AvTalk Episode 320: About that Qatari 747

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Ian and Jason are joined by resident numbers expert Gavin Werbeloff for the facts and figures behind some of the large aircraft we’ve seen this week. There are more changes coming to Newark as the FAA tries to prevent more air traffic control outages. And we dig in to the history of the 747-8I Qatar wants to gift the US and why any thought of quickly turning it into a temporary Air Force One is a flight of fancy.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* DOT’s new ATC outline
* FAA statements on Newark
* P4-HBJ 747-8KB(BBJ)
* Qatar orders up to 210 Boeing aircraft
* Organ transplant logistics (episode 198)
* JetBlue’s special Dunkin’ livery A320
* Emirates’ special Courier Express livery A380

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 320 of AvTalk.
0:12.0	I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with Jason Urbanowitz.
0:16.6	Happy A320 podcast day.
0:19.6	Happy A320 podcast day. Happy A320 podcast day.
0:21.8	We're going to continue this bit until we run out of numbers.
0:24.8	Yeah, well, it'll give us two episodes.
0:27.5	We are also joined today by our resident numbers expert Gavin.
0:31.6	We're beloved Gavin.
0:32.4	Thank you so much for joining us today.
0:33.8	We've got a lot of numbers in this show.
0:35.6	It's good to be back, you know.
0:37.2	I was getting worried.
0:38.0	I wouldn't get to finish my sandwich card. Now, yeah, we're going to have to punch that card and get
0:43.0	you a sandwich. We've brought one piece of still in business. We've brought Gavin on today because we've got a lot of
0:49.6	order information coming at us fast and furious, thanks in part to a big swing through the Middle
0:56.1	East by President Trump, as well as some stuff that we've been digging into this week
1:02.9	with regards to the announcement that the United States might be accepting a 747 gift
1:10.3	from Qatar. So we'll talk about that in a little bit. But
1:13.7	breaking news, Jason, huge news coming out of the FAA today. The hugest. It says that the FAA
1:20.8	met with airline representatives to discuss Newark today, and they will look forward to continuing
1:25.9	those conversations tomorrow.
1:28.2	Great.
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