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AvTalk Episode 360: War shuts down Middle East airspace

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we discuss the US-Israeli attack on Iran and Iranian response with an eye on the effects on commercial aviation. Airspace closures, flight cancellations, reroutes, diversions, and how airlines are coping with the rapid changes. Also on this week’s episode, another emergency evacuation with passengers carrying their baggage, the FAA […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 360 of AvTock. I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with Jason Urbanowitz.

0:17.6

Ian, you jinxed it. I did. I'm sorry. You did. You did. I merely alluded to the fact that

0:23.7

there was the potential of possibly having the chair of the NTSB on this week. You just said it

0:31.2

outright. And you know, you can't do that. I tempted the wrath of the thing high atop of the

0:37.0

whatever and look where we are.

0:39.5

So, yeah. What we mean to say is that interview is postponed, once again, turns out that

0:47.9

Jennifer Hominy is a busy person in a busy, important position and sometimes things

0:52.4

unbelievably more important than us come up.

0:56.2

So let's not get ahead of ourselves.

0:57.9

Just other things.

0:58.5

We don't know why.

0:59.5

Yeah, other things come up.

1:00.7

It's no telling how important they are.

1:02.2

But hopefully we will be able to reschedule in the near future this time and get that

1:07.6

interview finally conducted.

1:09.0

But not for lack of having everything else to talk about.

1:15.0

Oh, boy.

1:15.9

You mentioned last week,

1:17.2

hey, should we talk about the ramp up of all the U.S. military aircraft

1:21.7

and equipment going to the Middle East?

1:23.4

And we said, ah, nah, nothing's happened yet.

1:26.2

So we don't really have anything to talk about.

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