United Airlines announced a 270 aircraft narrow-body order today. 🤯🤯
DLD 335: It really was that nice
- May 27, 2021
- Tagged as: 737 MAX, Aerion, BizAv, Boeing, Breeze, Breeze Airways, business aviation, Canada, EWR, FAA, LaGuardia, lawsuit, LGA, Lufthansa, Newark, podcast, routes, Spirit Airlines, strike, supersonic, vaccines, Vancouver
A strike, two lawsuits, one shutdown and another airline launch, plus a production boost. The industry is full of happenings and we’re barely scratching the surface.
DLD 276: The Wuppertal* Episode
- January 23, 2020
- Tagged as: Air Antwerp, American Airlines, ANR, Antwerp, bankruptcy, DCA, Delta Air Lines, Ethiopian Airlines, EWR, FlyBE, high-speed rail, HSR, LATAM, LCY, London, London City, MIA, Miami, Newark, podcast, routes, train, Trip Report, United Airlines, Washington DC, Wuppertal
A quick getaway to Wuppertal was on the agenda this week. It vaguely worked, though none of the three hosts got to or fro exactly as planned.
United teams up with Clear, Southwest leaves Newark and CapOne has a data breach. Plus, a new(ish) airline flying a pretty old little Fokker.
DLD 244: Records, Slots and Partners
- May 23, 2019
- Tagged as: American Airlines, BizAv, Bombardier, business aviation, Dassault, Delta Air Lines, EWR, Gold Passport, Haneda, Hawaiian Airlines, HND, hyatt, JFK, JFK Airport, LCY, London, London City, Newark, routes, Tokyo, TWA, TWA Hotel, United Airlines
Speed records and airport news dominate this week’s show. Some sketchy funding stories, too!
Trip reports from near and far, more MAX and the neo is finally delivered!
Engines, engines, everywhere! Even more of which are now broken. Plus many inaugurals and maybe your biometric security data will be sold to an airline or airport soon.
Will the Singapore-Newark route really fly? Some of us are more skeptical than others. Plus, United’s new elite status for corporations, body scanner cameras for the subway, gentrification sucks, Twitter sucks, US traffic from China tanked and more.
DLD 202: Taking a Brazilian trim
- July 19, 2018
- Tagged as: American Airlines, Brazil, Delta Air Lines, Dubai, DWC, DXB, Emirates, EWR, Gogo, Iran, Newark, Norwegian, PaxEx, Southwest Airlines, Tehran, United Airlines
United Airlines trimmed its assets this quarter owing to the new open skies arrangement with Brazil. Tehran is getting trimmed this summer as well, while . Plus nuts are getting trimmed from Southwest and lots more in this week’s episode!
DLD 196: Some long ones
- June 7, 2018
- Tagged as: Air France, Bombardier, Brussels Airlines, elite status, EWR, IATA, IATAAGM18, Newark, O'Hare, ORD, PaxEx, PIT, Pittsburgh, PVG, Shanghai, SIN, singapore, singapore airlines, Star Alliance, United, United Airlines
We mean long routes, not an extra long episode, so don’t worry too much about that. Then again, some of our conversations are pretty long rambles. Enjoy!