AvTalk Episode 319: What’s old is Newark again

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On this episode of AvTalk, we learn more about what happened at Newark last week, what is still causing dozens of daily cancellations, and what’s being done to mitigate the problem. We also discuss some of the ideas touted by Newark’s biggest user, United Airlines, to improve the situation. We get an update on the situation in India and Pakistan as tensions continue to rise and airlines are staying further away. Plus, just as things at Pratt and Whitney were looking up for the GTF engine, machinists are on strike, with a long work stoppage threatening to further disrupt an already strained supply chain.
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 319 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik here, as always with Jason Rabinowitz. Hello, Ian. How are you doing?
0:19.7	I'm doing well, Jason. It's a beautiful day here in Chicago, and I'm doing well. How are you doing? I'm doing well, Jason. It's a beautiful day here in Chicago,
0:23.0	and I'm doing well. How are you, sir? I'm great. I'm home. I can see the sun again. We've had
0:28.7	some terrible weather. I'm just happy that we're finally up to episode numbers that are the same
0:33.9	number as some airplanes. We all know love and fly. This is true. 319. I love a good 319.
0:40.8	They're hard to find these days, but maybe one day we'll get to some Boeing numbers.
0:45.1	There you go. If we keep at it long enough, we can, although there's some Boeing numbers coming
0:50.4	up barely soon if you go back far enough. Yeah, I guess if you want to,
0:55.4	you want to take a dip into history, sure, why not? So last week, you were on the road
1:01.9	in D.C. And you came to us from what was charitably be described as a wet paper bag. So we
1:10.0	apologize a little bit for Jason. The audio was that bad.
1:13.3	It wasn't that bad. There was one person. There was one person who was very upset about your audio.
1:18.4	I was told that the microphones on my MacBook Pro are studio quality. So please direct your hate mail towards Tim Cook.
1:27.3	There you go.
1:28.5	But you then did a bit more flying that wasn't necessarily work-related, but a little bit more fun.
1:37.0	And we can play the Johnny Cash song, Hey Porter.
1:39.4	Hey, Porter.
1:40.0	Yeah, my first time, flying Porter, I got a taste of all two of their aircraft types, the Q400
1:46.3	and the Embryor E-E-195E2, and man, are those two very different, very, very different experiences.
1:56.5	I don't think I've ever been on an airline where two aircraft are so dissimilar from each other.
2:01.8	The Q400, which, by the way, I have not been on a Q400 or any turbo prop for that matter in a very long time.
2:07.8	Q400s are kind of a rare breed.
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