Hello and welcome to episode 218 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchnick here as always with

Jason Rabinowitz. Hello Ian I hope you enjoyed your Memorial Day weekend at

least here in the US it was a three day weekend, longer than three days for many people, and it turned out to, I think, be the busiest travel weekend in years here in the US.

So, did you go anywhere? Did you do anything? I did not. As someone who

looks at these numbers on a regular basis and thinks about these things, I made the strategic decision and I think it was the right one to go nowhere.

That is a good decision.

I did go places but I did not fly.

We were in a rental car, which is something.

But yeah, happy to be nowhere near airports at all this weekend.

But everything seemed to go mostly okay, actually.

Yeah, yeah, I was really, you know, kind of going into the weekend, I was wondering if we were going to see a repeat of anything that happened last year.

Though the US was mostly less affected writ large than say Europe was last summer.

But still, I mean, this is the first real stress test of the system for the year and it seems that airlines and airports did a remarkable job. I saw photos of long lines but I also saw people saying

oh it only took a few minutes to get through, and the lines were moving,

so that's good, and everybody got where they needed to go, and hopefully had a good weekend.

Thankfully, no adverse weather really across the country, I think, at least that I'm aware of at least here and the

northeast it was still is absolutely perfectly beautiful except that smoke and haze we have from

wildfires and I think Nova Scotia Canada which is a little early in the year for such a thing but all at all not too bad good job everyone yeah so let's keep it going let's build that. What we will do is have a podcast that is very very unusual because news broke before we hit the record button.

That's not to say news won't break after we stop,

but in this rare instance, there is breaking news happening before we hit record just before it actually.

American Airlines CEO, Robert Ice, I'm saying that American Airlines will appeal the Northeast Alliance decision, the decision by the

judge that invalidated the Northeast Alliance between American and JetBlue

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