Day two of a trip to Europe always brings along some jet lag challenges. But we're trying our best.

Some terribly dorky jokes get us started this week, but eventually we manage to transition to terribly dorky conversations about airplanes, so that's mostly a win.

Sure, the conversations were great, but our plans for birthday festivities came up short.

Mergers generally reduce competition. Upstarts increase it. And somewhere in the middle, we like to talk about all of options.

Flight status. Travel history. Connection updates. And lots more. That's the promise from Flighty, and we've got founder Ryan Jones on this week's show to talk about it.

Hard to believe we're still saying this, but please stop being an asshole on airplanes. Or anywhere else, really. But definitely not on airplanes.

The lack of appeal, perhaps, is the most interesting part. But the CDC mask mandate for travel is gone, thanks to a court ruling in Florida.

Who is to blame? And does it matter when you finally admit that? Plenty of challenges in the industry these days and more flight cancellations are coming.

No squirrels were harmed in the making of this episode. And we cannot explain why that is even remotely relevant. But here we are anyways.

At some point "Plus" has to not be the default naming of whatever new thing a company comes up with, right? Alas, this is not that week.