On this episode of Av Talk, we discuss Aira Flot Flight 1492 in Moscow, Miami Air's Runway

Excursion in Jacksonville, a few new liveries, and Jason heads to Italy. Next week we'll have a special extended conversation with the Air Currents,

editor-in-chief John Ostrower about the 737 Max

and the steady drip of news about how the airplane was developed

and what Boeing is doing to get it back in the air. Hello and

Hello and welcome to episode 57 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchnick here as always with Jason Rabbinowitz. Hello Ian. Hello Jason. I am here in Chicago as always as always.

As always. You sir are not in New York. No I am in Florence Italy. I will be in Rome tomorrow and flying back on Alitalia on their new route to Washington

Delis on Friday, so that's exciting.

Because your life is difficult and your life is

hard and I have what's the word I'm looking for?

Sympathy for you, sir.

Oh, well, thank you.

This particular week has not been so terrible.

I cleared my schedule for a last minute trip.

I was thankful enough that I didn't have anything major and said

yeah what the hell I'll go have some pasta in Italy because so what could be worse?

What was the impetus for this particular trip?

It's as I just, that Alitalia launched a brand new route to Washington Dulles Airport.

So Milan to Dulles, it's a new route for Al-Talia, one of their few new long haul routes as of late, and they wanted to generate

some buzz that, hey, we have a new route.

So I am helping them create such buzz by, you know, flying on a flight and then going home.

The airline industry is a strange business.

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