Welcome to Bryan Air, the podcast where we discuss the latest news and insights from the aviation industry. In this episode, we cover the following topics:🎧🌏

INTERNATIONAL AVIATION NEWS ✈️🎙

• Airbus 321 XLR faces range limitations after a design change

🔗https://samchui.com/2023/07/22/airbus-a321xlr-faces-range-limitations-after-design-tweak/

• Aircraft lessors set for June 2024 trial over Russia insurance claims

🔗https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/aircraft-lessors-set-june-2024-trial-over-russia-insurance-claims-2023-07-31/

• American Airlines pilot deal in jeopardy

🔗https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/american-airlines-pilot-deal-jeopardy-after-uniteds-contract-agreement-union-2023-07-18/

• Korean Air gets its own beer

🔗https://airwaysmag.com/korean-air-own-beer/

• Zuckerberg obtains student pilot license

🔗https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/zuckerberg-obtains-student-pilot-certificate/

AVIATION SAFETY⛑️

• Indian regulator fines IndiGo $36000 for tail strike incidents

🔗https://simpleflying.com/indigo-fined-for-tail-strike-incidents/

• Investigation launched after 4 fatalities in 2 air accidents in Oshkosh

🔗https://simpleflying.com/investigation-4-fatalities-2-air-accidents-in-oshkosh/

AFRICAN AVIATION NEWS 🌍

• Cathay returns to Johannesburg - it took them long enough.

🔗https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3229363/hong-kong-airport-cant-cope-manpower-crunch-means-delays-travellers-carriers-cant-add-flights

• Airlink lose their 50M USD claim against SAA

🔗https://airinsight.com/airlink-shrugs-off-upset-in-50-million-claim-against-saa/

• Fancy being an SAA skipper?

🔗https://flysaa.internal.erecruit.co/candidateapp/Jobs/View/SAA230711-1

• Kenya Airways to ditch its Embraer and Bombardier aircraft

🔗https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/corporate/shipping-logistics/kq-to-ditch-embraer-bombardier-jets--4290830

• NCAA has suspended all 737 Aircraft in the Max Air fleet

🔗https://allafrica.com/stories/202307130351.html

BRYAN AIR ADVISORY 🤖

The five why's - The "5 Why's" refer to the practice of asking, five times, why the situation has occurred in order to get to the root cause(s) of the problem. It illustrates the importance of digging down beneath the most obvious cause of the problem.

I asked Ryan why we do the podcast - the answers we both got are personal and slightly different but interestingly enough when we asked the same question about why we are doing this job as opposed to our old job of being an airline pilot we got to the same answer to the question of why do we do the podcast.

I heard this on Chris Williamson's Modern Wisdom podcast this past week

Problem: One of the monuments in Washington D.C. is deteriorating.

Why #1 – Why is the monument deteriorating?

• Because harsh chemicals are frequently used to clean the monument.

Why #2 – Why are harsh chemicals needed?

• To clean off the large number of bird droppings on the monument.

Why #3 – Why are there a large number of bird droppings on the monument?

• Because the large population of spiders in and around the monument are a food source to the local birds

Why #4 – Why is there a large population of spiders in and around the monument?

• Because vast swarms of insects, on which the spiders feed, are drawn to the monument at dusk.

Why #5 – Why are swarms of insects drawn to the monument at dusk?

• Because the lighting of the monument in the evening attracts the local insects.

Solution: Change how the monument is illuminated in the evening to prevent attraction of swarming insects.

WHILE WE WERE AWAY 📅

• Dricus DuPlessis - you legend

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