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Humanoids handling your bags?

5/1/202647 min

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, the NTSB’s preliminary report on the crash at La Guardia Airport in New York lays out the avenues of investigation and spurs the Port Authority to action. FedEx says it will put the MD-11 back into service in May, but the FAA still needs to weigh in. US low cost carriers are pitching the government on a $2.5 billion support package, while Spirit negotiates separately for an increasingly unlikely $500 million loan.

Alaska Airlines launches its first European service, while American Airlines returns to Venezuela for the first time since 2019. American and...

Clips

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Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Ian Petchenik· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to episode 368 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchenik, here as always with Jason Rabinowitz.

  2. Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:17

    How are you, Ian?

  3. Ian Petchenik· Host0:19

    I'm well, Jason. How are you, sir?

  4. Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:20

    I'm good. I'm excited that my microphone failed only several seconds into our first take of the podcast and not several minutes. So hey, we get a fresh start, and no one will ever know what we said the first time.

  5. Ian Petchenik· Host0:32

    [laughs] We got so far into it the first time around, but hopefully we can make it through this time. And if we can't, well, then no one will ever know because we'll just do it again.

  6. Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:41

    No one will know. It'll be our little secret.

  7. Ian Petchenik· Host0:43

    Exactly. But I tried to really draw out that always this week because- I heard that ... we're celebrating a huge milestone at Flightradar24 this week, and we have a very special listener who usually listens to us more quickly because of technological advancements. I wanted to draw things out so that it lasted just a little bit longer. I'm talking about our now former CEO, Fredrik Lindahl, who after 14 years as CEO is switching roles at Flightradar24. He is a member of the board of directors and will continue to help provide strategic vision to the company, but he's stepping out of the day-to-day role as CEO, and

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