AvTalk Episode 336: No supernatural demonic force

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we’re joined by The Up Front editor-in-chief John Walton to discuss the peculiar nature of the Premium Economy cabin on Air Côte d’Ivoire’s new A330neo and the wider issues with cabin certification across the industry.
Russian drones enter Polish airspace, triggering a response from NATO and shifting flights further from the border. A WestJet 737 suffers a hard landing at SXM. The NTSB releases its preliminary report on the Delta flight 56 turbulence incident. EMAS makes two saves in one day. And the Spanish airports authority hits back at Ryanair.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* No seat, no stowage: The Up Front’s article on the new Air Côte d’Ivoire A330
* The Up Front 24% off subscription offer
* Westjet hard landing playback
* NTSB preliminary report on DL56
* EMAS saves at Chicago and Boca Raton
* AENA statement on Ryanair
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 336 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with...
0:16.0	Jason Rabinowitz. Hello, Ian.
0:18.0	Hello, Jason.
0:19.0	It's Wednesday, September 10th, and by the time the podcast comes out,
0:23.9	you and I will be on our way to Los Angeles to hang out for the weekend together and with
0:31.3	hundreds of other avgeeks. I am very excited.
0:35.9	That's true. When this comes out, I will be on a Delta 767 operating with the flight number 747.
0:44.6	Oh, I hate when they do that.
0:45.9	I hate when they do that.
0:47.1	That's a thing.
0:48.3	But I don't know if I, maybe this is a repeat, but maybe we talked about this earlier,
0:52.2	but all of the flights, Delta flights between
0:54.3	JFK and LAX have aircraft themed flight numbers, which is fun, like Delta 747, 767-757.
1:05.6	Let's see what's operating right now.
1:07.5	I've got to go past all the boring ones.
1:09.0	There's Delta 707-7-338, 742-4-2-7-6-6-7.
1:14.1	So I went from hating it to appreciating it. Very, very much.
1:18.5	You got to appreciate it. But every now and then, yeah, the Delta 747 seems to always be
1:23.5	operated by a 764. So close. Okay. But please tell me 767 is operated by a 767, and it is a 763.
1:32.1	So real heavy Avegeek influence on that route.
1:36.6	I appreciate that.
1:37.6	The sole reason I fly Delta between.
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