Hello and welcome to episode 259 of Avtalk. I am Ian Petchnick here as always with

Jason Rubino, hello everyone. Hello Ian for those wondering the hot dogs were delicious this weekend.

Yes, they were.

I had to open with that because it's the most important thing we will cover this week.

Absolutely.

Thanks for stopping by for a hot dog.

For those that didn't listen to last week's episode,

Jason flew from New York on Spirit Airlines

and yeah, enjoyed a hot dog with me

and then flew home on United and how was the trip Jason?

It was great spirit was fine it was great I had the big front seat we blocked in like

35 minutes early into O'Hare which which is always fun, even though we practically landed in Milwaukee.

You picked me up, we enjoyed some food, we enjoyed some drinks. I flew back on United on a

737-800 into some of the absolute worst weather I have ever seen in New York and we blocked in eight minutes early.

You can't beat that.

Pretty great, right? I think we approached La Gordia at the absolute peak of the worst part of the storm, which was, you know, little angst that I thought we might end up in Dulles or Philly or somewhere else but

Thankfully it happened to be that the winds were blowing straight down the runway and we did the 13

ILS approach. I think it was I was I was L. G

L. Gorgi and that was it. We blocked in early. Thank you very much to all of the

ramp workers at LaGuardia out there in that absolute disgusting weather ready to receive us because that's not always a guarantee at LaGuardia, really any airport.

But I was very thankful to get out and back with no delays whatsoever on a pretty crappy day so a win in general.

Absolutely. Well a good time was had by all and there has been no shortage of aviation news over the past week.

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