AvTalk Episode 368: Humanoids handling your bags?

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🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, the NTSB’s preliminary report on the crash at La Guardia Airport in New York lays out the avenues of investigation and spurs the Port Authority to action. FedEx says it will put the MD-11 back into service in May, but the FAA still needs to weigh in. US low cost carriers are pitching the government on a $2.5 billion support package, while Spirit negotiates separately for an increasingly unlikely $500 million loan.
Alaska Airlines launches its first European service, while American Airlines returns to Venezuela for the first time since 2019. American and Southwest roll out special liveries ahead of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Plus, this month in Tokyo, humanoid robots could soon be handling your bags.
And we mark a special week at Flightradar24 as Fredrik Lindahl passes the CEO baton to Andreas Schorling.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* NTSB preliminary report on LGA collision
* Reporting on FedEx MD-11s via FreightWaves
* Southwest’s Independence One
* Welcoming Andreas Schorling as Flightradar24’s new CEO

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 368 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with.
0:16.5	Jason Erbinowitz. How are you, Ian? I'm well, Jason. How are you, sir? I'm good. I'm excited that my
0:22.6	microphone failed only several seconds into our first take of the podcast and not several minutes.
0:28.4	So, hey, we get a fresh start and no one will ever know what we said the first time.
0:33.5	We got so far into it the first time around. But hopefully we can make it through this time.
0:39.0	And if we can't, well, then no one will ever know because we'll just...
0:41.5	No one will know.
0:42.2	It'll be our little secret.
0:43.9	Exactly.
0:44.7	But I tried to really draw out that always this week because...
0:49.1	I heard that.
0:50.3	We're celebrating a huge milestone at Flight Raider 24 this week.
0:53.4	And we have a very special listener
0:55.3	who usually listens to us more quickly because of technological advancements.
1:02.3	I wanted to draw things out so that it lasted just a little bit longer.
1:06.2	I'm talking about our now former CEO, Frederick Lindahl, who after 14 years as CEO, is switching
1:16.6	roles at Playvator 24. He is a member of the board of directors and will continue to help
1:22.7	provide strategic vision to the company, but he's stepping out of the day-to-day role as CEO.
1:29.3	And after 14 years, so from me, from Jason, from all of us, Frederick, thank you so very
1:35.7	much for all that you've done for giving me a shot and giving Jason and I a chance to do this
1:42.9	podcast that we've been doing now for 368-plus episodes.
1:48.3	So we're supremely grateful for that.
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