Books with title Airport

This is a fictional story-fast paced, exciting, richly textured with memorable characters. Lincoln International Airport calls itself boastfully: Aviation Crossroads of the World. Yet those with inside knowledge are aware of grave deficiencies. Operational areas are outmoded to the point of danger; air traffic control is overtaxed; the supposedly-modern glass and chrome main terminal has become a whited sepulcher. Against this background is set a dramatic, behind-scenes story of seven eventful airport hours during a mid-winter snowstorm, and of the men and women-with pressures, passions and problems of their own. You will meet: Joe Patroni, cocky and genial airline maintenance chief, striving to clear a disabled aircraft from an urgently needed runway; Air Traffic Controller Keith Bakersjeld, suffering stress, and conscience stricken by the memory of an air disaster for which he was responsible; Tanya Livingston, passenger relations agent whose suspicions, triggered by a sharp-eyed Customs Inspector, reveal an unsuspected crisis; Captain Vernon Demerest, arrogant, admired by women, and despising "ground bound penguins," especially Airport Commissioners; Elliot Free mantle, crusading lawyer, leading a group of home owners incensed by airport noise; Ada Quonsett, a prim old lady who explains her so-easy techniques as an aerial stowaway; D. O. Guerrero, a psychotic with a homemade bomb ... and many others. Arthur Hailey has employed the same multi-plot technique which he used so successfully in Hotel and The Final Diagnosis. And, as usual, he has written an engrossing, enjoyable tale, packed with little-known and fascinating information: How, for example, smugglers trip themselves up with Customs; the way in which stewardess pregnancy programs work; what is an airport "Conga Line;" how much an airline will pay on the spot for a damaged luggage claim; and why airport insurance booths are hated by airline pilots ... But the true-hero of this novel is the Airport.

As the world becomes more of a global community, air travel between states and countries is commonplace. Airports are playing an increasingly integral part of infrastructure in the United States and around the world. Through accessible text, readers travel to a time when airplanes landed on grassy fields, then move through the years to futuristic terminals featuring innovative technology. This captivating book takes a closer look at the airport industry and what it takes to operate millions of people in transit, featuring real-life examples, full-color photographs, and high-interest fact boxes.

During the final years of the Soviet Union, the government started building an ultra-secret airbase in the center of a vast wilderness. Its secrecy outstripped its management such that construction continued despite its abandonment. Occasionally, an errant aircraft drops somebody on its tarmac, and they are never seen alive again.At the end of a late night international flight from India to Russia, a weary traveler finds himself deposited in a lonely gate of an empty terminal. As he navigates its endless gates and corridors, the hapless traveler begins to realize he has landed in no ordinary airport.

From traffic control to customs hall, from the airport manager's office to lay-over apartments in "stewardesses' row", an ordinary airport is filled with men and women whose private pressures and passions match the fury of the blizzard that sweeps across the runways outside. A blocked runway, a suicide, picketing, an aerial stowaway, pregnancy, smuggling, mass demonstrations and a psychotic with a home-made bomb turn the lives of all those in the airport upside down, as they unknowingly wait for a shocking climax.

1965 Doubleday hardcover, Arthur Hailey (The Moneychangers). As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination. Over the course of seven pulse-pounding hours, a tense human drama plays out as a brilliant airport manager, an arrogant pilot, a tough maintenance man, and a beautiful stewardess strive to avert disaster.

With dozens of flaps to lift and lots of information to uncover, there’s plenty to see in this bustling airport-themed book. From the excitement and commotion of check-in to the runway where dozens of planes await take off, you can learn all about the terminal. There’s a paper plane to spot in every scene, a jet-setting family to find and a gatefold finale.

In a raging blizzard, a stricken aeroplane is struggling against all odds to reach its destination. For seven suspense-filled hours a blocked runway, a suicide, a mass demonstration, a stowaway, a pregnancy and a psychotic with a home-made bomb, bring the plot to a shattering conclusion. Airport is a bestselling 1968 novel by Arthur Hailey about a large metropolitan airport and the personalities of the people who use, rely and suffer from its operation. This book was adapted into a major motion picture starring Burt Lancaster, George Kennedy, Dean Martin and Van Heflin, among others and inspired three sequels: Airport 1975, Airport '77 and The Concorde ... Airport '79. Arthur Hailey was a British/Canadian novelist, whose works have sold more than 170 million copies in 40 languages. Most of the novels are set within one major industry, such as hotels, banks or airlines, and explore the particular human conflicts sparked-off by that environment. They are notable for their plain style,