Next Crash

L. Fraher Amy

Description

If you are one of over 700 million passengers who will fly in America this year, you need to read this book. The Next Crash offers a shocking perspective on the aviation industry by a former United Airlines pilot. Weaving insider knowledge with hundreds of employee interviews, Amy L. Fraher uncovers the story airline executives and government regulators would rather not tell. While the FAA claims "This is the golden age of safety," and other aviation researchers assure us the chance of dying in an airline accident is infinitesimal, The Next Crash reports that 70 percent of commercial pilots believe a major airline accident will happen soon. Who should we believe? As one captain explained, "Everybody wants their $99 ticket," but "you don't get [Captain] Sully for ninety-nine bucks." Drawing parallels between the 2008 financial industry implosion and the post-9/11 airline industry, The Next Crash explains how aviation industry risk management processes have not kept pace with a rapidly changing environment. To stay safe the system increasingly relies on the experience and professionalism of airline employees who are already stressed, fatigued, and working more while earning less. As one copilot reported, employees are so distracted "it's almost a miracle that there wasn't bent metal and dead people" at his airline. Although opinions like this are pervasive, for reasons discussed in this book, employees' issues do not concern the right people-namely airline executives, aviation industry regulators, politicians, watchdog groups, or even the flying public-in the right way often enough. In contrast to popular notions that airliner accidents are a thing of the past, Fraher makes clear America is entering a period of unprecedented aviation risk.

Sujets

• Industrial relations

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 13 mai 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780801470493
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

The Next Crash

The Next Crash

HowShort-TermProtSeeking TrumpsAirlineSafety

AmyL.Fraher

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Cover Photographs: Pilots picketing by Dan Nguyen; airplane © Thinkstockphotos.com

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Fraher, Amy Louise, author.  The next crash : how shortterm prot seeking trumps airline safety / Amy L. Fraher.  pages cm  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 9780801452857 (cloth : alk. paper)  1. AeronauticsUnited StatesSafety measuresFinance. 2. Aircraft accidentsUnited StatesPreventionFinance. 3. Airlines EmployeesSalaries, etc.United States. 4. AirlinesUnited States Finance. I. Title.  HE9803.A5F73 2014  363.12'4dc23 2013046809 Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetablebased, lowVOC inks and acidfree papers that are recycled, totally chlorinefree, or partly composed of nonwood bers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.

In memory of my brother Pete, an inspiration January19,1961June15,2013

Prologue:Falling

Contents

1.The(NotSo)SecretSecrets

2.TheRootsofTurbulence

3.RidingtheJetStream

4.ANewSolution:Deregulation

5.EscalatingRisks

6.StrappedInfortheRide

7. Airlines Today Epilogue

Acknowledgments

AppendixA:AirlinePilotQuestionnaireResults

AppendixB:AirlinePilotInterviewGuide

1 7 25 58 74

100 121 144 180

191 193 195

v i i i C o n t e n t s

Abbreviations Notes Index

197 199 221

The Next Crash