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AvTalk Episode 113: Ryanair flight 4978 forced to land in Belarus

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

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4.8911 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of AvTalk, we discuss the forcible diversion of a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius to Minsk, Belarus and the ensuing international response. On 23 May, Ryanair flight 4978 was forcibly diverted by Belarus. Aviation journalist Seth Miller of PaxEx.aero joins us as we discuss what happened, the international reaction, and why […]

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0:00.0

On this episode of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic here as always with

0:26.7

Jason Rubinowitz.

0:27.7

Hello Ian and we have a special guest today live on location

0:31.8

from beautiful and very hot Tampa. It's Seth Miller. Say hello Seth. Hello Seth.

0:38.3

Welcome Seth Miller. Seth is an aerospace journalist extraordinary and writes now for his very own PaxX.

0:47.9

Arrow and he is joining the program today because Jason and Seth are on the one of the first

0:55.0

airways, the very first, the first,

0:56.0

Breeper, Airways, very first.

0:57.5

The very first, Breeze Airways flight.

0:59.8

Yes, and MX1.

1:01.8

MX1 on an airline that only started selling tickets like four hours ago or something.

1:08.0

Yeah, selling tickets a week before you launch service is probably not a great recipe for strong revenue in that first

1:14.6

week's collaborations, especially when it's a holiday weekend that people had already had plans for.

1:20.0

I'm sure a lot of people already have flights book, they already have plans.

1:23.4

It's also still in the middle of a pandemic where some people don't want to fly.

1:27.3

But it's a recipe for an interesting launch of flights.

1:31.2

The first flight we're taking launches tomorrow morning, Tampa to Charleston,

1:36.5

and then we are connecting on a route I'll probably never fly again in my life,

1:41.2

Charleston to Bradley Connecticut.

1:44.4

I don't...

1:45.4

Springfield, Massachusetts, Hartford, Connecticut, Bradley's name of the airport.

1:48.6

Right.

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