New cabins, new partners, and new fuels are just a few of the major investments airlines announced that we’re talking about in this week’s episode.

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

Some terribly dorky jokes get us started this week, but eventually we manage to transition to terribly dorky conversations about airplanes, so that’s mostly a win.

Sure, the conversations were great, but our plans for birthday festivities came up short.