Airport (novel)
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Airport (novel) is a 1968 bestselling aviation-themed thriller by Arthur Hailey that interweaves the personal and professional crises of airline and airport staff during a major winter storm.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Airport (novel) canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviation novel
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novel ⓘ thriller novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | Airport (1970 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Arthur Hailey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestsellerStatus | bestseller in the United States ⓘ |
| centralEvent |
aircraft bomb threat
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major winter snowstorm ⓘ |
| centralLocation |
air traffic control tower
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airport terminal ⓘ runways ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Doubleday design department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Wheels (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
aviation fiction
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disaster fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Cindy Bakersfeld
NERFINISHED
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Guerrero NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Patroni NERFINISHED ⓘ Mel Bakersfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Bakersfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanya Livingston NERFINISHED ⓘ Vernon Demerest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | over 400 pages ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
air traffic control
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aircraft maintenance ⓘ airline management ⓘ airport security ⓘ |
| inspirationFor | Airport film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
aviation industry operations
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personal relationships under stress ⓘ professional crisis management ⓘ |
| market | adult fiction ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person omniscient ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of airport operations
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influencing the disaster film genre ⓘ |
| originalLanguageTitle | Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The story follows airport and airline staff coping with a major winter storm and a bomb threat on a transatlantic flight. ⓘ |
| precededBy | Hotel (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1968 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setting |
Chicago
NERFINISHED
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Lincoln International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfEvents | one winter night and the following day ⓘ |
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