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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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Doug and Drew contributed to the record passenger traffic on Sunday , December 1 and talk about their trips back from Chicago and Nashville. On this episode we discuss:

TSA sets passenger screening record.

Airline ticket taxes and ancillary fees.

Spirit stock is delisted from the NYSE - could it shut down?

Frontier adding first class “style” seats.

AirHelp’s top and bottom 10 airlines.

What’s the difference between True North and Magnetic North?

Drew’s plans to make another attempt at Europe’s Christmas markets.

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The holiday travel season is starting and Doug and Drew will be both airline employees and passengers. We’re excited about our travel this week and about the busy season, at work, before us. We discuss:

Our Thanksgiving feasts.

TSA forecasts the busiest Thanksgiving travel week ever.

Better ways to deplane.

Emirates’ Tim Clark is upset about Boeing delays.

Cathay Pacific sees traffic above pre-pandemic levels by January.

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Doug is in Taipei and Drew’s station had its first Winter Ops event. We’re all abuzz about the upcoming US Thanksgiving travel week which is expected to be the busiest ever. We discuss:

Thanksgiving travel forecasts.

American Airlines tries to stamp out Gate Lice.

Spain slaps fines on ULCC carriers for carryon and other fees.

Investors are pumping money into eVTOLs.

Chapter 7 and 11 airline bankruptcies.

Contributor Daniel gives us a book recommendation for aircraft design. Here’s the link:

• https://archive.org/details/danraymerssimpli0000raym/page/n163/mode/2up

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Aired on November 18, 2024

Doug is taping from trip 2 to Taipei and Drew is enjoying the calm before the snow storms and the crowds of the holiday season. We take a look at where people are going this year and how many are planning to travel. We also discuss:

Planes being shot at in Haiti.

Update on AA and Jetblue’s Northeast Alliance.

India’s Vistara flies into the sunset.

Good news for Boeing with new orders.

Warnings about aircraft production issues.

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Doug has just arrived in Taipei after a 14 hour flight and Drew welcomes the first new 787 into the fleet in 2 years. We discuss:

The US elections and how it affects aviation.

Boeing machinists are back at work!

Boom Aeropace’s Overture test aircraft gets closer to the speed of sound.

We say goodbye to SFO’s bouncy walkways.

Why do some different versions of aircraft have different tail sizes?

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Drew is back from a winter ops summit and Doug’s body clock is all over the map after a multi-day domestic trip. We discuss:

An airline starts bouncing boarding line-cutters.

European airlines see softening load factors and Spirit continues layoffs.

Airbus delivers the first A321XLR to Iberia.

TFRs - temporary flight restrictions. What are they?

What’s the difference between ICAO and IATA.

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Our buddy and 2nd time guest, Stephen,  joins us to talk about going from cargo to passenger flying. We had to have him on atfer a hotline message last week where he wanted to strangle us about our pronunciation of new airline destinations. Stephen stays to discuss:

Indian carriers are menaced by multiple bomb threats.

Frontier and Spirit talk merger, again.

The FAA issues final rules for eVTOL or advanced air mobility aircraft.

We compare Boeing’s machinist strike with Eastern Airlines strike and shutdown.

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