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Product Identifiers

PublisherHi-Story Press The Limited, T.H.E.

ISBN-100752454994

ISBN-139780752454993

eBay Product ID (ePID)102925955

Product Key Features

Book TitleBritain's Airlines Volume Three Vol. 3 : 1964 to Deregulation

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAviation / General, Aviation / History, Aviation / Commercial, Europe / Great Britain / General, Aeronautics & Astronautics

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenreTransportation, Technology & Engineering, History

AuthorGuy Halford Macleod

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight27.1 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal387.706541

SynopsisThe third in Guy Halford-MacLeod's series on the history of independent airlines in Britain after the Second World War, battling against ever-changing government policies, this well-organized book takes us from Harold Wilson's first administration through the Thatcher years, to the surprising acceptance of Open Skies within the European Community. Britain's Airlines focuses on the airlines, their managers, the aircraft they flew, and the conditions they contended with for survival. Guy Halford-MacLeod explains how the airlines made and remade themselves, ducking and diving in a slippery and difficult ring; and records the exploits of some well-known heavy-weights, Freddie Laker, Lord King, and Richard Branson. There are unfamiliar slants on the stories of the time, and this book offers both structure and expert analysis of the complex issues which faced the airlines and their regulators., The third in Guy Halford-MacLeod's series on the history of independent airlines in Britain after the Second World War, battling against ever-changing government policies, this well-organized book takes us from Harold Wilson's first administration through the Thatcher years, to the surprising acceptance of Open Skies within the European Community. Britain's Airlines focuses on the airlines, their managers, the aircraft they flew, and the conditions they contended with for survival.Guy Halford-MacLeod explains how the airlines made and remade themselves, ducking and diving in a slippery and difficult ring; and records the exploits of some well-known heavy-weights, Freddie Laker, Lord King, and Richard Branson. There are unfamiliar slants on the stories of the time, and this book offers both structure and expert analysis of the complex issues which faced the airlines and their regulators.", The third in this series on the history of British airlines since the Second World War, this volume starts with the return of Harold Wilson in 1964, and continues through the Thatcher years to deregulation in 1992. As the government, the state-owned airline corporations and the independent airlines all jostled for position in a demanding and unforgiving world, Guy Halford-MacLeod explains how the airlines made and remade themselves, ducking and diving in a slippery and difficult ring, and records the exploits of some well-known heavyweights, Harold Bamberg, Richard Branson and, of course, Freddie Laker. This readable book offers both structure and expert analysis of the dramatic events of the time: the collapse of Court Line; the rise and fall of Laker and his Skytrain; the protracted saga of the government's attempts to privatise British Airways; the demise of the 'second force' airline, British Caledonian; and the passing from the scene of a few favourites, like Air Europe, British Eagle, BUA and Dan-Air. The book concludes with a chapter that tells what happened to the players, new and old, as they tried to adapt to the new freedoms that deregulation gave them.

LC Classification NumberHE9843.A35