AvTalk Episode 318: “All the brain damage of buying a whole airline”

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s AvTalk, Indian airlines lose access to Pakistani airspace and gain a massive fuel bill. A massive power outage in Spain and Portugal affects millions of passengers, but airports keep moving. Newark falls victim to equipment outages again as Congress proposes $15 billion to modernize air traffic control. And JetBlue and United are said to be in talks about a proposed partnership that could see United back at JFK, but what form that partnership takes long-term is in the hands of United CEO Scott Kirby. And another major aerospace manufacturer lays out its plans for dealing with tariffs.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* Indian airlines are routing around Pakistan
* House Transport and Infrastructure Committee proposal for ATC modernization (relevant text begins on page 20)
* Reuters: JetBlue and United in talks over partnership
* Airbus’ announces agreement to acquire Spirit Aerosystems work packages
* Air India taxiway takeoff final report

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 318 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik here as always with
0:15.5	Jason Rabinowitz making time during my quick lunch break during a wonderful week of meetings here in Virginia.
0:23.2	Only the best for this audience. I got to make it work.
0:26.3	It's the lunch break podcast, but we'll make it do.
0:29.1	We're recording earlier than usual. This is the 30th of April Wednesday, so something is bound to happen.
0:37.5	Good things, I hope.
0:38.8	Now that we've done this, hopefully good things.
0:40.4	Yeah, hopefully some great announcements or something like that.
0:42.9	But, Jason, let's back up and talk about what you got up to this weekend because even though
0:47.8	it didn't work out in its entirety.
0:51.0	I'm still insanely jealous.
0:53.9	So what I was alluding to last week is myself, Jeremy Dwyer Lindgren, who's been on the podcast
0:59.5	a number of times along with Sett Miller, who's also been on the podcast number of times.
1:02.9	We had a great plan for last Saturday. We were going to go up to Montreal and then fly with
1:09.1	Air Inuit on one of its gravel kit equipped 737 200 aircraft,
1:17.0	a 47-year-old aircraft. Unfortunately, it did 47-year-old aircraft things. We were intending to fly
1:24.9	from Montreal up to, I'm not going to say the city named.
1:29.1	City names are really just the airport names because there is no city or even town.
1:33.3	But from Montreal up to YPX, from YPX down to YGL, which is L'GL, I can say that one,
1:39.0	and Ligran back down to Montreal all in a day.
1:42.7	It did not quite go that way. We all got on board. I'm sorry, I forgot to mention also a day. It did not quite go that way.
1:44.8	We all got on board.
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