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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Southwest Airlines started with a simple idea, and managed to stick with it through decades of unprecedented growth. According to Colleen Barrett, customers return because they like the experience and they like the way they are treated. And how do you keep them satisfied? By keeping your employees satisfied. Barrett spends 70-80% of her time ensuring that her employees are valued as people, and encouraged to do the right thing rather than doing things...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An examination of the airline industry reveals how airline executives are cutting costs and exposes how the U.S. government has conspired to place corporate interests above the interests of consumers, workers, the nation's economy, and the environment.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A commercial pilot describes her investigation into the events of September 11 after feeling skeptical about the 9/11 Commission report, relating how she learned that thousands of fellow pilots had improvised a defense plan that included suicide missions.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Collision Course traces the dramatic rise and fall of workplace cooperation at Eastern Airlines. In so doing, the film uncovers the deep-seated assumptions which underlie our culture of industrial relations and prevent us from breaking out of our industrial impasse. Collision Course begins in 1983 with Eastern hurtling towards bankruptcy, beset by years of labor-management hostility, high wage cuts, and a poor service record. An informative history...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An entertaining and fascinating memoir of "gifted storyteller" (People) Ann Hood's adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant. In 1978, in the tailwind of the Golden Age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world, Ann Hood joined their ranks. She carved chateaubriand in the first-class cabin, found romance on layovers in London and Lisbon, and walked more...
12) Heroes of 9/11
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ten stories of the first-responders who risked their lives on September 11, 2001.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This little-known WWII story introduces a renegade pilot whose personal mission to rescue his family from a POW camp changed modern air warfare forever. December 1941: Manila is invaded, and US citizen and Philippine Airlines manager, Pappy Gunn, is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home. So Gunn was miles away when the Japanese captured his wife and children, placing them in an internment camp where they...
Publisher
Boston Aviation Services
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Please Remove Your Shoes is a revealing documentary that exposes the sobering reality behind the Transportation Security Administration's carefully cultivated image. It is also the chilling story of six federal security agents whose relentless efforts to report flaws in the system were thwarted and undermined by top managers at every turn. Now they're counting on you. Please Remove Your Shoes examines the period before 9/11 and the current situation...
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