Kyle Harrison
to-read
Hard Landing
Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
- Author
- Thomas Petzinger Jr.
- Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 525
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Petzinger’s history of American airline deregulation — the carriers, the hub-and-spoke build-out, and the price wars that followed, told through the executives who fought them.
Where I saw it: In the reply thread to @WillManidis’s question, “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (June 2, 2025) — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand and saved to his Apple Note “Books To Read”; the full set of replies lives on what is the single best book… (tweet). It was listed there as “Hard Landing”.
Connections
- Competition — The book is a study of one industry competing itself to zero.
- Regulation — Deregulation is the event the whole book turns on.
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.