Emergency management mode
4/3/202656 min
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, airlines—and entire countries—outside of the Middle East are facing a reckoning as the high price and impending unavailability of fuel. The FAA is making changes to approaches in San Francisco, reducing the arrival rate even further than planned runway construction already will. A Delta A330 suffers an uncontained engine failure departing São Paulo.
Major leadership changes are coming at Air Canada and IndiGo and Jason nominates Ian for IATA director general. And it’s a busy week for new special liveries.
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First 90 secondsIan Petchenik· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to episode 364 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchenik, here as always with Jason Rabinowitz, back in front of my actual microphone at my actual apartment on an actual Wednesday.
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:22
Still recording slightly earlier than usual, but what could possibly change in the next 30 minutes before the time we normally record, Ian? Nothing.
Ian Petchenik· Host0:30
You just had to say something, didn't you?
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:32
It's only half an hour, so half an hour from now we'll still be recording, so it'll probably be fine.
Ian Petchenik· Host0:38
Yeah, that's one way of- That's definitely how that works ... thinking about it.
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:42
Yep.
Ian Petchenik· Host0:42
Yes.
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:42
Yep, yep.
Ian Petchenik· Host0:43
Well, I'm glad you're back. I'm glad you made it back safely from the united grand adventure, and I hope that you had some good travels back, and the lengthy TSA lines weren't too unkind to you, though LAX hadn't been impacted.
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:58
No, I did quite a bit of flying above average during that whole mess, and never encountered any line at all, I think. Between LaGuardia, Newark, LAX, not so much as more than a five-minute wait. So knock on wood there. Never managed to find myself in Austin or Houston, where lines were multiple hours long, even for Pre-Check. So thankful to not have run into any of that, and that it seems to be behind