AvTalk Episode 313: Turn off the airport, and turn it on again
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
Flightradar24
4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
En route to Shanghai, a pilot discovers he’s forgotten his passport; and a Southwest Airlines crew forgets what a runway looks like and attempts to depart on a taxiway. It looks like Boeing is going to trial and Airbus is pushing ahead with hydrogen. And one restaurant gives Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary a taste of his own medicine.
Helpful links for this week’s episode
* TSB report on Endeavor Air accident
* Michael O’Leary’s restaurant bill
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 313 of AvTalk. |
| 0:13.0 | I am Ian Petchnik here once again, as always with Jason Rabinowitz. |
| 0:19.2 | And first of all, Ian, I would like to set the record straight |
| 0:23.6 | that ice coffee is the best coffee. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on. You need you to |
| 0:29.6 | understand that. Second off, that should let you know that I listened to the podcast. I was just |
| 0:34.6 | going to say, this proves that you've listened to at least two |
| 0:37.5 | episodes of the podcast. And this is episode 313. I had to know. I had to know. And you know what, |
| 0:43.1 | I'm glad I did listen because I will not stand idly by and listen to you slander ice coffee |
| 0:48.9 | like that. I mean, no, I'm still going to do it. You don't have to stand idly by. I'm not saying that |
| 0:56.0 | ice coffee is always a bad choice. I'm just saying it's the wrong kind of coffee, but that's, |
| 1:03.1 | you know, that's fine. I mean, you're wrong, but thanks for bringing it up. I value your opinion. |
| 1:07.9 | I appreciate that we could have this discussion. Hey, you went to Mexico and A, |
| 1:14.4 | didn't take me. Sorry. And B, left on what was a very good week to not be around. I mean, |
| 1:22.9 | to be fair, well done. Every week. Thank you. Every week right now is a good week to be somewhere else. Disconnected. I didn't even open social media. I didn't look at blue sky. I didn't even open it. Didn't scroll once. And I'm glad I didn't until I got back. We were very happy down in Mexico City eating tacos, tortas, casidias, and everything from |
| 1:47.5 | street food to fine food, and it was all very good. I was very happy with it. Less than stellar |
| 1:53.7 | experience with Delta on the return home, but that's, I guess, what happens when you fly |
| 1:58.2 | its sixth oldest aircraft in the fleet. And if you know anything |
| 2:02.0 | about Delta, that means it was a very old airplane. That's saying something. That is saying |
| 2:06.5 | something. It was a 35-year-old 757-200, which was riddled with mechanical issues on the return |
| 2:16.0 | flight. Ended up only getting back |
| 2:17.9 | like 35 minutes late. |
| 2:19.8 | But from the miracle of schedule padding, because we left 90 minutes late, isn't that fun? |
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