ABSTRACT

In the nearly 20 years since the publication of Geography and Air Transport by Brian Graham (1995), global air transport has grown considerably but also experienced several shocks which have significantly altered the industry and its operations, with concomitant effects on people and places throughout the world. The geographic patterns of global air transport activity have been changing as a reflection of economic, social, cultural, demographic and political dynamics as well as unprecedented challenges from financial, security, and environmental concerns. Through the contributions of a distinguished group of air transport scholars, this book has shed new light on the emerging geographies of air transport in the early twenty-first century.