Hello and welcome to episode 244 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchnick joined once again as always with

Jason Rubinowitz hello Ian sorry I kind of ghosted you last week but but I was on vacation, not even accessible to you.

That must mean it's a very good vacation.

How are you enjoying your time on the other side of the planet?

It's very far away, but very good.

Getting very lucky with the weather in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto,

and now here in Taipei and Goshaw actually down in the south so all over Taiwan it's been fun to say the least.

So you obviously flew there. I don't think you I did. I did not take a cross world cruise ship that would be interesting that would be

fun fun but definitely a change of pace so anything stand out on this trip so

far as flights and things go?

I guess it got off to a bit of an interesting start.

Flew with United from Newark to Tokyo, Haneda, my first time actually flying to

Hanate.

It was a very nice experience, but it was an odd start with United.

It was a morning fight, 945 AM at a triple 7, 200 ER out of Newark. It was supposed to be operated by one of the

Pratt and Whitney aircraft and then something happened and we ended up on one of the

GE powered aircraft which I thought was a nice little win.

And the crew of the flight was really, really

happy, welcoming, just generally awesome.

And up in the flight deck, well, they wrapped up

their pre-flight checks and everything, and they're just inviting people into the flight deck while they wrapped up their pre-flight checks and everything and they're just inviting people

into the flight deck to come in, sit down, take some pictures and I did that and they're like, okay, we're all ready to go or about to button

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