Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People

1.      Introduction

1.1  Skyward

1.2  From aeromobilities to airportness

1.3  From airborne to air-born: Cloud People

1.4  The Airworld as a methodology

2.      The Airworld as an In-Between Space

2.1  Urban center versus airport periphery

2.3  Globalizing the local

2.4  Crossing(s) from the micro-world to the meta-world

3.      Time Out of Control

3.1 The ever-present and unrelenting burden of time

3.2 Crystallized waiting time

4.      Luxury in the Sky with More than Diamonds

4.1 Luxury as an air travel brand

4.2 Semiotics of luxury

4.3 Fashion and the eroticization of the air cabin crew

5.      Cloud People: Identities and Paradoxes

5.1 Airworld personnel

5.2 The fluid passenger

5.3 The vulnerable passenger

6.      Connections, Disconnections, and Reconnections

6.1 Airborne families and relationships

6.2 Chance encounters and existential turning points

6.3 Love out of the blue

7.      Coda: Flying Over