On this episode of Abtau, we welcome back Seth Miller to discuss his recent

adventures on a variety of Japanese low-cost carriers and his flight on the Comac A.R.J. 21.

He also fills us in on the status of Operation Puerto Rico Care Lift and the upcoming Operation

Gift Lift.

We also recap the massive order book of the Dubai Air Show and check in in a few A380s that have been in the news.

Hello and welcome to episode 19 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchnick, as always here with...

Jason Rabinowitz, welcome and thank you for listening. We are back with... We're almost to 20 episodes.

We're closing in on 20 episodes and we're going to do a little something special for episode 20, but we'll talk about that a little bit later in the show.

You haven't been doing any traveling in the past two weeks, have you?

Why'd you remind me of that? Now I'm depressed.

I'm just making sure that you've gotten a little sleep.

Well, I didn't say I got any sleep, but I haven't been doing any traveling.

I'll make up for that soon though. right at least you haven't been up for 48 hours before we record this time so that's no I'm good and I got hot water so I could take a shower and everything.

Everything's coming up no house.

Yeah.

We are going to talk to Seth Miller a little bit later on in the program who has been doing a lot of traveling

to some very interesting places on some very interesting airlines so I'm

looking forward to that conversation in a few minutes.

We should start with with the big news in the aviation world in the past two weeks which is the massive order book that has come out of the Dubai Air show

Massive is probably the right word. I went to the Dubaier so the last time it was held in 2015 and there were

67 orders according to flight global and I can confirm because it was pretty boring.

This year there were 874 orders, more orders than in 2013,

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