The Airline Industry and African-Americans

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses two problems that the airline industry faces: the lack of representation of African-Americans within the air industry and the shrinking overall outlook for the industry as a whole. The author stresses that the airline industry must turn to groups representing minority interests within the industry, such as the Organization of Black Airline Pilots (OBAP), which remains committed to increasing the representation of blacks in all spheres of the aviation industry, federal and commercial, and in management as well. The paper suggests that, even though there are objections, greater government intervention may be necessary to re-regulate the industry by instituting price controls, rationing fuel at airports, controlling the airports, and bringing in the Equal Opportunity Commission.

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Introduction and Project Objectives
Methodology for Addressing Problem
Strategy for Obtaining Input and Support
Project Plan with Timelines and Deliverables

From the Paper:

"In the past, "Fly the friendly skies," the famous and infamous Delta Airlines advertisement used to proclaim to viewers everywhere. But friendly to whom, African American job seekers and consumers could have demanded of the smiling Delta personnel on the ground and in the air, as depicted in the ads when they first ran in the 1970s and 1980s. The customers and the airline personnel alike in the advertisements were largely white, middle-class, and homogeneous in their appearances and depicted lifestyles. If women appeared in these ads in a professional capacity, they appeared as smiling and attractive stewardesses. This was, sadly reflective of the real-life airline industry in general at the time."

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