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DLD 403: White tails, new deals, and new lines

• September 22, 2022
• Tagged as: 737MAX, American Airlines, AMS, Boeing, Boom Supersonic, California, China, codeshare, Delta Air Lines, dining, Doha, electric aircraft, Emirates, France, Heart, Horizon Air, London, meals, podcast, Ryanair, San Francisco, Schiphol, SFO, strike, Tailwind, union, United Airlines, ZipAir

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 402: Three planes you’ll probably never fly. Or maybe four.

• September 15, 2022
• Tagged as: Aeroflot, Airbus, Alaska Airlines, bagtag, Boeing, Boom, Boom Supersonic, Companion Pass, EWR, frequent flier, frequent flyer, IATA, Irkut, ITA Airlines, Italy, JFK, JFK Airport, MC-21, New York City, Newark, NFTs, Russia, Southwest Airlines, SSJ100, sukhoi, Tupelov, United Airlines

Can Russia produce more than 300 commercial aircraft by the end of the decade to backfill the Boeing and Airbus frames that will be inoperable by then? And would you fly on one if they do??

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DLD 398: A great American hero? Or zero?

• August 25, 2022
• Tagged as: 737 MAX, American Airlines, Boeing, Boom Supersonic, business class, cargo, Changi, Emirates, engines, Ethiopian Airlines, Faroe Islands, first class, Hertz, podcast, premium cabin, Rolls Royce, routes, Russia, SIN, singapore, supersonic, transcon, United Airlines, WizzAir

So much news from American we might have to rebrand the show. But lots of other goodies, too.

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• Trip Reports

DLD 394: Farnborough Follow-up

• July 28, 2022
• Tagged as: 737 MAX 10, A320neo, A321neo, A321XLR, Air Canada, Airbus, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Boeing, Boom, Boom Supersonic, business class, Delta Air Lines, E195-E2, earnings, EasyJet, Embraer, engines, eVTOL, Farnborough, FIA2022, frequent flier, frequent flyer, Heathrow, hydrogen, joint venture, LATAM, points, Porter Air, Trip Report, United Airlines

Despite being one of the slowest major air shows for new order announcements in years, Farnborough 2022 offered plenty of news.

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DLD 371: Snowed in

• February 3, 2022
• Tagged as: 737 MAX, 777X, American Airlines, Antarctica, Boeing, Boom Supersonic, British Airways, Cyprus, freighter, Greece, JFK, JFK Airport, Kalitta, lounges, podcast, Qatar Airways, Turkey

With a blizzard bearing down we’re reliving prior diversions and other cold weather travel tales, all the way to Antarctica.

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DLD 368: Not so far flung

• January 20, 2022
• Tagged as: 777X, Boeing, Boom, Boom Supersonic, Cathay Pacific, Delta Air Lines, Emirates, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, Finnair, Hong Kong, JFK, JFK Airport, New York City, Overture, podcast, routes, supersonic, TWA Hotel, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, XB-1

We shouldn’t be here right now. We should all be there. But we aren’t. And we don’t even really know where “there” is. A most interesting predicament.

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DLD 337: The Tropics of New England

• June 10, 2021
• Tagged as: AirBaltic, American Airlines, Boom, Boom Supersonic, Breeze Airways, COVID-19, COVID19, credit card, credit cards, cruise, Delta Air Lines, Emirates, inaugural, iOS, iPhone, JFK, JFK Airport, podcast, points, routes, supersonic, Trip Report, TSA, United Airlines, United Kingdom

Summer is heating up in more ways than one. Booking rooms in some destinations is dicey and seems unlikely to get better any time soon.

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DLD 303: It’s Just Zoom

• August 6, 2020
• Tagged as: A318, Airbus, Boeing, Boom, Boom Supersonic, British Airways, ExpressJet, Finnair, IAG, IATA, International Airline Group, podcast, refunds, regional jets, Rolls Royce, special guest, supersonic, United Airlines

Schedules slashed, Inflight magazines fly home and hundreds of millions in refunds. Plus, we nerd out with special guest Pizza in Motion about RV life.