On this episode of Ab Talk, Jason finally gets to fly the Mambardier C series.

We say goodbye to Monarch and check in on a few other airlines that have been having trouble lately.

We get an update on the Air France A380 that suffered an engine failure over Greenland,

and we find out how Loon balloons might soon be helping the people of Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria.

Hello and welcome to episode 16 of the Avtoc podcast,

our sweet 16, we finally made it, we're getting a car.

Do we get a party? We get a party and a car. Where is the party? I didn't get me in by it.

Well, it's an e-bite fight you should check your spam yeah definitely

what the spam definitely went to spam so you've just come back from a

whirlwind tour of Europe. I'm so tired. You and Jeremy Dwy-Dwy Lindgren were all over

all over Europe doing some pretty cool stuff and we're going to talk about that a little bit later in the show, but welcome back and I'm glad you're still at least being propped up by your chair enough to record the podcast.

Yeah, I'm tired, but it was worth it. I'm tired enough that I walked into a door today. So, tired, not feeling great, but I'm here because of my dedication to this podcast.

And I appreciate that. to this

has been,

since we last recorded, more airlines...

Things have happened.

More airlines have decided that they don't have the money to keep going.

Notably, Monarch, which for real this time.

Yeah, for real this time.

I mean, about a year ago, almost a year to the day they were

flirting with bankruptcy and were able to kind of pull out of it and even ordered I

want to say almost three dozen 737 max in the intervening period. And then late September, early

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