Hello and welcome to episode 241 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenik here as always with

Jason Ebenowitz. How's it going Ian? It's going well Jason. How are you sir?

That's good. I'm also good. Thank you and a nice little stint of travel and I'm happy to be home.

Yeah, I mean there are lots of things going on you were multiple places this week even before we recorded. So good for you.

Thank you. How was your adventure? I know last weekend you pop down to Florida for a minute or two and then you were in Dulles.

You just missed the pandas at Dulles by a day.

I did.

I did literally the only exciting thing to happen at Dulles and maybe decades and I miss it by a day and it went right by literally right down the road in front of where our office previously was unfortunately, which is just icing on the cake.

But yeah, I was down in Florida with a friend of the show, Ned Russell, to ride Bright Line, the new train that opened at Orlando's airport that goes all the way down to Miami,

and that was a fun time.

A bit odd to take a day trip from New York down to Orlando and then fly back up from Miami in the same day, but I did it and it was an adventure, let's say.

Go on.

Okay, well, I flew Spirit both ways.

So from LaGuardia down to Orlando, and then Spirit again back up from Miami up to LaGuardia.

It was cheap. It was very cheap. The price was right. It was hundreds of dollars less than anything else and I always say if you know what you're getting into with spirit you're going to have a fine time so long as everyone else around you also knows what the deal is and what's going to happen.

But that wasn't really the issue.

So it was a 630 a.m. flight Sunday morning at a LaGuardia.

Very early, first flight of the day for the crew, the aircraft

was there overnight, you think everything is going to be fine.

The flight usually operates almost always half an hour ahead of schedules.

So they push back early, they close the door, there's no one else out there at LaGuardia,

so they block in half an hour early.

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