Airport

by Arthur Hailey

Book Overview

1968 1st edition, hardcover. Tight straight spine! Pages, and boards in overall excellent condition with only light wear to boards in spots. Dustjacket in overall good condition - with some... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038504139X
• ISBN13: 9780385041393
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 440 Pages

Customer Reviews

Bring Your Boarding Pass

Called a potboiler in its time: Sex, sin, stowaways and a mad bomber, all crammed into one long night at a 1970s snowbound airport stands the test of time. Hailey's meticulous attention to detail with regard to every aspect of the story including the inner workings of an international airport under stress in that decade demand the reader's attention. The plot revolves around a beleaguered airport manager juggling a failing marriage and a crisis on location, his arrogant and philandering pilot brother in law, an out of work man teetering over into desperation and how their paths cross on one dangerous night. Absorbing and thrilling, even after all this time.

Airport

When a terrifying crisis erupts--stranding a snowbound airport in a blizzard of pressure, passion and peril--the key to life and death rests in the hands of one of four people: a tough troubleshooter, an arrogant pilot, a beautiful stewardess, or a brilliant airport manager. Airport is a great book. Arthur Hailey knows how to get things going! This is one to look up!

A gripping, thrilling, very enjoyable read

I found this book by chance and wasn't sure whether it would be worth reading. I decided to give it a try... Soon, I was caught up in the book. I just couldn't put it down, I was so eager to find out what would happen next. The book takes you behind the scenes in an airport in the 1970's and shows you all the things you normally don't get to see or even hear about. You get to a point where you care about the characters, and it's important to find out what happens to them... All in all, I really recommend this book, it's definitely worth reading.

Discovery channel realism combined with soap opera drama!

This book is excellent, worth going out and finding a used copy. Hailey combines the real life excitement of an airport with believable characters. Best of all, it's an accurate, behind the scenes view of what really goes on at an airport in a disaster situation. (at least it was in 1970)

You'll find your pulse racing

Arthur Hailey has compiled his thoughts of the disasters that can occur at an international airport and about the people who deal with it behind the scenes, for most of us who will never even come close to a similar scenario. It's an amazing way of getting one's dream close to reality.