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Drew is in Hong Kong,  with return guest Ian, while Doug is in North Carolina for KC46 training. Ian and Drew are fresh off flights from LAX where they met up with avgeek friends. We discuss:

Lara of Nonrev Lounge has her birthday at LAX…of course

Getting from LAX to HKG via MUC and ZRH? It’s complicated

4 engines for long haul. We discuss the A340

737 Max update 

Lufthansa ground workers strike

Maybe they’re Vince Peterson stairs, not DB Cooper?

What’s KLM Asia?

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Drew is back in the air and working on perfecting landings in a Cessna Skyhawk.  Doug is home from work and spending way too mcuh time figuring out if Taylor Swift will make it from her concert in Tokyo. We discuss:

Doug gives Drew tips on how to grease a landing

Jetblue and Spirit appeal the decision denying their merger

Should Boeing “sunset” the 737?

Contributor Steve laments the current state of travel attire and we agree

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Drew is back in the sky working on a private pilot’s license while Doug is in Houston on the “V" part of his “W" assignment of SFO-LHR-IAH-LHR-SFO.  We discuss: 

Sending a 767 to San Diego with rampers to work it

Late Senator Dianne Feinstein gets an SFO terminal and the Ontario Airport named after her

American, Southwest, and United reported earnings 

Jetblue may be changing it's mind about merging with Spirit 

El Niño pushes flights across the Pacific at record speeds

The 737 Max 9 is cleared to fly!

American has changed toiletry kits to cardboard 

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Drew had 2 deice events this week as El Niño brings in the promised precipitation. Doug is back from sunny Taipei after riding some bad turbulence on the way home. We discuss:

Air Florida 90 and deicing hold over times

Boeing 737 Max 9 grounding update 

Everyone’s jumping on the India band wagon  (Mumbai rush hour train) with more flights

Spirit/Jetblue merger failure. What now?

Boeing and Airbus order books are packed!

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Doug is back from a 2-day trip to Munich where the trains weren’t running and Drew is lucking out again with calm East Coast weather for the MLK weekend traffic. We discuss:

Alaska 1282 door plug incident

It’s an El Niño year for weather patterns. How does that affect aviation?

Jetblue's Joanna Geraghty is the first major US airline CEO

Delta orders 20 A350-1000s

What does Boeing pay for 737 groundings?

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Drew deals with “flurrygate" to cap off 7 busy week for airport ops while Doug is getting much needed rest after a running the gauntlet over the Christmas holiday. We discuss:

JAL 516 - “kudos to the crew”

Smooth operators - airlines keep it together over the holiday season 

Akasa (who?) on the verge of a 150 aircraft order 

2023 was a safe year for aviation 

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Doug is back from his “W” trip SFO-LHR-IAH-LHR-SFO and trying not to think of where his body clock is. Drew enjoyed a traditional airline Christmas of working and then enjoying takeout Chinese food on the couch with Robbie and doggie, Henny. We discuss:

Did our predictions for 2023 happen?

Mexicana is back!

Are exploding engines in our future? We look at rotating detonation engines 

Why do airlines still use 1960s technology dot matrix Okidata printers? 

Predictions for next year

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Drew and Doug are both on the job the week of Christmas with Drew working the busy hub operation and Doug doing flights to London, then Houston, back to London, and then home to SFO.  We talk about news stories as presents and what we’d like to see under the avgeek Xmas tree. 

We also discuss:

JSX buys 300 electric and hybrid planes

Boeing resumes deliveries to China

Lufthansa orders 737 Maxes 

We explain what “airline chicken” is

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Ganesh Sitaraman, professor at Vanderbilt University, and author of “Why Flying is Miserable: and How to Fix It”, joins us to talk about the history of the airlines and how to make them better. We discuss:

•  The inception and growth of America’s airlines 
• Regulation and deregulation 
• Ideas on how to bring back service to smaller cities, improve the flying experience, and keep it accessible 

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Doug is back from KC46 training near Philadelphia and Drew is working to save fuel by having aircraft APUs shut down fast. Both of us are excited about the Alaska/Hawaiian merger and of course we have opinions on it. Should they start a new airline brand or keep Alaska and Hawaiian identities separate?  We also discuss: 

The best and worst airports for layovers

The JetBlue-Spirit merger gets closer to happening 

Thai Airways is on the verge of a huge 787 order

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