Airport by Arthur Hailey

From traffic control to customs hall, from the airport manager’s office to lay-over apartments in “Stewardesses’ Row”, an ordinary airport is filled with men and women whose private pressures and passions match the fury of the blizzard that sweeps across the runways outside.

A blocked runway, a suicide, picketing, an aerial stowaway, pregnancy, smuggling, mass demonstrations and a psychotic with a home-made bomb turn the lives of all those in the airport upside down, as they unknowingly wait for a shocking climax.