On this episode of Ab Talk, we see if anyone is still waiting for their bags at JFK.

We review the 2017 Erebus and Boeing delivery numbers, and we remember a few moments from this week in aviation history.

Hello and welcome to episode 23 of AvToc. Happy New year, I am Ian Petchenick, and I am here for the 23rd time with

Jason Rabindoweth, it's happy 2018. Can we still say that or is it too late in the year to say it?

I feel like you get like one thing. This is the first time people are hearing from us in the New

Year so you get one. Okay, well unless they watched our special video update from a couple weeks ago.

That's true. That's true. We did break in. We couldn't wait to talk about how terrible the snowstorm in New York and JFK's

handling of things happened to be.

So we did a live YouTube video.

So if you've ever wanted to see what we look like

and sound like at the same time, you can watch that.

And we'll put a link in advance for that.

But basically we recapped what happened at JFK on the 4th of January and why it got so bad.

So why don't we begin with an update on are people still there or are they still locked in a

sub-basement or something?

It's very possible yeah not so much people as much as bags at this point actually so all the I assume at this point all the people are where they all want to go whether that's Asia Europe South America wherever

But the big problem became bags is that people were stuck in the terminal for days and days and days, and a lot of people on foreign airlines are not, you know, either not English speaking as their first language or don't speak English at all, which

made it really difficult for them to submit bag claims, I guess, for the airlines to actually

find them and deliver these bags. they kind of just piled up in the terminal for days and I think weeks at this point but I think they finally got it all sorted out and now there's all sorts of investigations into what the hell happened at JFK from the

DOT the FAA the Port Authority is doing its own internal investigation with Ray La Hood who

was used to head up Obama's DOT, so stuff is happening.

And let me ask you as the resident New Yorker, will anything change and will it get better?

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