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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
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Doug is with family in Colorado after just making it there and Drew is having to change from airline radio lingo to airport lingo. Its, “roger”… copy? We condense days of NTSB hearings on the DCA crash into 3 main takeaways. Also on this episode:

• So long SeatGuru!
• Blue Sky gets the Green Light
• American Airlines finds a new partner
• More bad news at Spirit
• DCA crash NTSB hearings update
• A tsunami hits the Pacific
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Drew is back from tubing, hiking, and a road trip between Denver and Montana and Doug is back from his new commuter station - Barcelona. We discuss:

• European LCCs
• Update on the JejuAir crash
• Southwest sets a date for its major changes
• American’s Q2 results
• Major airspace closures
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Doug is back from Amsterdam after dodging a volcano and Drew is helping the snow team train in their new equipment in sweltering heat.

We discuss:

• What actually is the oldest airline in the world?
• United is the next airline to report their 2nd quarter results
• Premium demand continues its resilient streak
• Gulf Air gives Boeing another boost
• Unexpected (and expected) volcanic eruptions/disruptions to flights
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Doug had a glitchy 767 simulator flight and Drew succeeded in non-reving during the peak of summer….again. We discuss:

• Delta is the first U.S. airline to report 2nd quarter results
• TSA is changing its screening requirements
• More European airline consolidation ahead?
• Good news from Boeing
• India released the initial report on Air India 171

Video showing operation of fuel cutoff switches

• Runway usage, specifically how much runway to use 

Check out this link from contributor Alec regarding intersection takeoffs from a NASA study:

Intersection Incursions

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Doug and Drew just celebrated the 4th of July, on opposite coasts, and are joined by buddy Anthony, Drew’s previous coworker and an expert on aircraft leasing. We discuss:

• Why did Anthony choose aviation as a career
• The Washington Post’s best airport lists
• Air France/KLM become the largest owners of SAS
• Alaska Airlines getting  Boeing 787s and Embraer 195-E2s
• To buy or to lease - Anthony explains
• Honeymoon in Africa and Anthony reviews 3 African airlines

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Despite warnings of a travel slowdown, we exceeded 3 million passengers on June 22nd per the TSA.  Drew is facilitating EMAS repairs in hot and muggy DC (we’ll explain) and Doug was relieved to be dismissed from jury duty. We discuss:

• Dayton Airshow
• EMAS - Engineered Materials Arresting System - what is it and does it work?
• Update on single pilot ops
• Update on Air India 171
• NTSB issues initial report on the MAX door plug issue
• Summer travel numbers
• Airspace closures
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