the airline industry is a sector vital to the world's transportation and tourism infrastructure and has been in the throes of a life-and-death struggle between the so-called network or original,older companies and relatively new low-cost(LCCs) carriers.
the outcome of this battle will fundamentally change the in industry structure and product.
while travel by sea is ancient and railways were operational by the early nine-teenth century air transportation is relatively new.balloons and primitive gliders had preceded airplanes as flying machines,but these were lighter-than-air.