Ground issues grounding a plane is harder than you'd think to explain, but very much at the center of the latest 737 MAX drama.

Also in this episode:

* United Airlines confirms it will take some MAX 8s* Delta Air Lines adds Dubrovnik for this summer, as well as Premium Select retrofits on A330/763s, but isn't combining the two yet* Avelo picks New Haven for its first east coast hub* Bernard Ziegler, who basically invented fly-by-wire for Airbus, died* So did Helmut Jahn, the architect responsible for the UA terminal in ORD and the new BKK.* Air Senegal plans flights to JFK/IAD later this year* Kid went into the baggage system at MSP* UK green list of places people can't visit* EASA tracks space weather, too

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* Breeze to hire non-college kid FAs

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