Hello and welcome to episode 194 of Av Talk. I am Ian Petchnick here as always with

Jason Eurobinowitz and hello Ian how are you? I'm well Jason how are you sir is the is the real question.

I am good I am currently in St Martin. It's dark out now so I can't see any airplanes but I am in one of my happy places.

You are you are close to the airplanes no matter if you can see them or not.

That's true. They are there. They're sleeping. But they're there.

They're sleeping. Well, that's good. I appreciate you've been gracious enough to to keep me regaled with photos and

some videos throughout the day today so I do appreciate that on your part. How is St Martin, I mean is it fully recovered because after the hurricane a few years ago,

the beach was gone, the hotels were in disarray, but things have come back to a certain extent still.

Yeah, well, yeah, I'm staying at the Sinesta Ocean Point, which is the resort right by the airport and they I think they tried to reopen March

2020 actually so not not the greatest of timing great timing yeah they

went straight from being obliterated by a hurricane

to being obliterated by COVID.

But now they bounce back, they're doing well,

the whole place is totally reconstructed.

I don't know if the rest of the island is faring quite as well,

but the beach is back the

the road there the airport itself is on its way back I think they should be

done sometime next year but right now if there are jet bridges they're not in use there are

several gates where there just are no jet bridges is just a hole in the wall so it's very much still a temporary operation in the terminal while they piece it back together but I think

they should be coming along to finishing it next year.

Excellent.

That's good here. I really it's it's like the I don't know on the on the short list of Av geek things

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