Hard Landing
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Hard Landing
| Full title | Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos |
|---|---|
| Author | Thomas Petzinger Jr. |
| Published | 1995 |
| Pages | 525 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Thomas 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 heard about it
- Replies to @WillManidis — named in the replies to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, June 2025. Full list: what is the single best book… (tweet).
- On Patrick Collison’s Bookshelf — Patrick Collison’s catalog of the physical books he owns, where he flags this one as particularly great (green). Saved in Kyle’s April 19th, 2020 Roam daily note.
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.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.