faces many challenges and a tight operational strategy is vital to survive. In-flight catering is a central part of these strategies at all levels: be they customer satisfaction, marketing, operations or logistics. Fully endorsed by the [...]

April 24, 2010 | 1 comment | View Post

Flying High With A Frank Steward: More Air Travel Tales From the Flight Crew

Product DescriptionOne of today’s most popular travel columnists advises travelers on surviving the challenges of airports, security, planes, and fellow passengers. Includes dozens of stories about air travel that reveal the human side of what really goes on in the air. Packed with stories about the crazy, humorous, and sad events that happen to passengers [...]

April 22, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post

EASTBOUND: Our Flight – Our Mission

Product Description“All private flyers have their dreams. Ours was to circle the world under our own power and navigation . We’d thought about it, talked about it, knew we could do it and one day would. It was only a matter of under what circumstances and when. What we never anticipated, not in our wildest [...]

April 19, 2010 | 1 comment | View Post
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