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Doug and Drew are back from trips over the Pacific to Taipei and Honolulu. Our buddy Patrick returns to the show to talk about dragging aircraft around the airport and Drew around Oahu on a packed 2-day trip. We discuss:

• Getting to Taiwan around a typhoon
• Nonreving to Hawaii and back
• Questions on moving aircraft
• The government shutdown starts affecting ATC
• United announces 6 new routes for summer 2026
• Delta 3rd Quarter results
• Airplane maintenance checks
• Two perfect days on Oahu

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Drew has to check the runway after a bird strike report and Doug  is getting ready to go back to Taipei. We discuss:

• Passengers grabbing bags in emergencies
• No more PLAYtime 
• Lufthansa Group announces long-haul fleet plans
• Amsterdam backtracks on fee hikes
• Big, BIG news from Boeing
• Runway lights

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Doug is back from flying the 777 to Frankfurt and Drew finished his first week on PM shift in airport operations.  Fresh croissants from Germany, elevators out of service, runway inspections, and 767 crew resource management - this episode is packed!. We discuss:

• Winter schedule routes
• Spirit lays off 1,800 flight attendants
• The Embraer E2 gets more love - this time from LATAM
• Huge Boeing order from the Middle East
• EMAS saves an E145 in Roanoke, VA
• United upgrades their GUM service
• American and United have IT outages
• Bag cans on narrowbodies
• Listener comments

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Drew escorts a 737 and Doug is back from Zurich and New York. We discuss:

• The difference between the airport operations area and the movement area 
• Helping an AvGeek with trip routing
• An update on Southwest’s long-haul ambitions
• Delta/AeroMexico joint venture in jeopardy 
• Is the ultra low-cost airline model dead?

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Doug is back from Amsterdam and Drew is done with airport ops manager training. We discuss:

• Airport Restrooms
• Top 10 airports according to AirHelp
• The Embraer 195-E2 finally gets some love
• What is a sterile cockpit?
• EMAS to the rescue again…and again
• Aircraft type retirements and pilot assignments 
• Contributor comments

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Doug and Drew fight sleep deprivation after late night and overnight shifts, respectively.  Doug was on late night 767 simulator training flights and Drew was watching overnight airport ops in DC.  We stay awake to discuss:

• Remembering 9/11
• New cockpit barriers coming to an airline near you 
• Spirit’s second bankruptcy
• Another big Boeing order
• Delta settles a lawsuit 
• A checked bag takes the long road 
• Thrust settings on climb out
• A contributor’s fun work project 

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Happy Labor Day to all the aviation workers for getting where we need to be, safely, this summer. Doug and Drew talk about their aviation work weeks including Doug’s trip to Tokyo and Drew going back to airport ops midnight shift.  We discuss:

• Aviation job opportunities
• Korean Air orders 103 Boeing planes
• Frontier encroaches on struggling Spirit routes
• What is an airline focus city?
• How are airline pilots assigned to aircraft
• Listener feedback

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Doug and Drew talk about their exciting (not by choice) flights home on standby during a busy week. Drew also does his airfield runway inspections solo and is free to roam about the airport. Doug is back from his old love-hate work destination - London. We discuss:

• Celebrating our 300th episode!
• Passengers sue Delta and United
• Southwest finally admits it has hubs
• Air Canada resumes operations
• How do pilots get assigned specific aircraft types
• Listener feedback
• Voting on an airline’s new route

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Doug and Drew are doing their final summer nonrev trips which promise to be exciting - not in a good way. We discuss:

• Who is Chester, the eskimo on the Alaska tails?
• Is Atmos the name of Alaska/Hawaiian’s new frequent flier program? Is it the name of a combined airline (Drew, calm down) 
• Hawaiian cancels the current longest US domestic flight
• Spirit says it may have to shut down if revenue and costs don’t improve
• Air Canada flight attendants are on the brink of a strike
• To out-source or not to out-source
• Listener comments
• Doug and Drew travel update

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Drew responds to a bird strike and gets to learn more about snarge - it ain’t pretty. Doug is living a nonrev drama trying to get his family home from Denver. Both of us live vicariously through Drew’s husband Robbie who is flying to Turkey. We discuss:

• How are the travel numbers looking so far this summer?
• Alaska announces a big change 
• How some of the smaller airlines are doing this year 
• Turbulence avoidance 
  • Check out this turbulence forecasting website called Turbli
• Listener feedback

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