Hello and welcome to episode 203 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic here as always with...

Jason Rubinewitzen. How are you, Ian? It has been days since I saw you.

It has been days. It has been days and days and days. It's been just a few days in fact because we enjoyed each other's company and the company of Seth Miller as well.

You find people made your way to Chicago and we enjoyed meals upon meals upon meals and airplanes upon airplanes and it was a good time was had by all I think.

Yeah, I enjoyed it very much. I love doing these day trips out to Chicago on otherwise lazy Saturdays

where I have nothing to do and the weather is nice and the flights are not just on

time but early and everything works the way it's supposed to except for some unimportant things.

You were so early you got put in the penalty box.

We did. I think we touched down like 35 minutes early and we were only in the penalty box for a few minutes because again, it's Saturday morning so the flight occupying our gate pushed back exactly on time, thank you Delta, and we still blocked into the gate like 25 minutes earlier or something like that, which was great.

On the way back, our flight took off four minutes after scheduled departure time from O'Hare, which is like unheard of when does that happen, that never happens.

Saturday night.

Saturday night, it's the only time.

It was great. I flew Delta on a pair of A2-20 100s got upgraded to first class even due to my

relatively still pretty low status with the airline but again flying on a Saturday it's great

there were like 80 empty seats on each flight.

Everything was great on the way back on our, we took a really northerly approach

between Chicago and New York. We actually flew over Toronto, which is a little

odd for that route, but we had an approach to runway, what was it, runway four at LaGuardia and it was the best approach I've ever had into

LaGuardia view-wise since we cut right over midtown Manhattan went down the Hudson River and made a U-turn around the battery of

lower Manhattan. And it was just an absolutely spectacular view at night, and I wish every fight were that easy and scenic. That would be ideal, but alas what

would we have to talk about if every flight was that easy? Yeah that story is real short. I mean it was nice going to a hair seeing some airplanes I don't

typically get to see you've got some interesting airlines out there.

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