Getting the Facts Straight
In compiling the information about the airline industry background information I used various tools. The resources used for finding the industry history are much different than the ones that you will use for finding on-going developments in the industry. This is mainly because of the time of information you are hoping to find vary in great degree. The techniques I utilized in this case were also different. The amount of time that you have to attend to these sites tends to be less in comparison to industry updates. I will provide you with which tools I found useful and which tools I recommend you avoid for efficiency reasons.
Tools
- Time Line: Through my research to find relevant information about the airline industry's history I used the general web search:
Primary sources: Stanford's overview of "The Airline Industry" and Duke's "Brief History of the U.S. Airline Industry". I used the query in Google "allintitle:airline industry history" and retrieved the Duke's library resource, which is very much credible since it is a university based site. Using simply "airline industry history" I retrieved a million results, but on the first page found the Stanford overview, similar to the Duke source it is based out of a university site.
- Video of History: In finding the video on the airline industry history I visited several sites including Truveo, Blinkx, and YouTube. Through my query of "airline industry history" I found YouTube to actually provide the most relevant results.
- Deregulation: This particular topic of the airline industry is very important to understand. I provided for you various tools that I believe you may find useful. In addition I listed tools to avoid.
Useful:
Mail listings:
- The Mail Archive: If you have a question about deregulation in the airline industry I would recommend visiting:
http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg56092.html
The Deep Web:
- Google Scholar: This gives good general overview of the deregulation in the airline industry. It is an academic journal.
- Scirus:
http://scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=deregulation+in+airlines&t=all&sort=0&g=s
- bNet:
http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?q=deregulation+in+airlines
Images:
- The chart that I provided came from Exalead with the query: “deregulation in airlines.” That is not the only useful image search resource. Throughout my report I used images from: Google Images and Flickr.
My CSE: located under the "Basics" tab.
Not useful:
- Web directory search: yahoo directory and DMOZ query: deregulation of airlines
- Yahoo Groups: there was actually two groups, with 5 members each, but there was only one post. Wasn’t very useful