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AvTalk Episode 352: It’s the deicing that’ll get ya
New Jan 09, 2026 50 min

AvTalk Episode 352: It’s the deicing that’ll get ya

We begin the year with a mess in Amsterdam as more than 3,000 flights have been canceled at the airport this week following snow storms and a long list of operational problems. We look at the impac...

AvTalk Episode 351: Our favorite conversations from 2025
Jan 02, 2026 34 min

AvTalk Episode 351: Our favorite conversations from 2025

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we’re beginning 2026 by looking back at a pair of our favorite conversations from 2025.  Throughout the year, we focused a lot on the seemingly unending strea...

AvTalk Episode 349: How do you forget about a 737?
Dec 12, 2025 39 min

AvTalk Episode 349: How do you forget about a 737?

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Ian and Jason return from their respective travels to survey this week’s news. We return to India where IndiGo’s meltdown last week left the government none-too-pl...

AvTalk Episode 346: The A340-600 episode
Nov 21, 2025 1h 3m

AvTalk Episode 346: The A340-600 episode

On this episode of AvTalk, the Dubai Airshow wraps up with a long list of major orders and other announcements. The FAA cancels its cancellation order and air traffic in the US returns to pre-gover...

AvTalk Episode 345: Reasonable people
Nov 14, 2025 53 min

AvTalk Episode 345: Reasonable people

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, US airspace held together—barely—with hastily announced cuts to flights at major airports going into effect and air traffic controller staffing triggers peaking on...

AvTalk Episode 344: UPS flight 2976
Nov 07, 2025 37 min

AvTalk Episode 344: UPS flight 2976

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we discuss what we know so far about the crash of UPS Airlines flight 2976 in Louisville. To manage some of the burden on air traffic controllers during the govern...

AvTalk Episode 343: It’s a retention issue
Oct 31, 2025 53 min

AvTalk Episode 343: It’s a retention issue

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we chat with Katherine Moloney, a pilot and founder of Elevate(her) Aviation, an organization dedicated to raising the percentage of women in aviation careers arou...

AvTalk Episode 342: Two statistically improbable events
Oct 24, 2025 33 min

AvTalk Episode 342: Two statistically improbable events

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we discuss two statistically improbable events — an airACT 747 veered off the runway and struck a vehicle before ending up in the sea and a United Airlines 737-8 M...

AvTalk Episode 341: Dry Clean Only
Oct 17, 2025 50 min

AvTalk Episode 341: Dry Clean Only

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Russian president Vladimir Putin admits Russian air defenses damaged Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243 before it crashed near Aktau in Kazakhstan. American Airlines ...

AvTalk Episode 340: Four engines for podcast
Oct 10, 2025 49 min

AvTalk Episode 340: Four engines for podcast

On this episode of AvTalk, we discuss last week’s collision between two Endeavor Air CRJ-900s at La Guardia and what new video tells us about how it happened. Similar to last time the US federal go...

AvTalk Episode 339: What the Nuuk!?
Oct 03, 2025 1h 0m

AvTalk Episode 339: What the Nuuk!?

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we chat with Eliska Hill, Senior Vice President of Cargo for the UK and the rest of the world at Air Partner about the state of the cargo market, where recovery ha...

AvTalk Episode 338: Tunis to Nice, too close
Sep 26, 2025 1h 5m

AvTalk Episode 338: Tunis to Nice, too close

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a Nouvelair flight almost lands on top of an easyJet A320 in Nice. In Aalborg, Copenhagen, and Oslo, reported drone sightings put a halt to flights. And we spend a...

AvTalk Episode 337:  Pay attention, get off the iPad!
Sep 19, 2025 32 min

AvTalk Episode 337: Pay attention, get off the iPad!

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a Spirit Airlines crew is slow to respond to a New York Center controller while in the same airspace as Air Force One, leading to some choice words from the contro...

AvTalk Episode 336: No supernatural demonic force
Sep 12, 2025 1h 4m

AvTalk Episode 336: No supernatural demonic force

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we’re joined by The Up Front editor-in-chief John Walton to discuss the peculiar nature of the Premium Economy cabin on Air Côte d’Ivoire’s new A330neo and the wid...

AvTalk Episode 335: the Plovdiv mystery
Sep 05, 2025 47 min

AvTalk Episode 335: the Plovdiv mystery

On this week’s AvTalk, we discuss European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s flight to Plovdiv—from initial breathless reports talking of circling for hours, using paper maps to land and ...

AvTalk Episode 334: They got Nuuk’d
Aug 29, 2025 40 min

AvTalk Episode 334: They got Nuuk’d

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Nuuk, Greenland cancels international flights after security screeners need additional training. Korean Air signals its intent to purchase more than 100 Boeing air...

AvTalk Episode 333: Whinging about windowless window seats
Aug 22, 2025 39 min

AvTalk Episode 333: Whinging about windowless window seats

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, United and Delta Air Lines face lawsuits for charging extra for window seats without a window. Serbian investigators reveal the extent of damages to a Marathon Air...