AvTalk Episode 321: Global gets off the ground

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4.8 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week, Gabe Leigh joins Ian and Jason in Stockholm for a special episode of AvTalk. Gabe recounts his experience on the first Global Airlines revenue flight and we discuss the future prospects for the would-be, all-A380 airline. We also get into the interesting media relations strategy being pursued by Global Airlines CEO James Asquith.
We also cover Etihad’s aircraft order and surprise route announcement to Charlotte. Spanish investigators release their final report on a Lufthansa pilot’s incapacitation near Zaragoza last February. And the story of how the 747 deal between the US and Qatar unfolded gets murkier.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* Gabe’s video review of the inaugural Global Airlines flight
* Etihad announces flights to Charlotte
* Spanish CIAI report on Lufthansa pilot incapacitation

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 321 of AvTock.
0:12.0	I am E. M. Petchnik here, as always with Jason Rabinowitz.
0:16.1	Proud to bring you the Airbus A321 pick your variety of the 321 episode of the podcast.
0:22.9	We really should have had them sponsor this set of episodes.
0:26.3	But this is the last one they get for a while.
0:28.5	Well, then we'll come back around.
0:29.8	10, yeah, but we have someone else with us today.
0:32.3	We sure do.
0:33.8	Gabe Lee, welcome back to the show.
0:35.6	Thanks so much.
0:36.2	It's good to be back.
0:36.8	It feels like it's been a long time.
0:37.9	It has been a long time.
0:38.8	You've been busy.
0:39.7	I have, yeah.
0:40.5	Well, we're all here in the same room in Stockholm.
0:44.8	Weird.
0:45.4	Drag Jason across the Atlantic.
0:47.4	And you?
0:47.9	Drag myself across the Atlantic.
0:49.6	I even came across the Atlantic, even though I live here.
0:51.8	Gabe came back across the Atlantic, even though I live here. It came back across the Atlantic. We'll get to that.
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