The Next Trip - An Aviation and Travel Podcast

To divert or not to divert, that is the question for Doug and crew over the North Atlantic. Drew and Doug discuss diversion decisions from flight and station operations perspectives. On this episode we also discuss:
Cargo airlines lose some business with e-commerce coming off COVID highs
Southwest recovers from crew scheduling woes
Porter Airlines get its first EMB195-E2 with up to 100 more coming. We said the “E2" and the A220 would be big stories in 2023
California irrops with SFO diversions due to an “atmospheric river" of rains and a San Diego fuel shortage
Free Wi-Fi on Delta...is this a trend?

We end the episode with an email from listener, Gordon, about his trip on a Continental DC10 with a pub onboard for all customers.

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Doug and Drew were on flip flop and laptop trips this week (we'll explain) with Doug being best man and wedding cruise director and Drew working LAX Ops. We also discuss:
ITA ownership and Italian government control
Boeing betting on China despite a trade war
Embraer 195-E2 vs 737 Max 7
We end the episode talking about how failures got us to where we are.
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Doug and Drew ring in the holiday season with our rendition of Home for the Holidays - don’t worry, its just the first two verses. Where exactly was Karen Carpenter when she was singing about people coming and going through Pennsylvania for some homemade pumpkin pie? PHL, PIT, or MEM? We tank dive which airport she was in and which airline. Also on this episode.
The traffic is terrific - heavy load factors this week
How NOT to run a Winter Operation
Frontier’s Unlimited Flight Pass
5G interference with aircraft and radio altimeter replacements
Jetblue plans flights to Paris - bring on the A321XLR’s
Cathay Pacific starting to ramp up again
Air India brings Vistara and Air Asia India under its brand
Whether you’re connecting at PHL, ATL, DFW, or ORD for the holidays, you can’t beat home sweet home. Thanks for spending part of your holidays with us!
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Doug was in Hawaii for Thanksgiving but got out before Mauna Loa erupted. We discuss how volcanic ash affects aircraft engines and review some near-disasters where 747’s lost all 4 engines due to eruptions around the world. Also:
TSA screened over 2.5 million passengers last Sunday, the most since the start of the pandemic
Saudi Arabia announces the launch of RIA, a new airline based in Riyadh, to compete with the ME 3
New low fare airline Fly Atlantic will be based in Belfast, Northern Ireland and fly transatlantic
We look at the gaps in Boeing’s new product launches: 757 to 777 to 787 to ???.

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This episode is all about ULCC’s with Travis Christ, Head of Avelo Marketing, joining the show. We were supposed to fly on Avelo’s inaugural from Orlando to Dubuque, Iowa but the flight was canceled due to DBQ Airport still establishing their security plan. Avelo had an awesome recovery effort which led to Travis joining the show. He tells us all about the new airline and about his path from ramper to airline executive.

Doug and Drew proceed with our ULCC run with plans to fly Avelo soon. We take you along for the ride which in avgeek Morse code is:
SFO-EWR-MCO-BNA-CID-DEN-SFO.
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