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AvTalk Episode 80: Grinding to a halt

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode of AvTalk, Jason and Ian take stock of how the aviation industry has reacted to plummeting demand and ever changing government restrictions as the COVID-19 pandemic takes its toll. Jason and a few others are maintaining a useful list of airline operations as some airlines reduce their planned schedule by more […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to a special episode of Av Talk I am Ian Petchenck here as always with

0:16.8

Jason Rubinew it's and I think special is probably an odd title for this episode isn't it?

0:23.4

Unfortunate calamitous, uh,

0:27.2

panic?

0:28.2

I'm not there yet.

0:29.4

Okay.

0:30.4

But I would, I would allow the suggestion, I think think so it is the 19th of March in the year

0:36.6

2020 and if you had told me two weeks ago that I would be sitting here talking to you about what we are about to discuss,

0:47.0

I would not have believed you.

0:48.5

Yeah, two weeks even, that seems like a decade ago at this point, doesn't it? Like a totally different world, different industry, different circumstances.

0:57.0

What's happening this week, it's unimaginable.

1:01.0

Minutes have turned into hours have turned into days and you know, when we were talking about the problems facing

1:10.4

the airline industry and the challenges and some of the opportunities that were going to come

1:16.4

out this year and some of the things that we were looking forward to on one of the first

1:19.8

episodes of the year.

1:21.5

That all seems a very distant memory. Yeah, so pretty much at this point

1:26.1

whatever guidance expectations, future hopes, aircraft deliveries, aircraft orders you had in mind for the near or long-term

1:37.4

future, you can just open up your window and toss them right out.

1:42.3

I guess we should talk about where we are. Where are we? I don't know how to answer that question.

1:49.2

Okay, let's let's do this. Let's do this.

1:53.0

talk about kind of the global situation and then we can look at some individual airlines.

2:02.0

You are a good friend Seth Miller, John Ostauer,

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