Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits that Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
About the book
Wall Street Journal reporter Thomas Petzinger Jr. tells how a dozen men, among them Frank Borman of Eastern, Richard Ferris of United and Robert Crandall of American Airlines, fought for control of the world's airlines. The account opens up the workings of the men's club that ran the major carriers, much as Den of Thieves did for Wall Street. It reads as a history of the airline business and a portrait of the jet age, and doubles as a primer in modern business practice. It was later reissued in an updated paperback edition.
Patrick Collison includes it on his Bookshelf page, and Appian chief executive Matt Calkins read it among several books while writing a board game about building an airline in the 1930s.
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Matt Calkins (CEO/Appian)
I grabbed a bunch of books because I was writing a board game on building an airline in the 1930s. The dependence on experienced labor, and thus the vulnerability to strikes; the dependence on the cost of fuel, an enormous input that fluctuates; and nationalism, the fact that nations subsidize their airlines—these factors make the airline industry so vulnerable.
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