The Passenger Experience of Air Travel

A Critical Approach

Edited by Jennie Small

Publication date:

14 October 2022

Publisher

Channel View Publications

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781845419028

Taking a critical approach to the air passenger experience, this book considers the representations, embodied practices and materialities of air travel. Concerned with the politics and social justice issues of travel and mobility, it examines the passenger and their experience of the airport, fellow passengers, flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, and response to the issue of air travel sustainability. It explores the diverse experiences of those with a disability or fear of flying. The volume brings the journey to the fore as a complex and meaningful experience, filling a gap in the social science research of tourist behaviour where, traditionally, the focus has been the destination experience. The book will be of interest to scholars from a range of social science disciplines and fields of study including tourism studies, mobility studies, cultural studies, and disability studies.

Contributors

Chapter 1. Jennie Small: Introduction

Chapter 2. Erwin Losekoot and Jennie Small: The Airport Experience

Chapter 3. Jennie Small: Passenger–Passenger Interaction

Chapter 4. Jennie Small: Flying and Appearance

Chapter 5. Simon Darcy, Jennie Small and Barbara Almond: Flying into Uncertainty: Part 1 – Flying with Mobility Disability

Chapter 6. Jennie Small, Alison McIntosh, Barbara Almond and Simon Darcy: Flying into Uncertainty: Part 2 – Flying with Non-Mobility Disabilities

Chapter 7. Jennie Small and Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten: Fear of Flying

Chapter 8. James Higham and Martin Young: The Flyers’ Dilemma: Confronting the Negative Psychological Effects of Air Passenger Travel

Chapter 9. Jennie Small: Epilogue

Index

As the first to discuss the lived experience of air passengers and, especially, their in-flight experience, this is a genuinely ground-breaking book. Given the centrality of air travel to modern mobilities, this collection will quickly become a key contribution to the new critical mobilities work focussed on power relations and inequalities.