AvTalk Episode 311: No LUV for a broken Heart
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
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4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Southwest Airlines this week announced a seismic shift in its strategy and culture as it will begin charging for checked bags in May. We discuss this and the other major changes coming to the airline. And Korean Air unveiled its new corporate identity included a revised livery.
Major airlines are banning lithium ion power banks, an Air India flight made a 10 hour flight to nowhere thanks to someone ruining the plumbing system, and there’s a man with a turtle in his pants.
Helpful links for this week’s episode
* NTSB preliminary report and urgent safety recommendations regarding Washington DC mid-air collision
* Learjet 55 preliminary report
* Southwest’s presentation to investors elaborating on upcoming changes
* Korean Air’s new livery in the air
* Video of Korean Air new corporate identity design
* Air India’s clogged toilets
* Mr Turtle Pants
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 311 of AvTalk. I am Jim Petchnik here as always with. |
| 0:15.3 | Jason Rubidowitz. Hello, Ian. How are you? This fine mid-March week. It is a fine week. The weather's doing what |
| 0:24.3 | mid-March weather does. And so we're cold and wet or we're warm and sunny and we're taking |
| 0:29.4 | what we can get these days. Okay. That's nice. New York is either cold and wet or warm and |
| 0:35.4 | windy for some reason. It's always windy here. I don't like it. I know that's |
| 0:40.2 | supposed to be Chicago's thing. Yeah, I mean, it's windy here too. So I don't know what to tell you. |
| 0:44.2 | Maybe you're stealing her thing. That's fine. We're known for that. I don't know how I feel about |
| 0:47.9 | this. But we do have a good show for you this week. We have a lot of updated information, some helpful, |
| 0:57.4 | some unhelpful, some maddening. And we'll get to that in a moment. We've got some big changes |
| 1:03.1 | coming to a few airlines around the world. And we have a man with a turtle in his pants. |
| 1:11.9 | I mean, is that a euphemism or no, nope. |
| 1:15.0 | I wish it were. |
| 1:16.3 | Nope, nope, we'll get there. |
| 1:18.1 | We'll get there. |
| 1:19.0 | Let's start in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:20.9 | where the NTSB had a further briefing yesterday, the 11th of March, where they briefed on the preliminary report |
| 1:31.5 | on the mid-air collision between a PSA Airlines, CRJ, and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. |
| 1:39.3 | The information about the collision itself is not new. There was nothing really new in the preliminary |
| 1:50.3 | report as far as information about the aircraft, about the crew, about the collision, |
| 1:56.5 | about operations at DCA. That wasn't really the takeaway here. However, the NTSB in its investigation |
| 2:05.3 | into this incident has been looking at operations at DCA more generally. They took a look |
| 2:14.3 | at voluntary safety reporting information that's collected by the FAA. So something |
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