Hello and welcome to episode 255 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenik here as always with Jason Raminowitz. How is it going Ian? It's going well Jason. How are you sir?

I'm good, thank you.

It's been a quiet week for once.

Don't say that too loudly, you know how news likes to break moments after we stop.

Are you tempting fate? I don't want to tempt the

the wrath of the thing high atop the whatever. All right, so things that we've been

talking about for the past few weeks remain unchanged.

Most of the 737-9 max aircraft with the door plugs

are back in service.

Alaska still has one aircraft that is out of service.

I think that's the same update.

I gave, no, well, okay, let me back up.

It has two out of service.

One happens to be the accident aircraft that we don't know when it will come back into service and the other one is November 918 alpha kilo which is in Greensboro I assume for extended maintenance of some kind, and then it will pop back into service when it is ready.

So there's one non-door blown-off aircraft that Alaska needs to put back into service, but everybody else has put theirs back into service.

So what do we fill our time with this week? Well, we fill it with stupid.

Oh, yeah, we got some prime.

This is grade 8 week.

Stupid.

It is real stupid and it's a good thing it didn't coincide with the other stupid from the 7-3 because

some 7-3rees were actually pulled into

pulled into service to fill in for another aircraft that happened to be grounded a

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