CHARACTERS Airport by Arthur Hailey
MEL BAKERSFIELD GENERAL MANAGER OF LINCOLN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Is the main character around whom the book revolves. A man who is so dedicated to his work that his family do not see enough of him, and his wife, fed up with her own lack of fulfillment, demands a divorce.
KEITH BAKERSFIELD AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER is a man who is talented and good at his work but who suffers from intolerable work-related stress. The year before, a small mistake on his part indirectly cost the lives of several people and because he cannot bear the guilt that this causes him, he is driven towards suicide. The book shows how difficult it is to be an air traffic controller and how only a small number of people can do it.
TANYA LIVINGSTON A PASSENGER RELATIONS OFFICER She's Mel's love interest. She works for Trans America Airlines, and Mel often visits her. She was deserted by her husband, and has a daughter with him. Though there are rumors of her bedding Mel, however, those are untrue.
GWEN MEIGHEN SENIOR TRANS AMERICA STEWARDESS ON FLIGHT TWO is Vernon's lover Before taking off, she reveals to him that she is pregnant. She is badly injured by the bomb set off by Guerrero, but survives.
JOE PATRONI HEAD OF MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS FOR TRANS WORLD AIRLINES (TWA) AT LINCOLN is tough and practical. He is drafted in by Bakersfeld to move the disabled aircraft blocking runway 30. He fights to do so under the aircraft's own power without damaging it. This is in spite of the emergency, which could require the airplane be pushed off by snow plows (which would destroy the aircraft).
D. O. GUERRERO is an increasingly psychologically-disturbed bankrupt building contractor, who is determined to find a way to solve his financial problems, regardless of what it will cost others. He builds a carry-on suitcase bomb that he takes onto Trans America Flight Two, "The Golden Argosy", a Rome-bound Boeing 707, in the hope of providing an insurance-fraud death benefit to his wife. The bombing plot is foiled with the assistance of an elderly lady, Ada Quonsett, a habitual stowaway, whose help is enlisted by the flight crew.
VERNON DEMEREST SENIOR PILOT FOR TRANS AMERICA AIRLINES is pompous and self-confident brother-in-law to Bakersfeld He opposes him on a number of issues of policy. Despite his overbearing attitude, he is an expert pilot who brings Flight Two home safely
ELIOTT FREEMANTLE LAWYER Lawyer with questionable ethics trying to bilk a local community that has been forever tormented by the literal din created by the airport, as a result of its proximity
ADA QUOSNETT A SENIOR CITIZEN AND A STOWAWAY
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