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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instanceOf aviation novel
novel
thriller novel
adaptedInto Airport (1970 film) NERFINISHED
author Arthur Hailey NERFINISHED
bestsellerStatus bestseller in the United States
centralEvent aircraft bomb threat
major winter snowstorm
centralLocation air traffic control tower
airport terminal
runways
countryOfOrigin Canada
coverArtist Doubleday design department NERFINISHED
followedBy Wheels (novel) NERFINISHED
genre aviation fiction
disaster fiction
thriller
hasCharacter Cindy Bakersfeld NERFINISHED
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
aircraft maintenance
airline management
airport security
inspirationFor Airport film series NERFINISHED
language English
mainTheme aviation industry operations
personal relationships under stress
professional crisis management
market adult fiction
mediaType print
narrativePerspective third-person omniscient
notableFor detailed depiction of airport operations
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
Lincoln International Airport NERFINISHED
settingPeriod 1960s
timeSpanOfEvents one winter night and the following day

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Airport (1970 film) basedOn Airport (novel)