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AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

When saving money costs lives

3/13/202656 min

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, updates on the war in the Middle East and the widening effects on the aviation industry. We cover the new airspace restrictions in Azerbaijan, additional rescue flights by airlines in the region, and the pressing problem of skyrocketing fuels costs around the world.

Also on this week’s episode, Air India Express loses a nose wheel in Phuket, while IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers abruptly resigns. Auditors in South Korea explain why the ILS antenna in Muan was constructed with a concrete wall.

China is considering a large Boeing orde...

Clips

Concrete Wall Hidden In Berm
Taxiway Takeoff Near Fuel Farm
Nine Minutes To Liftoff
IndiGo CEO Abrupt Exit
China Mulls Massive Boeing Buy
Jet Fuel Spike Ripple Effects
Jets At Billy Bishop Again?
Ryanair’s Plane ‘Seized’ For €890
Hard Landing, Missing Nose Wheels
O’Hare Scheduling Arms Race

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Ian Petchenik· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to episode 361 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchenik, here as always with Jason Rabinowitz.

  2. Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:17

    Hello, Ian. How are you enjoying fake summer number one in Chicago?

  3. Ian Petchenik· Host0:22

    We're done with that.

  4. Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:22

    Oh, you're done? Oh, okay.

  5. Ian Petchenik· Host0:24

    It snowed today. Yeah.

  6. Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:25

    I figured, because that's happening to us tomorrow.

  7. Ian Petchenik· Host0:27

    Yeah.

  8. Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:27

    So you've already had the whole summer experience in Chicago, where it got really warm, really nice, everyone goes outside, a thunderstorm absolutely destroys everyone's day at O'Hare, and now you're back in winter.

  9. Ian Petchenik· Host0:38

    Exactly. You just described the last 48 hours in Chicago.

  10. Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:42

    Yeah. Yesterday was bad at O'Hare, like mid-July thunderstorm bad.

  11. Ian Petchenik· Host0:49

    So what made it worse for just air traffic in general was that it was a very large storm.

  12. Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:54

    American and United having 5,000 flights a day?

  13. Ian Petchenik· Host0:56

    [laughs] And 4,700 of them were to Kalamazoo. We've been picking on Kalamazoo a lot lately.

  14. Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host1:02

    I mean, it deserves it.

  15. Ian Petchenik· Host1:03

    Yeah. What made it worse was not just the severity of the storm as it impacted Chicago, but the weather system was so large that it actually impacted flights all the way up into Canada. So the holding that had to take place outside of the storm itself, LOT was holding over, I wanna say northern Minnesota- Kalamazoo ... at some point. Yeah. [laughs] They were way up there at some point. There were flights

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