AvTalk Episode 334: They got Nuuk’d

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4.8 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Nuuk, Greenland cancels international flights after security screeners need additional training. Korean Air signals its intent to purchase more than 100 Boeing aircraft, but most of the proposed order is for aircraft not yet certified. Reports are swirling that China is looking to make a massive order for both Airbus and Boeing aircraft. Frontier is taking steps to hasten Spirit’s demise. And authorities in Madagascar expand their investigation into five 777s illegally transferred to Iran off the Malagasy register.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* Nuuk security screening problems
* Korean Air announcement
* Frontier’s new routes
* EASA VTOL noise regulations proposal

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 334 of AvTalk.
0:13.1	I am Ian Petchnik here as always with Jason Rabinowitz.
0:17.7	Hello, Ian, what's going on?
0:19.5	It's Wednesday.
0:23.7	It's the morning and I'm still drinking coffee. We're recording even earlier this week than we normally do because, Jason,
0:28.9	you've got something very special going on. I do. I have encroached into my typical lunch hour
0:34.2	break here at work to record this because later today I will be joining
0:38.5	not an airline but a railroad specifically Amtrak to be on the media departure out of New York
0:45.7	up to Boston or really New England somewhere in New England. Don't know where yet. On the
0:50.5	next gen Estella, which is very exciting and only about half a decade behind schedule.
0:56.3	So things are looking good.
0:58.2	That's like one Boeing triple 7x delay.
1:03.8	Yeah.
1:04.1	I mean, this thing was originally announced in 2016, finally hitting revenue service in 2025. So if you compare it to Boeing standards,
1:15.0	actually it's still bad. It's not great. Have a good time. Thank you. And we'll be interested
1:22.4	to figure out how you get home next week. Me too. Because my return train is canceled.
1:28.9	Because of course it is. Because of course it is.
1:30.1	Speaking of returns being canceled, there are some folks in Newk Greenland who are trying
1:39.3	to figure out how to get home.
1:42.2	Because yesterday's United Flight from Newark to Newark returned to Newark.
1:50.5	Oh, the worst shameful event. Not because there was anything wrong with the United aircraft,
1:57.2	not because there was any disturbance on board, not for any reason that United had any control over.
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