AvTalk Episode 338: Tunis to Nice, too close

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a Nouvelair flight almost lands on top of an easyJet A320 in Nice. In Aalborg, Copenhagen, and Oslo, reported drone sightings put a halt to flights. And we spend a lot of time in the low cost segment of the industry with fresh bad news for Spirit Airlines, Frontier’s CEO hitting back at United’s CEO and Ryanair’s move to all-digital boarding passes. Plus, Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren and Jason are back from their schnitzel-stop tour of European low-cost carriers to fill us in on the state of long-haul, low-cost across the Atlantic.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* Nouvelair and easyJet in Nice
* FAA SAFO on cabin baggage
* N302PQ — Delta’s new tail CRJ-900

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 338 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik here as always with
0:15.6	Jasoner Rabinowitz. Hello. I have finally kicked my jet lag. And you could probably hear it in my voice a little bit.
0:22.2	I'm feeling a little bit lighter, a little bit bouncier, more with it.
0:26.5	More airy.
0:27.7	Yep.
0:28.2	A happy Wednesday to you, sir.
0:30.1	Thank you, I guess.
0:31.7	Apparently it's drone season.
0:33.0	We are recording on Wednesday, September 24th, and this week has been seeing drones everywhere
0:41.2	you turn week.
0:44.0	Currently, there are reported drone sightings over Allborg in Denmark.
0:49.9	This follows earlier reported sightings of drones over Copenhagen and Oslo. Now, no one's actually
0:59.4	confirmed that these are drones to the best of our knowledge at the moment. Authorities are
1:05.5	treating this extremely seriously. Police have been involved. The national authorities have
1:10.1	been involved. There is video
1:12.4	evidence from Copenhagen, though it is rather inconclusive as to what it shows. There's also
1:19.4	the mildly complicating factor of a general aviation aircraft flying pretty much at the same time that the drones were first reported in Copenhagen.
1:30.4	So that might be playing into how this all got started, but that doesn't really explain
1:35.7	Oslo or Olberg.
1:36.7	But it's definitely becoming very, very, very annoying that these events keep happening and are leading to lots of canceled
1:47.0	flights, lots of diverted flights, and just headaches all around whether or not these are
1:53.5	actually drones or just drone sighting reports.
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