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Doug is back from Auckland and Denver and Drew is managing the busy pre-Christmas rush. We discuss:

• Christmas passenger traffic
• US government admits fault in January midair collision near DC
• Spirit Airlines gets a lifeline
• Barry Biffle is out as CEO of Frontier
• An update on the 737-7 and 737-10
• US Customs Preclearance in foreign countries
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Doug trains new pilots on touch and go landings in the KC46 and Drew is preparing for a Winter Ops event. We discuss:

• More Airline Lounges for the new golden age of travel
• India’s Indigo airlines struggles under new pilot rest rules
• FAA administrator’s conflict of interest
• Boeing buys back Spirit AeroSystems
• California’s 79th Air Refueling Squadron 
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Drew is back from 3 days in Dublin and Doug is back from Osaka. Drew  just had his first airport winter ops event. We discuss:

• Our travels
• Early season snow
• Thanksgiving travel numbers and 2026 travel trends
• Unexpected growth at a major airport
• Impact of the government shutdown comes into focus
• The FAA is investigating airlines after the shutdown
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Doug is celebrating Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago and Drew managed to escape from work in time for Thanksgiving dinner in Richmond. How does Doug plan on getting home on the busiest travel day and how does Drew plan to get to Ireland for Christmas Markets?.  We discuss:

• Airbus A320 ELAC emergency software update
• New Pacific Airlines shuts down
• The Boeing 767 lives on with new orders for the KC46 
• Airline holiday menus
• DOT’s new Golden Age of Travel

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Doug tapes during another trip to Taipei and Drew finishes his airport scavenger hunt. We discuss:

• Orders pour in from Dubai
• Airbus teases a new model
• An Alaska pilot is sentenced from his 2023 fire handle incident
• Update on UPS 2976
• Aircraft lights
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Doug is back from London and Drew lost a fight with a windsock. We discuss our weeks in flight and airport ops as well as the latest aviation news:

• Aurora Borealis wows pilots and passengers 
• Government shutdown ends and aviation recovers
• 2 airlines serving the UK, Eastern Airways and Blue Islands, shut down
• FAA extends MD11 grounding to its predecessor, the DC10
• Windsocks - what are they and what do they do
• Near miss at LAX
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Doug is back from Taipei and Drew has a busy week at airport ops. We discuss:

• More nonrev adventures 
• Thanksgiving travel numbers and a way too early weather forecast 
• More government shutdown issues impacting aviation
• Security scare in DC
• UPS Flight 2976
• Engine failures

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• Doug’s Taipei whisky tasting place: Style Liquor and Whisky
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Doug is back from a whirlwind nonrev trip to Germany with his dad. We remember the history of Hawaiian Airlines as its airline code and operating certificate are laid to rest. We discuss:

• Doug and Dale’s amazing, and fast, nonrev adventure
• Good bye Hawaiian Airlines
• Creeping 777-9 certification delays
• ATC controllers not getting paid as shutdown drags on 
• The COMAC 919 gains traction in Asia
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Drew is back from a weekend in Quebec City and Doug is preparing for a nonrev adventure with his dad. We discuss:

• Birds on approach path
• Travelers Aid people are interesting 
• Engine shortages
• EK9788 - ACT Airlines 747-400BCF crash in Hong Kong
• American Airlines 3rd quarter numbers
• United flight 1093 severely damaged at 36,000ft
• What are weather balloons? 
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Doug is back from his narrow body style trip to NYC and Hawaii, via Denver, and Drew is loving runway inspections between flights (literally) and helping lost pigeons in the terminal. We discuss:

• A Pan Am rebirth?
• Boeing delivery news
• Another U.S. airline posts great Q3 numbers
• Lots of great contributor feedback 

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