Airlines
The canonical value-destroying industry: high fixed costs, commodity pricing and a century of bankruptcies since deregulation.
8 books
Start here
- Hard LandingThomas Petzinger Jr., 1995
- Flying BlindPeter Robison, 2021
- The Airline BusinessRigas Doganis, 2005
Books 8
T1 Hard Landing
Thomas Petzinger Jr. · 1995 · The standard narrative history of US airline deregulation.
John Newhouse · 1982 · The economics of betting a company on each new airframe.
T2 Flying Blind
Peter Robison · 2021 · Boeing's 737 MAX as a study in cost culture displacing engineering.
T3 Nuts!
Kevin Freiberg, Jackie Freiberg · 1996 · Southwest Airlines and the low-cost operating model.
Rigas Doganis · 2005 · The standard academic text on airline economics.