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Doug and Drew are back from Asia and have some some great travel stories to tell. Drew’s return flight plan from Colombo had him flying in the opposite direction to get home. Doug was back in Manila where the country is booming and people are nice everywhere you go. We also discuss:

• Airlineratings.com’s lists of top airlines. 
• Lufthansa’s new Allegris product seats don’t fit!
• Spirit turns down Frontier’s merger offer for a 3rd time
• New information on the DCA middair collision
• A review of the safey advances after the last major US crash in Buffalo, NY

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We look at the facts after a tragic accident involving a Blackhawk helicopter and AA5342 from Wichita to Washington Reagan National operated by a PSA CRJ700. Our thoughts are with the families and our extended airline family at PSA and American Airlines. 

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Doug is taping from warm Taipei and Drew is back from cold Chicago to colder DC. We discuss:

• Deice procedures review
• Southwest and Spirit cut costs
• DOT fines more airlines for recurring delays
• More orders for new 767s?
• FAA doesn’t mandate thrust reversers 

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Drew started 2025 flying to Denver for work and Doug is finishing a fun (and stressful) couple weeks at home. Drew is also prepping for the biggest Mid Atlantic storm in years. We discuss:

• Winter Storm Blair
• The most on time airlines of 2024
• Jetblue gets the first ever DOT fines for chronic delays
• Archer Aviation gets ready to build eVTOLs
• Jeju Air offices are raided by police
• How to slow down a plane on landing 

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We recount four back to back accidents this week, as 2024 comes to a close, but we also remember the positive things that happened in aviation this year. In this episode we discuss:

IT glitches at American and JAL

Southwest is cleared of safety concerns by the FAA

Azerbaijan and Jeju Air crashes 

KLM and Air Canada incidents

Boom Overture, eVTOLs, and Asia is back!

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Doug is back from New York and Tokyo and Drew is on a much needed break from a busy start to the Christmas travel week. There’s no huge aviation news this week so we have a bunch fun news stocking stuffers for you. On this episode we discuss:

Christmas season passenger volumes and possible disruptions

ANA acquires 100% of LCC Peach Air

Air Kerala plans to launch in mid 2025

Archer Aviation and Joby Aviation make progress with their eVTOL air taxis

Frontier brings back an all-you-can-fly pass

China Airlines brings cheer to Boeing and Airbus with widebody orders

United has a new widebody route surprise for Denver

We unpack OAG’s just released busiest routes lists 

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