Long flights, jet lag, and do pilots need to sleep on a trip, too?
Halfway through a long trip and still suffering from jetlag, but there’s news to consider and punditry to ponder, so here we go…
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.
New seats, new routes, and a comeback of quality flooring round out this week’s top stories.
This week’s episode is a little different. It’s just Fozz and Stephan, as Seth is soaking in all the avgeekery he can at the Dubai Airshow and there hasn’t been a ton of news. But, some of the highlights are:
Opening back up is great, but the inconsistencies are hard to handle. So are the lines.
We’re not flying for real so the new MS Flight Sim might be a useful replacement. Plus, regionals shutting down, destinations dropped and a union squeeze.
Hot weather across the country and some hot topics for discussion on this week’s show, like new partnerships, furloughs and retirements.
A new alliance affiliation, a new secondary cities airline in the USA and unblocking EuroBiz middles: What does it all mean?!?
