AvTalk Episode 287: How best and final is “best and final”?

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Boeing gives its striking machinists union its “best and final” offer. But how best and final is it? EASA informs A350 operators to ensure they’re cleaning their fuel hoses properly. Canada heads down a confusing path on its quest resolve airline complaints. And a United Airlines flight experiences an unusual TCAS Resolution Advisory as it prepares to land in San Francisco.
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 287 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchnick here as always with Jason Urbanowitz.
0:18.1	Hello Ian, how's it going?
0:19.7	Hello Jason, it's going well, it's going well. going well.
0:22.8	Fall is here.
0:24.2	We have passed the autumnal equinox.
0:27.1	That's true.
0:28.1	Now into shorter and shorter days.
0:31.1	Yeah, the calendar we've all rely on day- day to day has caught up with the airline industry in determining that summer is officially over.
0:37.0	Indeed, indeed. Summer is over. Fall is here and as we go into the winter season I guess as far as Iada is
0:47.0	concerned I was felt like if we're only going to have two seasons we should
0:51.2	rename them something instead of just summer and winter not peak
0:55.4	peak can not peak good and bad yeah this week it's Wednesday, September 25th.
1:04.0	We have some things on the calendar that haven't quite happened yet
1:09.0	that we'll get to talk about a little bit more next week.
1:12.0	Southwest is hosting their investor day. Normally not something that we would really dig into on this podcast, but this year's a little bit different because this year's Southwest
1:24.1	Invester Day is promising to... Things are going to change. All of the changes that
1:29.2	Southwest is going to implement exactly during the coming year as they seek to continue to fend off
1:36.3	Elliot Investment Management's play to take over the airline, get rid of all of the executives and board members and run it their way
1:46.8	Southwest executive saying no, no, we've got a plan and we'll hear more about that plan tomorrow the 26th, so we'll talk about that on next week's episode.
1:56.7	A bit of news already so far from Southwest this week with a bit of root shuffling, shall we say? No surprises really? Southwest kind of not pulling out of Atlanta, but certainly diminishing their presence there.
2:14.0	Southwest's presence in Atlanta, not all that old really.
2:18.0	No, it was AirTrans Hub, I believe that I think what Southwest inherited from Air Tran back when that merger went on so that was I think
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