Hello and welcome to episode 155 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchnick here as always with... Jasonerbenowitz, how are you, Ian?

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

Good. First, real business travel in two years and one week, but who's counting?

Not you, obviously. Tell the folks at home where you are.

I am in Nice, France, I'm told.

Is it nice?

Yeah, it's pretty nice.

It'd be nicer in season where like there's a lot of people and things are open but right now in mid-March it's

colder than New York actually.

Huh, I would not have expected that.

Yeah. Flights were good and all that fun stuff. Huh, I would not have expected that.

Yeah.

Flights were good and all that fun stuff?

Oh, God, yeah, sure.

I flew, I chose to fly Delta from JFK through De Gaulle down to Nice.

The Delta flight was on a two-year-old A33900 Neo,

which I was excited about, because it's a new aircraft obviously.

And this was Sunday night and as I'm walking to the gate I get a notification on my phone

saying snow expected to start in 15 minutes, expected to end in 25 minutes.

And sure enough, as I'm settling into my seat, it snows intensely for about 15 minutes, no big deal, no accumulation, but it was just long enough to require every single aircraft going out for the rest of the night to require de-icing, which was not a quick process.

Especially when it's kind of surprise deicing

and things aren't really set up at the moment.

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