AvTalk Episode 364: Emergency management mode
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Major leadership changes are coming at Air Canada and IndiGo and Jason nominates Ian for IATA director general. And it’s a busy week for new special liveries.
Helpful links for this week’s episode
* SAS’ 80th anniversary livery
* JetBlue’s Blueprint II
* Lufthansa’s 100th anniversary employee livery
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 364 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik here as always with |
| 0:15.8 | Jason Rivenowitz back in front of my actual microphone at my actual apartment on an actual Wednesday. |
| 0:22.6 | Still recording slightly earlier than usual, but what could possibly change in the next 30 minutes |
| 0:27.5 | before the time we normally record you? Nothing. You just had to say something, didn't you? |
| 0:32.5 | It's only half an hour. So half an hour from now we'll still be recording. So it'll probably be fine. Yeah, |
| 0:39.0 | that's one way of... That's definitely how that works. Thinking about it. Yes. Well, I'm glad you're |
| 0:44.5 | back. I'm glad you made it back safely from the United Grand Adventure. And I hope that you had |
| 0:51.4 | some good travels back. And the lengthy TSA lines weren't too unkind to you. |
| 0:57.2 | Though L.A.x hadn't been. |
| 0:58.7 | No, I did quite a bit of flying above average during that whole mess and never encountered any line at all, I think, between Liguardia, Newark, Lark, LAX, not so much as more than a five-minute |
| 1:14.5 | wait. So knock on wood there, never managed to find myself in Austin or Houston where lines |
| 1:20.4 | were multiple hours long, even for pre-check. So thankful to not have run into any of that and that it seems to be |
| 1:28.9 | behind us for now, this time? For now. For now. And hopefully things continue to improve, |
| 1:36.0 | but we will keep an eye on it to see if it flares up again and bring you more on that story. At some point, unfortunately, I am nearly |
| 1:48.9 | sure. Yes, the U.S., we don't really have strikes of airline or really government personnel like |
| 1:55.7 | they do in Europe, but we have funding lapses because we can't agree on anything. So, |
| 2:00.5 | kind of like a strike, but |
| 2:01.9 | worse, because you don't schedule it in advance. So hopefully things return more towards |
| 2:08.3 | the normal side. It's going to take a while to get back to normal, given how many callouts there |
| 2:13.2 | have been, and given how many TSA screeners have quit over 500, which is a lot because even if they get paid tomorrow, they're not coming back. And if you were in the market for a new job, would you want to work for the TSA or really federal government at all where you could just not get paid for months at a time. And essentially have to work. |
| 2:35.4 | Yeah, not great. |
| 2:36.8 | Yeah. |
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