Hello and welcome to episode 369 of AvTalk.

I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with.

Jason Urbanowitz, nice lead-in to that one.

That was a good always- with. I feel good about

that one. I feel like we're on firm footing for the rest of the episode now. Yeah, there's only downhill from here then. Wait, no, you said this is going to be a good episode. I mean, oh, it's going to be a good episode. I am traveling for work once again, but my Wi-Fi is stable because I'm not at a hotel. I'm in a recording suite.

It's like sound treated. So if I clap, there's no echo, it's the ideal scenario. So I assume

the power is going to go out in like 20 minutes. Something has to happen. Something has to happen.

Those are just the rules. Because I had a miraculous easy flight on the way down here, what you know does not happen. Something has to happen. Those are just the rules. Because I had a miraculous easy flight

on the way down here, what you know does not happen for me. No, this was the cursed root and you were

not cursed. Hold on. Hold on. Wait a second. There's a lot going on this week that's feeling very

off because you made it from LaGuardia to Dulles without issue. You're in a

recording space. I haven't made a home yet. Okay. But there's also breaking news before we hit stop

on the recording. We're even recording slightly earlier than we usually do. This is bizarre.

That tomorrow getting home is going to suck.

I'm using all of our positive energy now.

We're using it all up.

So hopefully by the time the podcast comes out on Friday, Jason's still in one piece.

Hi.

Well, let's head up to Maribel, where Airbus teased a last-minute major announcement, told

everybody, get to Montreal by 2 p.m. or else. And there was a lot of speculation that we

were about to hear about the A220, 500. But it seems that that's not the case, but nonetheless

a very interesting announcement. Air Asia has ordered 150 A220300. That is a firm order,

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