AvTalk Episode 349: How do you forget about a 737?

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Ian and Jason return from their respective travels to survey this week’s news. We return to India where IndiGo’s meltdown last week left the government none-too-pleased with the airline. In the US, Peraton gets the nod as the FAA’s prime integrator for ATC modernization. Boeing completes its acquisition of Spirit Aerosystems (with Airbus picking up some pieces too).
A quickly fixed typo in a Qantas computer started a chain of events that resulted in a 737 taking off thinking it was much lighter than it actually was. And Air India is on the hook for more than $100,000 after discovering they own a 737-200 freighter that had been collecting dust in Kolkata for more than a decade.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* Qantas 737 take off weight miscalculation report

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 349 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik here once again with
0:17.2	Jason Rubinowitz. Hello. Ian, how are you? I'm well, sir. How are you? Welcome back after being
0:25.5	away. I was away. I am back. My brain doesn't know which time zone or where I am, and I am exceedingly
0:33.1	tired. Turns out when you get older jet lag becomes even more of a monster that you just can't
0:39.3	run away from. So I'm going to get through this podcast, but it's not going to be easy.
0:44.0	We believe in you. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. Getting back into the swing of things.
0:51.9	So you were gone for about two weeks. So we had fake
0:56.5	Jason on episode 347. Oh, that sounds like Jeremy to me. Yep, yep. We had fake Jason. He did his
1:03.4	best. And then last week, my new colleague, Daniel joined us for an episode. And now, Jason,
1:09.0	you are back from Seoul or South Korea generally and Japan generally.
1:16.1	So anything to note from your travels, good sir. Yeah, but again, I've been banished back to Dulles,
1:23.8	unfortunately. So the travel keeps on coming.
1:28.2	Hopefully this is the last of the year.
1:30.0	But that was a lot of fun.
1:31.0	I hadn't been to Seoul since I attended Ayatah AGM in 2019.
1:36.0	It had been a minute, but really, really just kind of ate our way through South Korea
1:43.2	and Tokyo. We had a great time with
1:45.9	Seth Miller, who we talked to a couple weeks ago. We summed up how we got there. Again,
1:50.0	we got there very different ways. But thankfully, on the way home, I was able to do a cash upgrade
1:55.0	to business on the way home through Tokyo to New York, an American, which was fine, I guess.
2:01.8	Wasn't Jal, wasn't A&A, but it was a flat seat.
2:04.5	I was happy.
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