AvTalk Episode 286: Leis, strikes, and stripped for parts
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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On this episode of AvTalk, Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines secure Department of Transportation approval of their merger. 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 […]
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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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