AvTalk Episode 365: Bag fees, bag fees, bag fees
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
US airlines are hiking bag fees across the board and United Airlines is introducing basic premium fares. And in Brisbane, one particular jet bridge really had it out for a pair of 737s.
Helpful links for this week’s episode
* How NASA’s Optical Communications System (O2O) works
* NASA’s test cat “Taters”
* Photos from the Artemis II mission
* United Airlines’ new basic business class fares
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 365 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik here as always with Jason Rubinowitz. Ian, we are so close to having an episode of this podcast for every single day |
| 0:22.8 | of the year. Isn't that something? It's definitely something. If you include the special episodes, |
| 0:27.7 | we have one for every single day of the year. I dare you. Way back when? Go back. Listen to every |
| 0:32.5 | one of them for every day. Just start now and you'll be done by next year. But yeah, we've done 360 some odd episodes |
| 0:41.5 | because there's a few special episodes in there that don't count in the numbering. But if you |
| 0:46.3 | think way back when, when the max was grounded, we did a whole special episode on that and some |
| 0:50.9 | other things. So lots and lots to look back on. If you haven't revisited the back |
| 0:56.0 | catalog in a while, there's always some good stuff in there, especially some of those really |
| 0:59.8 | interesting interviews. So head back that away and see what you can find. Jason, you know what else |
| 1:06.0 | is really cool? A lot of things, particularly I think I know where you're going with this, |
| 1:10.8 | spaceships are pretty cool. This this, spaceships are pretty cool. |
| 1:12.3 | This week's spaceships are pretty cool. |
| 1:14.2 | We don't talk about space much because airplanes don't typically go into space. |
| 1:19.3 | Typically leaves open a wide berth to, it's happened that they've gone into space. |
| 1:25.4 | And I would like to learn more about that from you at a later |
| 1:28.2 | date. But let's stick to what's happening right now, where we have last week already, |
| 1:35.8 | the Artemis II mission launched for the flyby of the moon. So a bunch of records, including |
| 1:43.3 | the farthest humans have ever been from the |
| 1:45.8 | earth and the longest mission time around the moon and all sorts of good fun stuff. This week, |
| 1:52.2 | now they're on their way back. They'll splash down off the coast of California on Friday. |
| 1:58.0 | If everything goes to plan, it'll be about Friday evening local time off the coast |
| 2:02.0 | of California. There was some pretty interesting aircraft tracking the departure. So not only |
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