What Next TBD: Why Flying Is So Bad Now

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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U.S. air travel is being strained on all sides—travel demand is back to 2019 levels, but the number of pilots and planes and ground crew hasn’t caught back up, and a rash of close calls are raising safety concerns about America’s aging flying infrastructure. Guest: Jon Ostrower, editor in chief of The Air Current. Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:30.8	Hey, everyone. Just a quick warning here. You're going to hear an air traffic controller swear.
0:36.2	Okay, here's the show.
0:46.3	Up to 1943, 1-3-3501-8, that's 2-4, running 4 left, 5'4-5-4-5-4-5-4.
0:57.4	On the evening of January 13th, on the evening of January 13th, JFK Airport in New York was operating normally.
1:00.9	The tower controllers gave various flights their instructions.
1:04.9	Here's what the winds like, go to this runway, get ready for takeoff.
1:12.8	And a Delta flight, Flight 1943, bound for the Dominican Republic, was getting ready to take off on runway four left.
1:18.9	But then, something very out of the ordinary happened, causing the controller to swear.
1:23.4	Delta 1943 canceled takeoff plans.
1:27.3	Delta 1943 canceled takeoff plans. He's telling the Delta 43 cancel takeoff plans.
1:31.2	He's telling the Delta plane to abort takeoff because another plane, an American Airlines jet headed for London,
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