On this episode of Av Talk, the Kabul Airlift ends and the last US military aircraft leaves

Afghanistan after a 20-year war. Emirates brings forward its final A380 delivery, and Eastern Airlines is getting into the boxes business. Hello and welcome to episode 127 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchen here as always

with Jason Urbino. hello Ian how are you I'm I'm

well sir how are you good good I hear you might be leaving the house. I am not only leaving the house I might be leaving the country.

Wow. I know but we'll see. Yeah no I'm excited I'm it's it's September 1st, which means I am

officially traveling this month. At least that's the plan. I'm not counting on any

of this actually happening until it happens, given everything that's going on.

A wise stance at the moment.

Tentative plans put me traveling in 16 days.

Gonna go out to Los Angeles for the Dorcfest and Spot LAAX.

I hope some of our listeners are planning on joining us for a wonderful outdoor event of

plain spotting and hamburger eating or or whatever you choose to enjoy while you watch planes.

And then there's a thing after that is in the works that I think is going to be very neat and that will,

our wonderful podcast listeners will hear about after that happens.

So some really exciting things in the works and I am excited to be getting on a plane somewhere, anywhere, within a couple weeks.

That's great. Yeah, looking forward to Dorkfest spot, LAX.

I'm going to be flying United 7-6 at of JFK, so all of those are new things.

And then if I'm lucky, a 7-8- 78710 on the way back to Newark so that's something to look forward to.

I thought about doing that. I'm on a 757 300 on the way out and then when I was booking my ticket one of the options was the

the Transcon to Newark on the 78710 and then back to Chicago and I decided against it at the time but I was I was seriously

considering it. Well I took them up on it I actually switched from JFK over to Newark and

saved $16 and now I get to yeah money in the bank that travel

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