AvTalk Episode 282: Just when everything was starting to go well

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Boeing’s 777X test fleet is grounded after separated or cracked thrust links are found on all three aircraft. An update on the VoePass 2283 investigation. Elliott Management, the activist investor group trying to replace Southwest Airlines’ board of directors and top management unveils its list of candidates for the board. There’s a battle among low cost carriers brewing in… Connecticut? And the FAA says check your 787 pilot seats for missing button covers.
Helpful links for this episode

* Boeing grounds 777X fleet after failure of key engine mounting structure — The Air Current
* Elliott Management Group’s full list of proposed Southwest Airlines directors

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0:16.4	Hello and welcome to episode 282 of Avtalk. I am Ian Petchenik here as always with Jason Rabinowitz and we are here back to a regularly scheduled program. We have told our lovely guest from last week Steve Giordano to come back
0:27.7	only if we can talk about good and happy things and we have not yet arranged that.
0:31.6	So today is just the normal news just a normal show having
0:35.3	Steve on two weeks in a row that might be we would break people yeah that's a
0:40.8	big too much Steve but he's busy and on vacation so we don't want to bother him again.
0:46.2	Exactly, exactly. Yeah, we should have mentioned that I think I may have mentioned it last week
0:51.7	But we did in fact pull him away from his vacation to come talk about the VoIPAS crash.
0:58.0	So thanks again, Steve, for doing that.
1:01.0	I'm back from a little break, Jason.
1:03.4	How are you?
1:04.6	I'm back in Dulles again.
1:06.9	I don't know why.
1:08.3	How I got here.
1:08.9	I took a train this time.
1:10.6	So that's something different.
1:12.4	You can do something different every once in a while.
1:15.0	Yeah, yeah. I don't trust SkyWest anymore, not after last time.
1:19.0	So Amtrak it was.
1:20.0	Yes, because Amtrak is often known for its extreme punctuality and on time.
1:27.0	Yeah, we were only 22 minutes late today. That's like practically early.
1:31.0	That's only a yellow dot. Yep, y's pretty good. Pretty good. Well, just when everything seemed to be going so well.
1:42.0	Over, not over the weekend at the very beginning of the week my days are all mixed up I'm not really sure what day it is because I took a couple of these off so I'm still getting back up to speed with the airplanes
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