On this episode of Av Talk, air traffic in China is down 80% since the beginning of the year.

The first Air France A380 enters retirement,

and Air New Zealand may have found a way to make ultra- long-haul economy a little less terrible. Hello and welcome to episode 78 of Av Talk I am Ian Petchnick here as always

with Jason Rabinowitz and hello Ian we're getting curiously close to a hundred episodes almost.

We are getting curiously close to a hundred episodes.

Who would have thought?

Not me, not certainly not me. But we're getting there thanks to the support of

listeners like you like me no you know I don't listen the opposite of listeners right right right

yes you listen to what what episode were one for 78 so far?

One I think when I wasn't there. The one you weren't there for. Well, yeah, we do what we can.

Mm-hmm. Make sure we didn't say anything bad about you.

No, no, I mean you did, but you know, I'll let it go.

You should hear what we say about you when you're here.

Mm, I'm not listening.

So the past couple weeks were busy and the next couple weeks for you, sir, sound like they will be even busier.

Yeah, I got some fun stuff and some work stuff rolled into one.

Um, headed out to Seattle on Alaska driving up to Vancouver with our good friend Jeremy Dwyer Lingren who's been on the show a number of times and then we're basically joyriding on some Beach 1900s, a couple different varieties from Vancouver to

Campbell River, I think it is, one on Central Mountain Air and the other on the way back on who is it I believe Pacific Coastal yeah

Pacific Coastal why you know that and I don't is beyond being

flying back on jet blue and then I basically turn around and go out to London on

B.A. on American and come back on B.A. from Gatwick, which will be new for me.

That'll be interesting. Are you doing the bus or the train to Gellick? Funny enough, I'm coming from Heathrow, so I kind of have to take the bus.

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