AvTalk Episode 337: Pay attention, get off the iPad!
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
Flightradar24
4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Spirit Airlines tells its pilots union that it needs to find $100 million in savings by October 1 or risk seeking bankruptcy court invalidation of their contract. Meanwhile, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby says United isn’t interested in Spirit’s assets.
The US Department of Transportation terminates Delta and Aeromexico’s joint venture, effective 1 January 2026. The FAA proposes fining Boeing $3.1 million for “hundreds” of safety violations dating back to 2023.
And after a runway overrun in July, both Air Peace 737 pilots test positive for alcohol, but that’s not why the Captain has been suspended.
Helpful links for this week’s episode
* ATC audio of Spirit Airlines and Air Force One episode over New York (relevant section begins at 22:45 into the recording)
* DOT terminates Delta + Aeromexico joint venture
* Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau preliminary report on Air Peace 5N-BQQ
* FAA proposes $3.1 million fine against Boeing
* Korean Air’s 777 to avoid
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 337 of AvTock. |
| 0:12.8 | I am Ian Petchnik here as always with... |
| 0:16.5 | Mr. Benowitz. |
| 0:17.5 | Hello, Ian. |
| 0:18.3 | How are you? |
| 0:18.9 | Hello, Jason. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:20.3 | Hello from across an ocean, sir. How are you doing this fine week in Eastern Europe? |
| 0:26.3 | The Atlantic Ocean, to be precise. That's right. I am in Prague this week with a friend of the podcast, Jeremy, who we may or may not work into a podcast next week, next week's episode about our journeys. |
| 0:38.1 | Excellent. |
| 0:38.3 | But yeah, first time in Prague. |
| 0:40.0 | It's been high up on my list for a long time of places to go. |
| 0:44.1 | And yeah, I've been getting my steps in a couple days and my tram rides and my metro rides |
| 0:50.0 | and my bus rides, but my feet hurt. |
| 0:52.3 | There you go. |
| 0:53.2 | We had a great time at Dorcfest, but we'll talk a little |
| 0:54.9 | bit about that later in the show, but we do want to dive right into the non-story of the week. |
| 1:03.0 | This is one of those things where aviation folks are going, that's kind of funny. And non-aviation |
| 1:09.2 | folks are having a lot of attention heaped upon it. And so here's what happened. |
| 1:16.4 | Air Force One yesterday on the 16th of September was on its way from Andrew's Air Force Base over to the UK for U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit there. |
| 1:27.4 | And they almost caught the spirit |
| 1:29.3 | of Spirit Airlines. Because there was a Spirit Airlines flight coming into Boston, Spirit Flight |
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