Attention All Passengers, William J. McGee
Attention All Passengers, William J. McGee
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Attention All Passengers
The Airlines' Dangerous Descent---and How to Reclaim Our Skies

Author: William J. McGee

Narrator: Greg Itzin

Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/26/2012

Synopsis

A Fast Food Nation for the airline industry, Attention All Passengers is a shocking and important exposé revealing the real state of the “friendly skies” in which we fly. Award-winning Consumer Reports travel journalist William McGee, a former editor of the Consumer Reports Travel Letter, spent nearly seven years in airline flight operations management, and what he learned was less than uplifting. From TSA power grabs and an endemic lack of oversight to legislative battles and lobbying boondoggles to antiquated flight patterns and outsourced maintenance workers, the airlines and the Government are in cahoots, conspiring to turn a profit any way they can, no matter who has to pay the price. A provocative and hard-hitting call to action, Attention All Passengers will explode all our previous misconceptions about the airline industry.

About William J. McGee

William J. McGee is an award-winning travel journalist for Consumer Reports and the former editor of Consumer Reports Travel Letter. In 2010 the U.S. secretary of transportation chose him as the lone consumer advocate on the Future of Aviation Advisory Committee. He also writes a monthly travel column for USAToday.com and has contributed to Condé Nast Traveler, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Money, New York, Parents, Good Housekeeping, and many other magazines, newspapers, websites, and blogs. Prior to becoming a journalist, McGee spent nearly seven years in airline flight operations management; he is an FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher and served in the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary. He earned an MFA from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Hofstra University. He lives in Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on January 31, 2013

I work on the outskirts of the airline industry and thereby already know bits of information about many of the topics McGee speaks of in this expose on the practices of the major domestic carriers. Corporate bashing is pretty trendy nowadays, so none of that came as a surprise, but the pieces regard......more

Goodreads review by Jay on June 21, 2012

I won this book through Goodreads “First Read” program and I would like to express my appreciation for having the opportunity to review it. It was a terrific read. A comprehensive review of the serious issues facing the US airline industry, the book does not pull any punches--it exposes the corrosive......more

Goodreads review by Kristen on June 25, 2012

I've flown a fair amount since 9-11. I've even flown with my elderly kitty, the one in my picture. My husband and I flew in early October 2011 - the tickets were cheap, cheap, cheap; as were my tickets to Paris and back in 2003. I was in Paris as the U.S. was bombing Baghdad, with the French people a......more

Goodreads review by Chien on January 18, 2013

The book was ok. It has some interesting if not disturbing information about aviation safety. A lot of the issues (lax regulatory oversight and maintenance outsourcing) are reflective of general trends in the American/global economy. However, the author's bias is very apparent throughout the book as......more

Goodreads review by Sherri on November 15, 2012

Very interesting book regarding the entire history of the airline industry in the US, this book really has the insider view of the industry. Beware that it is just exasperating to find out how the industry and oversight of the industry works.......more

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