Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel
by By Fallows, James M.
Category: Business & Economics , Industries , Hospitality, Travel & Tourism

Fallows, a correspondent for  Atlantic Monthly , explores future trends in commercial aviation technology that may make airline travel easier and quicker than the current hub system.  He focuses on three separate groups of innovators who are developing a NASA small plane research program, a small airplane with a parachute for the entire plane, and an inexpensive jet plane for air taxi services. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)