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Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel. (Books in review: planes, trains, and air taxis). (book review)

American Prospect, The,  January, 2002  by Fingleton, Eamonn

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Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel By James Fallows. Public Affairs, 256 pages, $25.00 IF EVER THERE WERE A TIME FOR top-to-bottom reassessment of the U.S. transportation system, now is that time. James Fallows's Free Flight, published last summer, and Jim Motavalli's just-released Breaking Gridlock provide stimulating insights into the ways better technology and sensible planning might come together to improve methods of travel.

Fallows offers a forward-looking account of how technological innovation promises to transform the small-airplane industry. ...

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