Hello and welcome to episode 232 of Avtoc. I am E.

E.m. Petchenik here as always with

Jason Ebenowitz. Hello Ian, how are you?

Hello Jason. I am exhausted. How are you, sir? Good. You don't sound exhausted. How are you sir?

Good, you don't sound exhausted. You're rather upbeat and actually kind of moving pretty quickly today.

Yeah, it's been a busy couple weeks, been a busy day, lots going on, trying to get a lot of things done around Chicago

so that I and you can head to LA this weekend.

So when the podcast comes out, we might both be on an airplane.

That's true. No, I will not be. I'm flying out tomorrow Thursday, so I will already be in LA.

I hope you're off the plate.

I hope my flight is not 24 hours delayed,

but you know what, maybe it will be.

I don't know, we'll talk about some issues with the triple seven later

Some weighted issues yeah triple seven and you hated yeah yeah but yeah I'm excited about it

Didn't make it to cranky dork fest last year was last there in 2021. Yeah, looking forward to it. There was a bit of some

disappointing news earlier today and that was wiped out by some of that. Happy news.

I don't know who made some phone calls or who did what.

But in the run-up to Cranky Dorcas, Cranky Flyer,

Brett Snyder put out a little tiny blog post saying,

hey, unfortunately L.A.X's runway too far right which is the

runway closest to in and out that basically goes right over our heads will be closed starting the morning of the dork fest lasting all the way through January and that would be really disappointing since you'd still see airplanes but they'd be a bit farther away, but then all of a sudden a couple hours later all the notums disappeared and

apparently the runway closure is delayed by a few days which was squeaked in there and see airplanes. It was originally supposed to close

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