Hello and welcome to episode 277 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchnick here as always with

Jason Rubinots. Hello Ian, how's it going? It's going well. The storms have

passed. We'll talk a little bit about that in a moment.

The sun has come out and the week is ambling on towards the weekend, which is when the

exciting stuff begins. But you are back in front of the

microphone back from behind a bagel I assume a couple big or some poutine maybe yeah I

hear Montreal is famous for both of those things. I think the bagels are pretty good. extended getaway in Montreal where it was also blisteringly hot and the French influence of how we don't really need air conditioning

It was a little unfortunate for the most part, but it was a nice weekend. Well, that's good. And welcome back.

I'm glad you had a nice time and that's what I always do when I think of places to go.

When it's very hot, I want to go to places without air conditioning.

Yeah, I've only ever been to Montreal during heat waves.

I really got to cut that out and maybe go in February or something.

Yeah.

I'm just happy I got there and back without any major issues because if you've been paying attention to air travel in the northeast or really anywhere east of the Mississippi in the last week.

It's kind of been a hellscape of flight delays, cancellations,

diversions, tornadoes and all sorts of stuff. I got extremely lucky. No major issues in either direction.

Actually, we were early in both directions, but it was one of those situations

on the way there, our flight was delayed because of operational issues, not actually because of weather.

And the earlier flight, two hours earlier than mine, was also delayed because of operational issues by two hours.

So I said, why don't, I just hop on that flight.

I'll get where I'm going before I was even supposed to land on my original flight.

And that turned out to be great. And on the return flight, miraculously, we took off from Montreal and just made a straight line south to New York.

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