737MAX – Dots, Lines & Destinations

Catching up on some reader mail, and also on big changes coming in airports served, meals on board, and vaguely boring partnerships.

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DLD 367: A Farewell to R32s

January 13, 2022
Tagged as: 5G, 737 MAX, 737 MAX 7, 737 MAX 8200, 737MAX, Air India, Allegiant, Boeing, FRA, frankfurt, ITA Airlines, lawsuit, Lufthansa Group, PEOPLExpress, podcast, Ryanair, special guest

Slightly bizarre to have the lead topic for an aviation podcast to be a subway story, but we’ve never really been a normal group. Plus, we’ve got Jason on to talk about that and many other airplane-related bits.

DLD 324: Fraud, Funding, and Settlements

January 14, 2021
Tagged as: 737 MAX, 737-500, 737MAX, amtrak, Boeing, CARES Act, Department of Justice, DOJ, lawsuit, Malta, marriott, New York City, Spirit Airlines

Join us for a walk down memory lane, triggered by some things we screwed up in our previous episode. Plus CARES2, Boeing, Spirit and More.

As has happened several times since the pandemic began airlines are shaking up their route maps with idea so crazy they just might work. So which new destinations will work this time around??

Where have all the cool planes gone? If you frequently find yourself wondering about that JetTip.net might help with some answers, at least in the US and Canada.

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DLD 320: MAXimum effort

December 10, 2020
Tagged as: 737 MAX, 737MAX, American Airlines, drones, grounding, photography, special guest

Is it a race to be first, or just normal business to get the planes back into the sky? Just one of many questions surrounding the 737 MAX return to service now that the grounding has been lifted in the USA.

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DLD 314: Shut your Pi hole

October 22, 2020
Tagged as: 737 MAX, 737MAX, American Airlines, China, Delta Air Lines, earnings, Eastern Airlines, elite status, frequent flier, frequent flyer, Hong Kong, routes, Taiwan, United Airlines

Earnings season is back, with billions burned and little in the way of optimism for the industry. But traffic continues to increase and route networks adjust, with airlines trying to capture whatever bits of the market they can.

No, that’s not a typo. We’re mourning the loss of the Convair 580s from commercial service, now slated for next year, among many other things in this week’s episode.