Mid-January means a trip to Europe for the crew, with creative flight

routings and adventures along the way. This year the trip brings us to Zagreb,

Croatia.

Also in this episode:

* Norwegian is slashing crew bases and a few benefits as it tries to shore up

its expenses. Can the company survive?* Avianca Brazil is fighting to keep control of 10 aircraft that lessor GECAS

wants to reclaim* United Airlines beat analyst

earnings estimates for 2018 and showed a bit of sass in celebrating that

accomplishment* A guy in China made his own A320. For real. * Marriott renamed its loyalty program to "Bonvoy" and there are

questions around how well that will age.* Air India is reportedly dropping first class service. Hardly enough to save

that operation, but maybe it'll help?* Who is buying food for TSA and ATC employees while they're not being paid by the US

government? Seemingly everyone!

And, as always, plenty more rambling, tangents and anecdotes. Oh, and a beer

tasting live in this episode. The best part of that is Seth trying to say the names of

the different brands.