REC 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pacific Southwest Airlines, Airline Deregulation Act, Flight Attendant
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Transportation can be considered tourism in itself. Passenger transportation: ex: cruises boats that take you place to place but it is also part of the. Role of transport in traveling: changes: Impact of transportation in traveling: sickness, greenhouse gases. Airplanes transport most the mass of people traveling: facilitators of growth: Plane capacity has increased in size: used to be only one or two people per plane but now we can seat hundreds of people per plane. Airline deregulation act (1978: government no longer had control on fares, routes, and market entry. Which made flights more affordable because prices could become competitive. Freedom of the air policy/open skies (1990s)- commercial aviation rights that allowed a country"s airline(s) the privilege to enter and land in another country"s airspace: this was important because this allowed more travel patterns. More mas movement: this is not a stable agreement and so it changes.
