AvTalk Episode 286: Leis, strikes, and stripped for parts
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
Flightradar24
4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
As the Boeing Machinists’ strike enters week two, the company is implementing a long list of measures to hoard cash. In other strike news, Air Canada and its pilots union have reached a tentative agreement, but it still needs to be ratified.
Ian heads to Dorkfest and SpotLAX in Los Angeles and chats with Kevin and Rudy from YouTube channel Airline Videos Live about the growth and future plans. And a US company is suing Australian airline REX for allegedly stripping aircraft for parts that didn’t belong to them.
Helpful links for this week’s episode
* US Department of Transportation announcement on Alaska + Hawaii merger approval conditions
* Airline Videos Live captures a Lufthansa 747-8 hard landing and go around at LAX
* Brett Snyder’s Cranky Dorkfest wrap-up
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 286 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic here as always with Jason Rabinowitz. |
| 0:16.5 | Ian, how was LA and all of the airplane related things in LA last weekend? |
| 0:22.4 | It was a fantastic weekend. |
| 0:24.4 | Dorfest and Spot LAX were just absolutely mobbed |
| 0:29.7 | with aviation loving folk. |
| 0:31.7 | I was blown away by how many people turned out. |
| 0:36.0 | Brett Schneider of cranky flyer frame told me there were over 300 people for the |
| 0:42.4 | ramp tour that took place before Dorcfest proper. |
| 0:46.0 | I handed out along with Brett's son 527 raffle tickets at Dorcfest. |
| 0:53.6 | And then there were at least, I want to say 150, 200 people |
| 0:58.4 | at the NYC Aviation event at the Proud Bird |
| 1:01.8 | later in the evening and then maybe a hundred or so at the donuts on the |
| 1:06.9 | hill on Sunday morning. So all in all, just fantastic amount of fun and a great weekend. |
| 1:13.0 | And I had a number of podcast listeners come up to me and ask if I was here as always with. |
| 1:19.4 | And I had to spend the entire weekend saying no and you can blame Newark. |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah you I mean you could always blame Newark that's always it always a safe but |
| 1:30.3 | it doesn't even have to be aviation related you can blame Newark for like |
| 1:33.4 | being like to work or like not getting a raise or whatever but yes I was busy doing |
| 1:39.2 | train and train related things on last Saturday train and train access plane and airplane related things. Thank you Hank Hill. |
| 1:46.8 | Sorry to have missed it, but I didn't miss the podcast and we didn't have to scramble to |
| 1:51.0 | record anything. |
| 1:52.0 | So that's there you go. Yeah, there. So that's. There you go. |
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