On this episode of Ab Talk, the 737 Max begins recertification flights in China.

U.S. Airlines weigh vaccine mandates and the law of unintended consequences hits airlines

squarely in the nose.

Hello and welcome to episode 124 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenck here as always with

Jason Erbenowitz. Hello Ian, how are you? Hello Jason. I'm doing very well. You sound very business like today.

Sure, I'm just tired I guess caught in the middle between two trips and haven't been able to say that in the very very long time.

You've been traveling you you returned yesterday you're leaving tomorrow so we've caught you in the

I guess the the interregnum of your travels intermission and some the

inter something where you coming from where you going I was in Seattle and I'm going

down to lovely extremely hot very much too hot

Virginia tomorrow. That's always fun I always say that DC in the middle of August is where I want to be.

Exactly, yeah. Can't think of anywhere else I'd rather be except so many other places.

But except pretty much anywhere else.

At least I wasn't in Seattle during one of their heat domes

or heat waves, so it was a reasonable temperature there.

So when some lose them.

I mean, taking what you can get is really I think the motto that I'm going for

especially the past we'll say 18 months now I think yeah was good. I got a wide body on my JFK to Seattle fight. I don't think I've ever had a wide body on that particular route which was exciting.

And what wide body was it? A Boeing 767300 ER. You may have heard of it before.

It rings a bell. So the 767300 ER with its impressive winglets and comfortable seating.

So it's basically the best of all possible to I mean outside of flying like a Delta One suite or something like that.

It's probably the best way to to get from JFK to see. That's yeah I've had some

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