Attention All Passengers: The Airlines' Dangerous Descent—And How To Reclaim Our Skies (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Everyone who flies, ever, should read this book. Consumers need to be more informed about the insane practices that are now the status quo for the airlines. We should be much less enraged about $10 snack boxes and less legroom, and much more enraged by an ineffectual TSA and outsourced aircraft maintenance with no FAA oversight.One thing the author could have touched on more was the fact that many of the issues he talks about only affect us peon travelers. Corporate execs get to fly chartered, private jets that are outside of many of the policies he discusses. Nonetheless, I give this book 5 stars for so thoroughly exposing so much about commercial aviation that we, as passengers and citizens, should know. I want to give this book 3.5 stars. It's interesting and informative, but way too sympathetic to whiny airline employees. The maintenance issues it raises are scary indeed. It bugged me how he dumped all over greedy airline CEO fatcats, which they deserve, but said nary a pejorative word regarding James Hoffa Jr.'s office with a view in DC. The Lord may love a working man, but the working man's union dues pay for lunches at Charlie Palmer Steak. Where's the journalist's gimlet eye for that outrage?All in all, though, a well-thought out book that deserves a read. The only airline I will fly nowadays in Southwest, and I notice they get the least of his vitriol.
What do You think about Attention All Passengers: The Airlines' Dangerous Descent—And How To Reclaim Our Skies (2012)?
Pretty Eye Opening. Too much corporate greed in the world, that is for sure.
—mfatehi
This was a boring read and I didn't make it very far before giving up.
—bansk
What will happen to me if I bring this book on a plane?
—tatstaya
