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Grounded: How to Solve the Aviation Crisis
Grounded: How to Solve the Aviation Crisis
Responding to the question, what does the future look like for aviation?, the authors dig into every aspect of the airline industry. In a highly readable, accessible to all book, they look at the financial fundamentals of aviation, how closely it is tied to the federal government, whether automation has gone too far, how to make the traveling public feel genuinely safe, how the industry can adapt to a fast changing, post-pandemic world and how the 737 MAX fiasco happened and could easily happen again on another state of the art aircraft.
With hundreds of interviews from across government and the industry Malmquist and Rapoport put together a unique set of insights into how the airlines got into this crisis point and how they can map a path out of it. Of interest to anyone who flies or has a fear of flying, this provocative and authoritative book challenges what you thought you knew and provides a unique perspective on the future.
Following on from their highly respected book Angle of Attack The future of Aviation Safety pilot Capt Shem Malmquist and aviation journalist Roger Rapoport take on the fundamentals of the airline industry and give their own unique perspective on what happened with the 737 MAX.
As the 737 MAX is about to be cleared for take off again they investigate:
whether the airline industry can map out a profitable future existence.
how to address the public’s safety concerns following the 737 MAX crashes.
whether and how people will be comfortable flying in a pandemic and post-pandemic world.
what should the relationship be between the FAA, the federal government and the airlines.
how automation needs to be addressed so that there is a safe balance between computers and humans in aviation and beyond.
if the bailout and future bailouts are as essential as the 2009 bank bailouts
how a carbon heavy industry can adapt to a greener future
and whether the zoom-culture of 2020 will permanently decimate the number of business travelers.