Low-Cost Aviation: Aeromobilities Culture, Politics, and Infrastructures covers critical societal issues such as labor regimes, unequal and changing flying publics, transnational dynamics of migration, tourism, business experiences, environmental challenges and shifting territorialities of LCCs at various scales. It situates LCCs holistically within a societal-infrastructural regime rather than solely within a transport context. The book explores the changing nature of passengers’ profiles and mobile cultures, new consumption patterns and Economic Re-Configurations, as well as geopolitical and sustainability challenges. Providing a research agenda for aeromobilities, the book examines the most pressing social, cultural and political impacts of LCCs on society in different global contexts.It bridges transport and mobility studies, fostering transport sustainability and mobility justice to improve air transport management.
1. Introduction – Low-cost aviation - p. 1 2. Part One: Low-cost carriers' strategies of expansion: challenging dynamics for society and place - p. 16 3. 2. Between unsupported assertions and black boxes: highlighting gaps in knowledge on low-cost air travel - p. 19 4. 3. Ultra-low-cost carrier network volatility in Europe: unlocking and disconnecting regions - p. 35 5. 4. Low-cost aviation in China: its history and its changing context - p. 51 6. Part Two: Changing landscapes, discourses, and experiences of low-cost air travel - p. 68 7. 5. The development of Southeast Asia's low-cost aviation industry - p. 71 8. 6. Cultures of flying and low-cost carriers in Southern Africa: accessible air travel for all? - p. 83 9. 7. Cheap flights from major hubs: aeromobile experiences of in-betweenness - p. 99 10. Part Three: Low-fare passengers' identities and diversities - p. 117 11. 8. Staying connected: low cost airlines in the lives of Polish migrants - p. 121 12. 9. High class, low fares: diplomatic aeromobility and low-cost carriers - p. 135 13. Part Four: Airborne sensibilities of low-cost air travel - p. 147 14. 10. Disruptive passenger behavior onboard low-cost carrier aircraft: the issue of air rage - p. 151 15. 11. Meaningful routes—how low-cost flying affects our being in place - p. 167 16. Part Five: The ecological disjunctures of flying on the cheap - p. 177 17. 12. Environmental sustainability challenges to low-cost aeromobilities - p. 181 18. 13. Calibrating Consumption: Flyers' Dilemmas in the Age of the Low-Cost Carrier - p. 195 19. 14. “Getting the summer you deserve”: locking-in flying to the tourist experience - p. 213 20. 15. Epilogue: whither low-cost aviation - p. 233 21. Index - p. 243
Low-Cost Aviation: Aeromobilities Culture, Politics, and Infrastructures covers critical societal issues such as labor regimes, unequal and changing flying publics, transnational dynamics of migration, tourism, business experiences, environmental challenges and shifting territorialities of LCCs at various scales. It situates LCCs holistically within a societal-infrastructural regime rather than solely within a transport context. The book explores the changing nature of passengers’ profiles and mobile cultures, new consumption patterns and Economic Re-Configurations, as well as geopolitical and sustainability challenges. Providing a research agenda for aeromobilities, the book examines the most pressing social, cultural and political impacts of LCCs on society in different global contexts.It bridges transport and mobility studies, fostering transport sustainability and mobility justice to improve air transport management.
1. Introduction – Low-cost aviation - p. 1 2. Part One: Low-cost carriers' strategies of expansion: challenging dynamics for society and place - p. 16 3. 2. Between unsupported assertions and black boxes: highlighting gaps in knowledge on low-cost air travel - p. 19 4. 3. Ultra-low-cost carrier network volatility in Europe: unlocking and disconnecting regions - p. 35 5. 4. Low-cost aviation in China: its history and its changing context - p. 51 6. Part Two: Changing landscapes, discourses, and experiences of low-cost air travel - p. 68 7. 5. The development of Southeast Asia's low-cost aviation industry - p. 71 8. 6. Cultures of flying and low-cost carriers in Southern Africa: accessible air travel for all? - p. 83 9. 7. Cheap flights from major hubs: aeromobile experiences of in-betweenness - p. 99 10. Part Three: Low-fare passengers' identities and diversities - p. 117 11. 8. Staying connected: low cost airlines in the lives of Polish migrants - p. 121 12. 9. High class, low fares: diplomatic aeromobility and low-cost carriers - p. 135 13. Part Four: Airborne sensibilities of low-cost air travel - p. 147 14. 10. Disruptive passenger behavior onboard low-cost carrier aircraft: the issue of air rage - p. 151 15. 11. Meaningful routes—how low-cost flying affects our being in place - p. 167 16. Part Five: The ecological disjunctures of flying on the cheap - p. 177 17. 12. Environmental sustainability challenges to low-cost aeromobilities - p. 181 18. 13. Calibrating Consumption: Flyers' Dilemmas in the Age of the Low-Cost Carrier - p. 195 19. 14. “Getting the summer you deserve”: locking-in flying to the tourist experience - p. 213 20. 15. Epilogue: whither low-cost aviation - p. 233 21. Index - p. 243
