Hello and welcome to episode 212 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenick here as always with...

Jason Erpinowitz. Hello Ian, how's it going?

Hello Jason, how are you sir? How is the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area? Oh, that's good. Washington DC metropolitan area.

Oh, that's good. I'm way out there out in Dulles, but the skies are blue, although I didn't fly because I thought

they would be gray and sad, but yeah, the airports.

There's allegedly an airport here in Dulles, though I see very few airplanes ever

moving around this airport, very strange.

When they say United runs a heavily banked operation here, they really mean it.

You'd be going hour without seeing a single airplane here in a major international airport.

It's very strange.

And then all of a sudden, there's 25 of them.

The last departure was over half an hour ago and there's been nothing since.

I'm just staring out the window waiting for something to glide by and just won't happen.

But come six o'clock, a line of airplanes. There you go.

Well, Jason's traveling this week. I'm traveling next week. So next week's episode will come to your ears dear

listeners partially from the head office in Stockholm Sweden so looking forward to

that lots of good stuff coming up and making the trips I'll be sure to take some notes on my travels.

I'm doing the Chicago-Copenhagen Stockholm Chicago

triangle this time around, thanks to flight times and the fact that SAS only has a few days a week now where there's

a non-stop between Chicago and Stockholm. I know. And I was hoping that they would increase the frequency and then toss the

A321 L. L. R. on it so I would get to try it but alas is not to be not meant to be

not this time around not yet anyway A good show this week, some very, very not good things have happened and some good things are happening. So it's a mixed bag this week, some very interesting stories to get through. But first, kind of the worst news of all,

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